UC Berkeley Seals Off Occupied Campus Farm « Student Activism

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UC Berkeley Seals Off Occupied Campus Farm

by Angus Johnston

University of California administrators have been moving on several different fronts this week to end the occupation of the Gill Tract, a 15-acre experimental farm not far from the UC Berkeley campus.
Activists have been occupying the farm since April 22. As one occupation organizer puts it,

The University of California’s public mission as a Land Grant institution is to promote community involvement and initiatives in agriculture. Nonetheless, institutional attempts to ensure the university fulfills this promise have not been successful. It is only with the recent land occupation that the University has proposed to hold a series of workshops to explore the possibilities for “metropolitan agricultural initiatives” on the Gill Tract.

But the university has refused to move forward with those initiatives until the occupiers leave the land, and over

Quebec Student Strike Rolls On

by Angus Johnston

Students in the Canadian province of Quebec have overwhelmingly rejected the government’s proposal to end their three-month strike.
Amid concerns that the offer did little to keep tuition rates down and claims by student negotiators that the government altered the plan without their consent, students at campus after campus have rejected the deal, leaving the provincial government and the student unions back at square one and putting the spring semester in peril.
Anti-strike students at one college obtained a court injunction on Wednesday calling on their school to re-open,