September 2011 Archives
to galvanize students in protest against the disfranchisement of their comrades' access to public education. But opposition to race and sex discrimination at CAL continues to build.
Hundreds of affirmative action demonstrators, dressed in black, on Sproul Plaza Tuesday, c/o Berkeleyside. Photo: Tracey Taylor
A newly-formed multicultural student group executed a die-in on Tuesday to protest the Berkeley College Republican bake sale (resurrected from previous examples), designed to defeat pending state affirmative action legislation.
"When you see that there is such a large power that's overtly oppressing, then that calls for coalition building because, clearly, individually it's not working. This is why we gotta come together, to show this is not just an individual issue, but it's a collective issue, a systemic issue. -- demonstrator Ruben Canedo
On September 11, 2011 it is important that we do not allow racist hate mongers to be the only voices speaking to the media and to the world. We will counter the forces blaming immigrants and Muslims for cutbacks in social services, rising unemployment and continuing wars.
"It will be
healthy for people to know there isn't a saviour in the White House. We have to
build the movement we want. And the strategy can't be trying to wake up one
person." --
(photo: Shadia Fayne Wood/Tar Sands Action)
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