No cuts, no fees, education must be free!’
Published Mar 16, 2012 10:33 PM
 WW photo: Judy Greensapn |
Outraged by cuts in funding and the tripling of tuition at community colleges and state universities, students, faculty and other educators held protests throughout California on March 1. The local actions culminated four days later in a statewide demonstration in Sacramento and a brief sit-in, led by Occupy for Education forces, in the Capitol rotunda.
More than 50 people had marched the 99 miles from Oakland’s Oscar Grant Plaza, the center for Occupy Oakland, holding rallies in several cities along the way. Demanding full funding for grades K-12 as well as higher education, they joined with thousands of students and education activists from all over California in
