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This is a followup piece to my diary about the MSM noticing that on March 4, 2010 college kids all over the country were protesting the drastic tuition and fee hikes they are facing in order to try to continue their educations.
“It did get a bit disruptive”
https://www.docudharma.com/diar…
Here in CA the state is raising tuition 32%, while cutting funding to state colleges and universities by a total of 1.4 billion dollars. Community colleges are also facing drastic cuts in funding for classes, meaning that there ARE no classes for 200,000 students.
In that diary I had a bit of a time getting a short little video to embed of protesting students in Oakland, who had marched several miles then got up onto the 880 freeway, which showed a view of the freeway, shot from above and at a distance out of somebody’s apartment window, with the cars stopped in the distance and the protesters were huddled up on the exit ramp below by the police. (thanks to Edger for fixing it)
Student Protest In Oakland shuts down Freeway, March 4 2010, from CNN iReporter
This new video is rather brutal as it shows the view on the ground, as the Oakland PD’s Riot division beating the crap out of the same Oakland students with batons, whom they had herded up against the freeway median divider. One 15 year old suffered a fractured skull after either jumping or being pushed in the melee, trying to escape. The people who took the video were also arrested and held for over 20 hours inspite of having press credentials for Democracy Now!
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March 4, 2010: Police Attack 880 Interstate Takeover
This was on HuffPo as Student Activists Beaten After Rally On Interstate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
In my previous diary I said that if you’ve lost the polite and super smart students of agricultural UC Davis, you’ve lost them all.
In this diary I say that if you are protesting tuition fee hikes and class cancelations in much poorer and grittier Oakland, you are at higher risk of physical injury by the authorities, even if you’re lying on the ground.
I guess they could try emailing next time because that always gets more school funding.
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… take out massive student loans that they’ll never be able to pay back ?
Everybody else is expected to.
like health care is not a right it’s a commodity which we should not expect to receive unless those who control it make a profit. It’s another ‘entitlement’ that needs to be reformed. there is no such thing as a free lunch and these kids need to realize that there not entitled to an education. They don’t need it as their are no jobs anyway and you don’t need a degree to sell weatherization or work at Starbucks.
The traditional media told me so.
beating the kid. I saw someone taking a photo. Now I know that I didn’t see what precluded the beating – but living in Chicago, say cops beating up women bartenders for instance, what else is new. Did the kid have a gun? Did the kid curse at the policeman (OMG – what nerve?) Is he just “burnt out.” (Who the hell isn’t?)
Is this being investigated?
Was this on the national media? I don’t watch much of the talking pretty girls and boys anymore.
Next up – uh uh here come the German Shepherds —
to beat the shit out of idealistic kids. Just like it was back in the day only worse.
or he’d be out of work as an independent contractor with slim hopes for unemployment benefits. We are a culturally bankrupt country.
To make our precious children chained to debt in order to get an education (that they must have)is a sign of the continued unravelling of the social fabric. Throw in Obama’s insurance mandates that don’t guarantee that needed procedures will be available anyhow, and we see the ugly future quite clearly.
Nothing is more depressing that seeing a young person in anguish about their future, a future that has been stolen by the oligarchs right in front of our eyes. Unless of course you’re from one of the top 10% of the nation’s wealthy families that owns 90% of everything.
Joy B., I understand what you’re going through, and you have my greatest respect and prayers.