Saturday, March 31, 2012

Oakland school-closure protest leads to 10 arrests

Oakland school-closure protest leads to 10 arrests:


Oakland school-closure protest leads to 10 arrests

Clifton Harrison, who has two grandchildren at Lakeview Elementary, says the school board is ignoring the community.
The Oakland school board voted Thursday to lease out a soon-to-be closed elementary school after the end of this school year despite an angry protest 12 hours earlier that resulted in 10 arrests.
The demonstration, organized by an activist group called By Any Means Necessary to protest the planned closure of five city schools and the board's plan to lease some sites or allow charter schools on others, forced the school board Wednesday night to


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3 protesters arrested at UC Regents meeting

UCLA student Matthew Sandoval yells at UC police before being handcuffed.
Three protesters were arrested Thursday at the UC Board of Regents meeting, when a few dozen activists, some stripped down to swimsuits, called for more transparency in state funding talks and an end to tuition hikes.
The students used the public comments portion of the meeting held at UCSF to accuse the regents and UC President Mark Yudof of being out of touch with student needs and questioned Yudof's support of a tax initiative that protesters say would not truly benefit public


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