It took a bake sale...

By Curt Wechsler, The World Can't Wait on September 29, 2011 4:40 PM |
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

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