me and giant woman on the wall (via thelustlizardofmelancho lycove)
Student demonstrators at Berkely continue to protest unfair tuition hikes. (photo:Paul Sakuma/Associated Press)
We need to shoot at three locations, including our offices. We’ll be using the images in our brochures, as well as the website and maybe for some press ads - can you do it on Friday next week (weather permitting). We have a budget of £150.
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The problem isn’t the clients. It’s the fucking idiots who take jobs like these.
Richard, me, and Domo.
I had much to say. I wanted to rush home from the protest and write a long, insightful post about today’s action but I was too worn out. I ended up calling my oldest sister only to break down crying on the phone in the middle of Rite Aid when everything that happened today weighed down on my heart. Today’s protest was beautiful and moving; over 500 students from UCSD - UCB came out in solidarity against the budget cuts and increases. We were a massive force of righteous anger against an institution that refuses to be transparent in their records, an institution that wishes to privatize the school system, an institution that sent waves of UCPD, CHP, and LAPD officers with riot helmets, tazers, pellet guns, and tear gas rifles against unarmed students.. What were they so afraid of? So we chanted, we danced, we sang, we made music, we interrupted, we agitated.. And what happened? They passed the increase. So what? We blocked all their exits. We surrounded their vans. We occupied Campbell Hall. We stopped traffic all the way down to Westwood and Wilshire. But what else happened? We watched as friends fell victim to tazers, pepper spray, tear gas and batons. News crews stood around recording us while the cops fucking forced us from our spots and down the hill. I screamed in the faces of the cops who were ramming their batons in my friend’s back. What did they do? They laughed. They joked. But what was most infuriating? They were mostly cops of color.. Don’t they have sons and daughters too?I’m proud of what we did. No regrets. Despite the passage of the fee increases, know that this doesn’t mark the end of our fight. But right now.. I’m so worn out. I’m mentally, emotionally and physically exhausted. I’m not going to forget watching the kid near me fall to the ground after taking so much spray to the face. I’m not going to forget how hard my heart was pounding when we stood our ground in front of the three waves of cops, tying the vinegar-soaked bandanna around my face in anticipation of the tear gas. I’ll never fucking forget today.Proud. Standing in solidarity.
Keep at it! The same people and vested interests who are trying to steal your education in California are trying the same thing around the world: increasing fees, withdrawing help for poorer students, bullying staff as well as students, maintaining a wall of secrecy around their hijacking of what should be publicly accountable processes.
Via Sarah Palin’s Facebook. One of the 1600 comments: “As I read it occurs to me that Sarah, you are too good to have been VP. The liberals are scared to death of you, Sarah because you are the complete package.”
AHHHHHHHHHHH
This is wrong, we don’t need two of them.
