The Huffington Post had a special featuring the funniest protest signs from this year. This one obviously takes the cake... the rest can be seen here and are well worth your time.
Speaking of protests, I made my way over Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus today for a rally protesting budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs, and tuition increases to the UC system... While I expected a few hundred protesters, it turns out the police estimated that there were about 5,000 union workers, staff, faculty, and students there. Many professors cancelled class and hundreds of students staged walkouts in solidarity with the striking unions.
The rally began noon and by 2pm the crowd had begun marching through the UC Berkeley campus, eventually making its way to Addison & Shattuck, where it stalled traffic for roughly 30 minutes before moving back up to Bancroft & Telegraph where it held a sit-in for a good portion of the afternoon. As of 8:30pm organizers had occupied Wheeler Hall and chained the doors shut as they contemplate their next moves.
Newsworthy coverage of the event can be found here and here. The website for the protest organizers can be found here. The website for UC President and budget-cut extraodinaire Mark Yudof can be found here.
Below are pictures from the rally at Upper Sproul Plaza and the march through campus taken from my mediocre camera-phone...
Speaking of protests, I made my way over Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus today for a rally protesting budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs, and tuition increases to the UC system... While I expected a few hundred protesters, it turns out the police estimated that there were about 5,000 union workers, staff, faculty, and students there. Many professors cancelled class and hundreds of students staged walkouts in solidarity with the striking unions.
The rally began noon and by 2pm the crowd had begun marching through the UC Berkeley campus, eventually making its way to Addison & Shattuck, where it stalled traffic for roughly 30 minutes before moving back up to Bancroft & Telegraph where it held a sit-in for a good portion of the afternoon. As of 8:30pm organizers had occupied Wheeler Hall and chained the doors shut as they contemplate their next moves.
Newsworthy coverage of the event can be found here and here. The website for the protest organizers can be found here. The website for UC President and budget-cut extraodinaire Mark Yudof can be found here.
Below are pictures from the rally at Upper Sproul Plaza and the march through campus taken from my mediocre camera-phone...
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