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2012
ISSUE 6
MARCH 2, 2011
NOV. 18, 2009
MARCH 1,
VOLUME LXXXXII
Students and faculty members demonstrated on 19th and Holloway avenues today in demonstration against pending budget cuts. The protest was in collaboration with a statewide Day of Action.
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and allies , educators ts n e d u that st Area where 9-mile trek in Oakland te 9 ta a S in t the will beg ith a sit-in a e Berkeley w te a in lm will cu From th n, acramento. Capitol in S ation to Workers Actio g in ci k o ta Faculty Ass cross California are a ts n a streets. particip tions to the their frustra
DAY OF ACTION: A MARCH FOR CHANGE 6 UC Berkeley was the first to protest in the fall of 2009 as their tuition was threatened to be raised 32 percent to cover the more than $500 million state budget deficit. Students at other UCs and CSUs soon followed suit. On the 2009 Day of Action, SF State stu-
THE MERGING OF MOVEMENTS The involvement of the Occupy movement will be one of many factors to expand the Day of Action from 24 to 168 hours.
dents sat in the lobby of the Administration building after having their own fees raised $672 dollars a semester, and CSU employees were forced to participate in furloughs. This year, with even more fee increases approved and more cuts on the way, a high turnout is expected.
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BY MICHELLE OLSON | maolson@mail.sfsu.edu
NCE A FITTING TITLE FOR a day-long demonstration, this year’s Day of Action for Education in California has expanded into a week-long affair. This is a result of networking, promoting and organizing efforts intended to ensure that it will achieve different results. The rally will start at 11 a.m. March 1 in Malcom X Plaza and stop at the Civic Center, the California State Building and then City Hall, ending around 6 p.m. This is only the beginning. A week-long series of rallies and protests will include a 99-mile walk to the state Capitol
from Oakland, and a three-day stay inside or on the lawn of the Capitol building in Sacramento. Some participants attribute these additional events and the increase in collaborations to the support of the Occupy movement. “There’s much more cohesion in the city and Bay Area in general,” said Federico Villalobos, a member of Occupy SFSU and an art history major at SF State. “The tactics and the momentum are different, so the event is going to be different, because of the ideas of the people behind the event, like Occupy.” SEE ACTION ON PAGE 6