Berkeley update

[nadinbrzezinski]

Ok catching on the upstream right now.

No tents tonight, there is police presence... and yes they are working into committees, and the GA is over.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupycal#utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=9712847&utm_medium=social

There is actually quite a bit of police,

Oh and two people ended up in the hospital from yesterday's festivities. One a graduate student, another a Professor of English, and yes faculty will be reacting to the Chancellor's letter. He justified this use of battons... So just a catching up on this.

Powell_DA D. A. Powell
Video: former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass jabbed with police baton at #occupycal: j.mp/uHi64A @ekstasis
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[OmahaBlueDog]

1. Thanks!

I went to Cal in the 80's, so I'm obviously distressed to see this.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Solidarity!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Oh my... these kids are making me cry

they just did a lot of really fast growing up. One of them is describing what happened yesterday afternoon... and now that she has seen police brutality, she wants to work into getting her anger into community work... that is powerful.

[alittlelark]

8. My daughter will be starting there in the fall

I am thinking of trying to convince her to go to UCSC instead. They have the most beautiful campus in the country and less stress.

She seems so young for her age.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. If she does, try to teach her some street savines

I know, I know, she is a teen so you went stoopid when she turned 16... at least that is what they tell me.

And she may say no... adventure and all that.

Good luck

Oh and PS, I was pretty damn naive at 18 myself. We all were.

[wiggs]

11. My two daugthers just graduated last May. It has been the best experience of

their lives so far...expansive, challenging, different, and diverse, in more ways than one. They joined protests, but with some perspective and restraint. They danced on top of the free speech cafe when Obama was elected...they photographed friends occupying buildings (from the street below thankfully), have had photos published of peers on the ground after being hit with rubber bullet. They traveled to challenging places for study abroad. They exchanged thoughts with Danes, Rwandans, and with people with all kinds of backgrounds while studying at one of the zillion cafes that seem to exist just for people to linger and talk.

Along with thousands of others, they streamed toward the on campus football stadium on game day and have developed a healthy dislike for teams that wear red. They listened to the bright stars of our time...Hillary Clinton, Angela Davis, Paul Simon, Al Gore, Dave Matthews...usually for free. One daughter routinely ran into Stephen Hawking in the halls of the astronomy building. Another went to all the Alvin Ailey dance performances that were available to students on campus.

They often traveled into one of the great cities of the world, just 20 minutes by public transportation. They joined the snowboard club and made fast friends on trips to Tahoe, Colorado, Utah.

And so much more...we and our kids have no regrets on the choice.

All college choices result in tremendous opportunities for growth...and UCSC was the second choice for one of them. But there's only one Berkeley.

[kestrel91316]

4. "...U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass jabbed with police baton...."

Spend a moment thinking about that little tidbit.

Like I just said: We are a nation of sociopaths, by sociopaths, and for sociopaths.

And we are truly doomed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. This is what it will take to reopen society

to be honest...

[Gregorian]

7. I'm beginning to see. The 1% contol the values of the country.

I know that's not the truth. The majority of people have common sense and real morals. However, what we see and hear in the public is dictated by the 1%. And that part of the society is ugly and like you said sociopathic.

I'm not even sure what it is I'm saying. It is as if there are two Americas. One is fake. The one that has flashing lights, and a scrawl under the pictures. The advertisements. The police and military. Most of Congress.

It's age old. But I think we have a consensus among people on the planet that it can and must change.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. ustream is now over

[Scuba]

10. Thank you! Thanks to the Berkeley OWS protesters. n/t

[Fumesucker]

12. K&R, thanks for posting.. n/t