OccupyCal (Berkeley) under attack.

[Luminous Animal]

Via twitter...

Josh Stephens, Phd & instructor, in urgent care after beating from UCPD for setting up a tent at #OccupyCal

[Electric Monk]

1. ? I tried loading the page, and I get " @occupycal hasn't tweeted yet."

http://twitter.com/#!/occupycal

[Luminous Animal]

3. I did a search for #occupycal. It is pretty lively.

[Electric Monk]

7. Oh, ok. I guess I don't really get this twitter thing yet.

:shrug:

This is the right one http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23occupycal



edit: Someone's got a sense of humor about it


FearDept US Dept. of Fear
UC Berkeley is on our side. They're letting us beat-up their students. #occupycal
4 minutes ago

[EFerrari]

21. @caloccupation is one of their accts. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

6. Try '#occupycal' - n/t

[Luminous Animal]

2. OccupyUC's General Assembly proposal for the encampment.

In part...

"We, the UC Berkeley General Assembly, hereby establish an encampment on the UC Berkeley
campus. We establish our encampment in order to reverse the privatization of and cuts to all
levels of education, and to help the university become what it always should have been: open .
and free to all.

We disagree with the idea that this university and this land are the property of the UC Regents,
the vast majority of whom hail from the top 1% of wealU1 holders. We recognize that the
privatization of University of Califomia system has not happened in isolation, but is part of a
broader process by which wealth becomes increasingly concentrated and the vast majority of
population, especially the poor, working dass, people of color, indigenous, queer, and other
marginalized people, are excluded from political, economic, intellectual and cultural life."

[coalition_unwilling]

4. K&R. Occupy Los Angeles stands stands in full solidarity

with our brave brothers and sisters in OccupyCal.

Solidarity forever!

[Booster]

5. Before long, Mr. Obama is going to have to bring at least the

National Guard home to protect our average citizens from the stupid cops. Isn't that they were meant for?

[bigmonkey]

8. The UCPD has a history.

A history of being particularly vicious and authoritarian.

[EFerrari]

15. I'd call them apes but that would be an insult to apes.

[XemaSab]

44. Alameda County and Oakland PD are also there

To round out the goon squad.

[Luminous Animal]

9. Beating up unarmed students. It is sickening...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buovLQ9qyWQ&feature=youtu.be

[Luminous Animal]

10. Watch the lower left hand corner where they viciously beat up one man.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. FASCIST PIGS! ...THIS COUNTRY HAS GOT TO CHANGE!

[socialist_n_TN]

14. Trust me, it ain't the first time it's happened

nm

[Luminous Animal]

16. Oh, I know. I was alive when they were beating up peaceful protesters the 1st time around.

And I used to be part of an organization called Cop Watch in Oakland.

[socialist_n_TN]

20. Cop Watch huh? That would probably be illegal nowdays

They're upping the ante and forcing the issue.

[WillyT]

23. Check It Out...

Link: http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/

I hope they're down there now.

[socialist_n_TN]

25. Thanks WillyT......

:)

[nc4bo]

11. Oh dear God - someone make it stop FFS. nt

[Luminous Animal]

13. I don't usually watch videos of violence but I've been forcing myself to watch

the police brutality from around the U.S. For some reason, I feel like I need to.

[nc4bo]

17. Same here Luminous. Very hard to watch but feel those are our brothers and sisters out there

and we all can stand witness.

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Pardon me for butting in but that's a great point. When they hurt one of us, they hurt all of us!

[Luminous Animal]

34. Not butting in at all! Thanks for the input, Fire.

[MedleyMisty]

18. #occupyharvard is also seeing a lot of action

Including students shouting "I am the 1%" from their windows at the protesters.

[WillyT]

19. K & R !!!

:mad:

:nuke:

:kick:

[EFerrari]

24. Occupy Cal ustream:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/j%27tao%27s-webcam-in-cyberspace!!!

punkboy is swapping out his battery, back in five 8:18pm.

[WillyT]

27. Thank You !!!

Meanwhile... from the Chancellor:

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau warned Monday that community members could rally on campus, but that encampments and occupations of buildings were not permitted.

"As the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, we hold an important place in history and are looked to as a model and beacon for others in this regard," the chancellor wrote in an open letter to the community. "We stand ready to support our campus community in leading the collegiate movement in a way that is productive, dignified and consequential."

The university said Wednesday evening that administrators hoped to negotiate a quick end to the effort to establish an overnight camp.

Link: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19298471

Jesus...

:hi:

[EFerrari]

29. Trust this tone deaf jackass to offer leadership to a horizontal movement.

LOL

:hi:

[0rganism]

26. wow, the cops beat up a prof?

That isn't going to go over much better than beating up veterans, methinks.

[EFerrari]

32. Sounds like grad student instructor.

And no, that department is small enought that half the faculty knows him personally.

[xiamiam]

28. this is ridiculous..and is not going to go down well for these police

stupid brutality..shown for what it is..they screwed up again

[kestrel91316]

30. "..Josh Stephens, Phd & instructor, in urgent care after beating from UCPD for setting up a tent..."

I have no words.

[EFerrari]

31. Oakland PD amassing around UCB campus.

I guess there was no one to brutalize in Oakland tonight.

[coalition_unwilling]

33. The words of Mario Savio bear repeating:

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

[WillyT]

37. + 1,000,000,000... What Mario Said !!!

:kick:

[EFerrari]

35. Police rioting at Cal. What a disgrace.

Alameda Co. Sheriffs are there with OPD and UCPD.

[Luminous Animal]

36. Yep. That's the frame. A police riot.

[Luminous Animal]

38. Live...

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[EFerrari]

39. They beat the shit out of people to take out the tents

because tents are a health hazard.

We need to burn up Jerry Brown's phone.

[Luminous Animal]

40. Rose petals thrown over police...

Police put face masks down.

[greyl]

42. ...and bubbles were blown! nt

[Luminous Animal]

41. OccupySF and OccupyOakland members have shown up! Go Occupy!

[EFerrari]

43. Quan is going to have a presser tomorrow and CBS says

she is calling for the eviction of #OO. What a train wreck. She's screwing herself into the ground.

[Luminous Animal]

45. Illustrative of how clueless the Democratic party is. Oakland has a huge marginal

population who are used to being under attack their whole entire lives. They will not back down.

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. Media has left, mic check reports they have been given

the police warning.

Here they come, the cops that is.

[Fire Walk With Me]

47. ...

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[Hosnon]

49. So far nothing... nt.

[EFerrari]

48. Looks like the police are going to attack again.

There must be at least 2K in Sproul Plaza. WTF is their aim? People reporting cops on the rooftops but there isn't any building close to Sproul so I don't know what they mean.