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uc santa cruz shut down

by sara (sarars2 [at] gmail.com)
Students, faculty, and workers gathered at 5 am at UC Santa Cruz to protest the privatization of public education in California. The students called a strike, and campus is shut down, with traffic prevented from going up to campus. As of 7 am, hundreds of students, faculty and workers have gathered at all campus entrances. Thousands more are expected throughout the day, especially for the 9 am and noon rallies, and the 5 pm general assembly, all at the base of campus at mission and bay.
Uc santa cruz is shut down.
§Banana Slugs shut down the campus.
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§Update
by via Occupy California
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9:40am: Currently a rally is being held at the main entrance (i.e. the east entrance) with 250 participants. For a while 2 helicopters were flying above. The students blocking the intersection of High and Western have left after most of the workers were blocked from entering campus (it would appear some dining hall workers were able to get on campus, but many others were unable to get on campus). Many of the workers are now here supporting the students.

Earlier this morning, multiple students were injured by two separate incidents where cars rushed the strike line (one at the intersection of Hagar and Coolidge, and the second at the intersection of High and Western). The car at Hagar and Coolidge was tailgating a police car being let through, students then approached the vehicle to stand in front of it and tell them about the strike. The car hit the gas and drove into the mass, injuring a student’s leg, fortunately not broken. In the incident at High and Western, a tan volvo began accelerating into the crowd blocking the street, despite the fact that cars driving down High (away from campus) were being slowly let through. The volvo hit around 5 students, one student flipped over the hood of the car and over the top, breaking the rear window as the student fell off the back. As the volvo sped away, students kicked the car, denting it. Several cars and motorcycles have tried to slowly push through the crowd through out the day, but all failed. Rumors of other car incidents exist, but the others have yet to be confirmed.

Also, earlier this morning a banner was hung over highway 1, stating “March 4 Defend Education!”
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§11:40am Update
by via Occupy California
11:40am: While most of the protesters are at the main entrance and the west entrance, some of the protesters are at Hagar and Coolidge to watch out for supervisors forcing workers to trek up the long and steep hill to get to work. Supervisors began leading the workers up the hill past a handful of students in the intersection before the students could organize themselves. As more students came to support the other students in the intersection, they realized the workers and supervisors were already around 50 feet away up the hill to campus. So around 15 students ran up the hill to form a line to blockade the workers. The police arrived and dispersed the line, telling the students that they had made a “physical threat” on the workers. As the workers passed by, they shouted that there was no physical threat. So as the police returned to their vehicle, the students yet again ran up the hill the block the workers from getting further into campus. The police immediately turned around and approached the students to disperse them. However by now, the workers turned around and spoke to their supervisors claiming they couldn’t get through, the supervisors conceded and the workers were allowed to go home
§1pm Update
by via Occupy California
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1:00pm: Around 500 have rallied at the base of campus. Video was taken around 12:45pm, the rally as of 1:15pm is still going.
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by elementary trenches
Unfortunately I can't be there today. Thank you so much for reporting. Please keep us posted throughout the day as you can.
Solidarity from Watsonville.
by -
This is supposedly the frequency for the UC police radio, although there isn't much being said right now, but there is some discussion about whether they're going to 'cancel the line' and something about kresge and the physical plant. They might be jumpign around stations.
By the way, the Sentinel is harping on a 'students vs. innocent service workers' theme, talking about landscapers who had the windows of their cars broken out and so forth. Just a few incidents like that will require some damage control.

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=2766
by at UCSC
scaaa [at] lists.riseup.net reports that, "Undercover police in unmarked cars infiltrated [UCSC] campus since last night."

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Send updates to scaaa [at] lists.riseup.net
by repost
8 a.m. Due to potential safety concerns, people, including any employee scheduled for work, are advised not to come to the main campus. Campus emergency personnel have just transmitted a CruzAlert message to all UCSC students, staff, and faculty.
by via Occupy California

5:00am: Students out blocking streets at the intersection of High & Western, Hagar and Coolidge, and the western entrance of campus effective shutting it down. Only people on foot can enter campus.

