terça-feira, março 09, 2010

Map of actions done on March 4th: Day of Action to Defend Public Education [in USA]


Publicado por Nelson Fraga

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Actions of the national day of strike and protest in the U.S. disse...

March 4 was a national day of strike and protest in the U.S. under the slogan "Defend Public Education". Recently there have been major cuts in public funding coupled with increases in the price of tuition. In California there was a 33% increase in tuition fees this year.

Actions:

Milwaukee-pacific protest ends in 16 arrested
Web: http://sds-mke.blogspot.com

New Orleans-poster hanging from the University in solidarity with protests
History (with photo): http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100113201615185

Berkeley (California) - big protest, groups of school students jumped the fences of their middle schools (Brit Eng: secondary schools) to join the march
Story: http://www.forstudentpower.org/blog/2010/03/04/march-4-quick-update-berkeley

Davis (California) - Protests blocked transport
Video. http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-416217

Irvine (California) - Students briefly occupied the library
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fenominal/sets/72157623557493556

Santa Cruz (California) - Protesters blocked the entrances to the building, several cars collided with the crowd.
Story (with photos and video): http://occupyca.wordpress.com

Los Angeles (California) - Sit-in, all participants released without charge
Fresno (California) - 32 people occupied the administration offices
New School (New York) - The administration building was occupied
Press: http://reoccupied.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/suny-purchase-occupied
Video: http://www.twitvid.com/80FCC

Hunter (New York) - Concentration with hundreds of participants, a lot of destruction inside the University, a lot of police infiltration and (allegedly) the Trotskyists. In the end there were 3 or 4 arrested.
Story (with photos and videos): http://takethecity.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/march-4th-ny

Brooklyn College (New York) - poster hanging and self-organized classes
Photo: http://takethecity.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/img_0782.jpg

There were also protests with hundreds of protesters in Seattle and Washington and larger protests in Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey Bay and San Diego (California).
Videos of San Francisco: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/socialist-worker
Videos of San Diego: http://www.youtube.com/justiceucsd

09 março, 2010 04:19

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