Student Protests Boiling Over
as Marchers Head to Sacramento
Demonstrating for social and economic justice, protesters began a 4-day march from Oakland to Sacramento yesterday in a quest to restore cuts to education and social services. Photo by Eric Louie, Media Workers Guild.
By Eric Louie, via Media Workers Guild.
March 2, 2012
The weather was ominous Thursday morning as Bay Area Occupiers for Education prepared to spend four days marching to Sacramento in a call to educate 100 percent of the 99 percent.
But by an early afternoon kick-off rally at Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza, the skies cleared. No other rains are expected for the trip that will culminate Monday when thousands rally at the State Capitol.
Communication Workers of America and other union organizers plan to join the students in a show of solidarity aimed at building momentum for an American Spring of protests — culminating May 1 in what some envision as an international “general strike,” even if the “strike” is largely symbolic.
“It’s not time to be begging anymore, folks,” said Peter Brown, 61, a machine technology teacher at Laney College, to the few hundred gathered at the plaza. Protesters will rally support for the