7:00am: Some people have been hit by cars breaking the picket line, breaking someones leg and hitting another 3 or so people.

8:00am: Campus administrators activated the  CruzAlert messaging system with the following message “Please avoid both campus entrances due to safety concerns. Check web or 459-INFO at noon for update.” (source)


http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/protest/03-10/
http://occupyca.wordpress.com/
by Mike Holmes
How come residents in the area are not allowed access to their homes? They aren't going on campus, they just live in the area. When will you let them go home? Also, if you surround someone's car, why are you breaking their windows when they are frightened and don't want to roll them down?
by ????
Really?? Has that been verified??
by repost
3 other people run over in same incident, but they're fine #occupyca
by via HuffPo / UCSC police
7:57 a.m./UC Santa Cruz A security advisory posted on UC Santa Cruz's web site advises people not to come to the campus for work or school. University police also report that a car windshield was smashed on campus.

Addendum: UC Regent Live(blog) points out an interesting fact about UCSC's campus:

UC Santa Cruz only has two entrances in and out of the campus. The west entrance and the north entrance. This is a well-known and unfortunate fact for administrators. Students have shut down both entrances, effectively shutting down the campus.

More information at
by update
UCSC admin reports:
"Traffic update: High Street is now open in both directions."
by /
police are using more social control methods like blocking access to your home even if youre not involved. there was also an incident in another city where there was a suicide at a large apartment complex and residents were not allowed to leave. they are gearing up for social control of populace. be informed!
by Ramiro
AGUANTE ESTUDIANTES DE UCSC!! 100% FULL SUPPORT FROM WATSONVILLE!!

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass, 1857
by repost

Noon Due to continuing access issues at both entrances, employees are advised not to come to the main campus for the duration of the day. Continue to check this website for more information.

11 a.m. Photos from this morning's events on campus.

by trollbuster (in the good sense)
It says ti all. Be careful who you listen to.v
by from above
"The volvo hit around 5 students, one student flipped over the hood of the car and over the top, breaking the rear window as the student fell off the back. As the volvo sped away, students kicked the car, denting it. Several cars and motorcycles have tried to slowly push through the crowd through out the day, but all failed. Rumors of other car incidents exist, but the others have yet to be confirmed."
by via Occupy California
1:55pm: Students are redistributing themselves around campus for maximum effectiveness. Around 60 people are at Hagar and Coolidge warning people that they may not be able to re-enter campus if they leave. They are also watching out for supervisors forcing workers to get onto campus still.

2:50pm: Strikers are now relaxing on the grass at the main entrance listening to a live band. The strike is mostly split up into three locations, Lower Campus (Hagar and Coolidge), Main Entrance (i.e. East Entrance), and the West Entrance.

3:20pm: Earlier story about a prius running into students and driving onto sidewalk at High and Western has been confirmed. At least one student broke some fingers when the car recklessly plowed through the crowd.
by Keep it Real
That appears to be misinformation; I find no links or reports to confirm that. If someone has verifiable, please post it.

If false, please delete it. It's inflammatory and serves no positive or constructive purpose.
by "breaking" news
The information has already been updated about the person's leg.

If you read up above (or search), you will see that it says, "The car hit the gas and drove into the mass, injuring a student’s leg, fortunately not broken."
by Keep It Real
I don't see any post refuting the broken leg or stating ""The car hit the gas and drove into the mass, injuring a student’s leg, fortunately not broken."


I also see a post claiming a protester suffered broken fingers; but I find no links/posts or evidence of such in multiple other media sources.


Please confirm or erase. If false, it's eroding credibility.
by ripley
1. It's up there. Look for the photo of the trucks blocked on High at Western. Or, "Find" it on this page. It's there.
2. What's your point? So you read it here first. As with all media, use your own filters to decide what is real in this world and what is made up.
"Believe nothing that you hear and half of what you see."
And when someone is either falsifying or spreading rumors of physical injury, it's a dicey practice that inflames tensions on both sides for no constructive purpose, imo.

..that's my point.

