Berkeley Students Demonstrate Against War

Great action!

That's reprehensible that they threw out your artwork!!!

Right at the home of the Free Speech movement at Sproul Plaza, the police and campus services are suppressing your free speech rights like that -- outrageous! And on the eve of so much potential misery and violence against innocent people.

The discrimination against chalking is particularly disturbing because chalk happens all the time on the UC campus. I wonder just which types chalk are allowed, and which aren't. Any guesses?

There may well be a code of conduct against it, especially on the sides of the arches, but the fact is that chalk is regularly tolerated if not permitted.

There was a recent case against the Berkeley Police in whic h a man was arrested for sidewalk chalking, he later sued on his own behalf and won a $25,000 settlement. He was also sent a refrigerator box full of chalk from a chalk company as thanks for his effort in defending the right to use SIDEWALK CHALK.

Is anyone planning a chalk-in? I am willing to be a videographer.

yeah, a chalk in may be in the works and well try to keep you posted. the UC is trying all sorts of bogus moves to amp up the code of conduct.

its either going to go the way of an aclu lawsuit or another free speech movement, but well see how it develops....

heres an article on chalking rules for your consideration:

http://dailycal.org/article.asp?id=10756&ref=search

If you retards would demonstrate less often, it might actually mean something to the rest of the country. When this sh*t is every single day, eventually no one cares.

Berkeley Students Demonstrate Against War...so what the f*ck else is new?

The press caters to the young republican club on campus - they have such a free ride into the media for not doing particularly imaginative things - such as this AP story today: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/02/26/state2023EST0155.DTL

The Cal Patriot, by any standards, is equal or worse in quality of writing, with various moderate or liberal publications on campus. It definitely doesn't represent the best work of students on this campus - or even the top half of the class in any rhetoric course. Yet, the editor of that magazine which receives thousands and thousands in funding from rightwing think tanks has been on Fox News at least 3 times that I've counted, on CNN two weeks ago, plus he had an interview in Der Spiegel, a leading magazine of Germany two weeks ago, and the Patriot got in Time magazine. No left, liberal or moderate publication has gotten a fraction of the int'l attention. The campus left, meanwhile, is being forced by the administration to cower and plead for their right to express their free speech rights via something as ineffectual as chalk on asphalt, right on the very spot that Berkeley earned it's int'l reputation in the Free Speech campaign. Yes, I'd say it's time to try to fight back a bit. I don't know what the university is thinking - so they don't want left groups that irritate them to chalk - would they rather that they make a bunch of noise around buildings or head for Telegraph etc.

Isn't that cookie sale described in the above link technically illegal? Meanwhile, I really want to see what law is being cited for destroying and stealing those effigy-things, and for citing their chalk writing. Berkeley is a public university, so wouldn't the precedent by the other case in Berkeley that Meggs cited above apply to the Berkeley campus? Or is it like your can write your own laws on your own property, so maybe at my house I could enforce a law that if you wear a red hat, you have to pay me a fine of $400. Yet, because that is a public campus owned by all, it would be even less buject to strange private rules - at k-12 schools, the ability to censor student newspapers or search lockers derives from the fact that students are younger than 18 and hence have no rights.
In any case, the cookie sale was illegal.