Zombies take a stand Supporters of Prop. 30 dress up for ‘ e Walking Debt’ in L.A.

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Some one hundred demonstrators in support of Proposition 30 paraded to the governor’s office from City Hall Friday when they were ambushed by a horde of flesh-eating zombies.

The quarter-mile march was aimed at gathering support for the proposition that calls for tax increases to prevent further cuts to public education funding.

The group was comprised of L.A. college and community members from all over Southern California.

Dozens dressed as zombies to symbolize the horrifying obstacle that will be posed against public education funding if Prop. 30 does not pass.

“I came here to show support for Prop. 30 which is supposed to fund the schools,” undead Pierce student Bernard Hanamichi said. “If it doesn’t pass we’re going to lose a lot of classes over the course of the next couple semesters.”

The zombies prepared for their attack in a parking lot located at the intersection of Spring St. and 3rd St. Hanamichi, who was dressed as a zombie, is involved in Pierce’s student government as well as other groups that helped coordinate the event such as: Students Organizing for Success a white T-shirt during Pierce Collegeʼs Clothesline Project for Domestic Violence event on Oct. 24.

Behind him, each color signified a different story, a different kind of abuse.

Pierce students Nick Schafer and Brandi McMullen pen their own message on a white T-shirt during Pierce College’s Clothesline for Domestic Violence event to on Oct. 24. Schafer spent fifteen minutes scribing his account of abuse at the hands of a celebrity, while McMullen penned a message of resistance and hope for victims.

Over the past four years, Holly Hagan, bookstore buyer for Pierce College and a survivor of domestic abuse, collected about 250 shirts from Pierce men and women affected by domestic abuse, and about half of them flicked and twisted in the wind from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

(SOS) and the Resistance Against the Gutting of Education (RAGE).

Brenda Medina, a coordinator of the event as well as a California State University, Northridge graduate, also participated as a zombie and even helped by applying makeup to others.

“We wanted to symbolize the sucking out of education if Prop. 30 doesn’t pass,” said Medina.

Pierce student and RAGE member, Rueben Garcia, participated in the downtown march as well, but as a student survivor.

“We’re down to the bones and any more cuts will definitely hurt the system as a whole,” Garcia said.

Having recently granted temporary relief from deportation to undocumented immigrants who meet certain guidelines under the executive order known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), President Obama is seen by many as the more pro-immigrant candidate of the two.

Pierce College student Nicholas Klotzman, 23, said he favors Obama mainly because of his support for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a legislative proposal that would grant permanent residency to certain undocumented immigrants that arrived to the United States as minors if passed.

“I will be voting for Obama,” he said. “The DREAM Act has the possibility of affecting and changing the lives of many people I know, and he wants to make it happen much more than Romney. It would be a new start for them and would open many new doors.”

The DREAM Act is something Obama claims he has been trying to pass since his first year in office. However, Obama has also set an alltime record for deportations in his four years as president.

According to the most recently updated immigrant removal statistics on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website, a record 1,545,894 undocumented immigrants have been deported during Obama’s term. The figures were published Aug. 25, 2012.