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. Pérez 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 |
Occupy Cal 11/9/11 PART 1
