News reports and videos on last week's events at UC Berkeley, UCLA and other campuses

SFGate report at 9 pm after student release. Blocker and other professors were in on the negotiations
with Birgeneau.  http://www2.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/20/BA611ANSAB.DTL

Contra Costa Times; images of police using violence to install a barricade. http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_13832468?source=most_viewed

ABC News evening at time of release. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/education&id=7129433

NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/us/21tuition.html?ref=us

CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/20/california.tuition.protests/index.html

NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120605399

Video of police backing up the students with baton thrusts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI5l2_RghQ&feature=player_embedded

Friday's LA Times on UCLA action:

Students storm UCLA building to protest expected UC
system fee increase [Updated] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/ucla-protests.html

NY Times article on Berkeley faculty resolution re intercollegiate sports subsidy by a UCB journalism
student: "Should Berkeley Subsidize Sports?"      http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/berkeley-professors-stop-subsidizing-sports/

The walkout and other actions at Berkeley, UCLA and other campuses Wednesday and Thursday:

KPFA's Morning Show interviewed strike participants Wed morning (starts at minute 47) http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/56261

YouTube footage of the picket line just before noon Wednesday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjo-Qe7vNrA

SF Chronicle photos of the UCLA protest at the Regents' meeting: http://tinyurl.com/yku2n88

Photos of the UC Berkeley protest by Richard Mellor: http://picasaweb.google.com/rmellor1/UCStrike2009#

SF Chronicle:  http://tinyurl.com/ya78dhk

San Jose: http://preview.tinyurl.com/yjznthh

San Diego: http://tinyurl.com/ygc23dd

An article about police use of a taser at UCLA: http://studentactivism.net/2009/11/19/ucla-tasers-students/

Sacramento Bee on student occupation at UC Davis: http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2336989.html

Blog posting news and commentary on recent actions at UC
campuses and internationally: http://studentactivism.net/

California Progress Report article on PPIC survey results:
"Poll: Flunking Grades for Governor, Legislature on Higher Education" http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/?q=node/7124