Thanks for pointing out the part I missed in the truck picture. When you said there was a post that refuted the claim of a broken leg, I didn't expect it to have been posted before the claim, so I didn't look backwards from the post claiming a broken leg.
by morning student
I watched two separate incidents occur at the Western & Empire Grade intersection.

The first was a prius heading from Western attempting to bypass a line of traffic. It barreled over a grassy block corner hitting students, cracking its windshields by this collision. Immediately after students attempted to stop the car, the car sped off, rocks were thrown understandably. A cop stood by watching the entire time. A second cop emerged to harass students.

The second incident was a station wagon coming from Empire Grade direction, bypassing traffic to barrel through a group of students (similar to the first incident). Again, rocks were thrown at the car.

Never saw any clubs, knives, weapons etc. I only saw people being hit by cars and having to deal with the injuries while the drivers ran away.
by (a)
If you try to break human bodies with your car, you are going to get your car smashed up. Pretty straightforward if you ask me.

Everyone driving out (away from campus) from the picket line was let out. People driving up empire grade and heading past campus were allowed through the line on High street near Western.

One Volvo that just tried to drive into a line of people got a window broken and a few dents when they literally hit people with their car. They were leaving the picket and would have been allowed to exit peacefully if they would have slowed down and waited for people to move (literally a 10 second extra delay).

At the main entrance, one car that ran over someones foot and injured another person's leg had a windshield broken as well.

Back on High and Western, an idiot in a Prius forced its way through the line got several windows broken and a side view mirror repossessed. Turns out green capitalists are just as heartless as normal capitalists. Have fun paying for your bad decision, fucking fool.

What do you expect when you try to run people over?
by (a)
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Here is the fool in the Volvo trying to run people over near Western.
by Recreate history much?
So tell me exactly how that Volvo is running over the 12-15 people surrounding it's sides and rear?

Y'all should think a bit more about your attempts at recreating history before you post these pix. Pretty clear from the picture that you guys had this car surrounded. I'd of accelerated to get out of that threatening mess too. Reap what ya sow.
by His face hidden?
I guess the car is trying to run him over too?

Talk about recreating history. What that picture shows me is a car surrounded by a bunch of pumped-up protesters with their faces covered, banging on a car. And as a result, the driver panics, for good reason, and hits the gas. I'd do the same.
by morning student
The photo was taken after it rammed through people. The rest of the people injured or forced out by the vehicle are to the right of everyone else. The people running toward it were attempting to stop the car so people could talk with the driver about why taking their aggression out on people's bodies isn't alright.

There's not much to be fabricated; there were broken feet, hands, fingers and bruises to prove all this afterwards.
by Not adding up
This picture was either taken when it happened, or after.

If it was taken after, then how do you explain the two bodies on the hood; one with feet off the ground and the other leaning at a 45 degree angle? If it was taken after, that means they're jumping on the car., which would negate the claim that all damage was done from the driver hitting pedestrians.

If it was taken as it happened, then there was indeed a mob surrounding the car and intimidating the driver.

In fact, I'll say that before of after, there appears to be intimidation going on. A mob surrounding a car, most with their faces covered, and now covered here as well by blurring.

Nope; not adding up at all.
by Miles
The picture is taken at the tail end of the event. Throughout the morning we played chicken with upset drivers more than once; the irony of the Volvo is that we were letting people through in that direction. He deliberately drove into a crowd of people who did not move. In what situation would he not be surrounded by people if he drove through a picket line? There was absolutely no intimidation, knives, or clubs.
Now I don't know how you would react, but when the Volvo didn't stop and I ended up on his hood, I banged the car with my fists. I understand his anger, maybe panic, but that is not an excuse to assault a crowd with what is in essence a deadly weapon. Several people were hit by this asshole while a city cop watched. I'm sure his car was damaged just because he hit people with it. It was also damaged because protesters saw friends and comrades being hit and got a bit of revenge. You might think differently, but I don't think property damage is quite on the same level as injuring a human being without provocation.
by Mee too
I am one of the legitimate student protesters, ie: not masked! That is NOT what happened. I hate that these extreme protesters keep posting false info, it is truly hurting our cause. Those of us that were there really know what happened.
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