11 November 2011

Violence Against Berkeley Students

My nephew witnessed the brutality he's reporting on here and I feel it needs to meet a wider audience.  Please re-post, respond, resend to anyone and everyone you can think of.  It is our right and responsibility to speak out against injustice in this country, we shouldn't be beaten into submission.  We are supposed to be living in a DEMOCRACY, aren't we? 
 
Please take 10 minutes of your time to help California students:
Although the Penn State rape scandal and Rick Perry's debate blunder dominated the news cycle this past 48 hours, there is a much more horrifying story being pushed to the side. I was on The UC Berkeley campus when STUDENTS were assaulted and beaten by UCPD and Alameda County Sheriffs. Among the many students arrested was my English professor Celeste Langan, and Nobel prize winning Poet Laureate Robert Haas. These elderly, meek professors were arrested for placing their bodies between the students and the cops batons. Somehow, that qualifies as "resisting arrest."

PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST STUDENTS TO GO UNCHECKED. I am asking that you take 10 minutes to first read the link below explaining why the students are protesting, then watch the video of the UC response. I have provided below the E-mail addresses of some people who need to know your opinion on the manner. You do not have to agree with the protestors, or even be political to be against violence. What if the small girl who is hit first in the video was your child? Look and see what happened to these kids and voice your opinion! If you don't do it, no one else will.

If you do not want to write a letter, please forward this e-mail along.

Thank you for your time,
-Patrick Gartner, Junior at UC Berkeley

Links:
1) The protest was to send a message to the UC Regents. Over the past two years, the Regents cut staff and wages, increased tuition and gave themselves raises in the mean time. Now they want to increase tuition another 81%. If that was your tax-rate, you would probably march too.


2) This is a video of police beating students. I was personally there to witness this interaction. The cops said they needed to clear the fields to take down the tents, but this is a lie. At the time this happened the tents were already down! Also, I don't see tent poles in anyone's hands.


Voice Your Feelings as Citizens, Activists, Parents and or Tax-Payers.
 
EMAIL THE GOVERNOR DIRECTLY HERE: http://gov.ca.gov/m_contact.php
 
Addresses: Send a letter to one, some or all please! It only takes a few minutes.
EX OFFICIO REGENTS
Jerry Brown
Governor of California
State
Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-2841

Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor
State Capitol, Room 1114
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-8994
John A. PĂ©rez

Speaker of the Assembly
State Capitol, Room 219
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249
Mark G. Yudof
President of the University
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200

(510) 987-9074
Tom Torlakson
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
1430 N Street, Suite 5602
Sacramento, CA 95814-5901

(916) 319-0800

Bruce Hallett
Alumni Regent
(President, Alumni
Associations of UC)
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 987-9220

Lori Pelliccioni
Alumni Regent
(Vice President, Alumni
Associations of UC)
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220

APPOINTED REGENTS
Richard C. Blum
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 987-9220
David Crane
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
William De La Pena, M.D.
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Russell Gould
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin St., 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 987-9220
Eddie Island
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street
12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 987-9220
Odessa Johnson
P.O. Box 580595
Modesto, CA 95358
(209) 521-0887
George Kieffer
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street
12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Sherry L. Lansing, Chairman
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street
12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Monica Lozano
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street
12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Hadi Makarechian
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
George Marcus
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Alfredo Mireles, Jr.
Student Regent
University
of California, San Francisco
500 Parnassus Ave. MU-232 East
San Francisco, CA 94143-0244
Norman Pattiz
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Bonnie Reiss
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Fred Ruiz
Ruiz Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 37
Dinuba, CA 93618
(800) 477-6474
Leslie Tang Schilling
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin St., 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 987-9220
Bruce D. Varner, Vice Chair
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin St., 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Paul Wachter
Main Street Advisors
3110 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405

(310) 392-7607
Charlene Zettel
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff
1111 Franklin St., 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
REGENTS DESIGNATES
Ronald Rubenstein
Alumni Regent-designate
(Secretary, Alumni
Associations of UC)
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Alan Mendelson
Alumni Regent-designate
(Treasurer, Alumni
Associations of UC)
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Jonathan Stein
Student Regent-designate
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES
Robert Anderson
Chair, Academic Senate
University of California
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200

(510) 987-9303
Robert Powell
Vice Chair, Academic Senate
University of California
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
(510) 987-0711


STAFF ADVISORS
Penny Herbert
Staff Advisor Program
Human Resources and Benefits
1111 Franklin St., 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200

(510) 987-0217
Kevin Smith
Staff Advisor Program
Human Resources and Benefits
1111 Franklin St., 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
(510) 987-0217

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