(Photo: Protesters at the UC regents meeting in Sacramento wore orange and called themselves prisoners sentenced to debt. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)“Student protesters angry about another possible tuition hike disrupted the meeting of the University of California regents Wednesday in Sacramento, with some demonstrators dressed in orange prisoner uniforms and singing about “working on the chain gang.”The regents were about to discuss a recent report about the treatment of protesters on campuses and then analyze the impact of the governor’s May revision of the state budget on tuition.Officials have said a 6% percent tuition hike may be in the works for July’s regent meeting if state funding does not increase.After 15 or so protesters began chanting and marching around the meeting, they ignored orders to clear the hall. The regents then moved to another room to discuss other business in closed session.The protest ended after about 15 minutes and the regents were expected to resume their public sessions after lunch, according to a UC spokesman.Student activists have staged a string of protests in recent months, clashing with police. In March, three UCLA students were arrested after protesters disrupted a San Francisco regents meeting with a “spring break” demonstration in which some stripped down to bathing suits and tossed inflatable beach balls.In a November incident that was recorded on video and widely viewed online, UC Davis protesters were squirted with pepper spray by campus police.Undergraduate costs for California residents, including tuition, room, board and campus fees, has risen to $31,000 and university officials have warned of more increases if voters this fall reject Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax hike.”-LATimes|L.A. NOW
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Some pics from #OccupyLA #M1GS #MayDay via: OccupyLA
LiveStreams here:
http://occupyla.org/
#Moscow punks attack Indonesian embassy with paint in #solidarity with Indonesian comrades (Russia)
“15 December 2011
On December the 15th a group of anonymous punks from Moscow decided to act upon receiving news of brutal state repression of Indonesian punk-scene. We consider ourselves anarcho-punks and these news offended us in the deepest sense. We wont tolerate any religion to hold sway over living being’s freedom, especially over our subculture. Thus on the same evening we gathered to express our rage. We chose Indonesian embassy as our target. For us solidarity starts on subcultural level. We feel that modern Russian anarchists pay too little attention to subcultures of resistance. We wish the news of our action to reach Indonesian comrades. We hope they will have their spirits soar after hearing that in such far-away country there are folks who feel solidarity with their struggle.
Punk is not a crime. Religion is fascism. Fight for your looks.
We didn’t want to make video, but it was agreed upon after a tedious discussion that even the most pacifist action should have video documentation. So here it goes:
youtu.be/f9cXpVqjsCw
Some photos:
– general view on the embassy
– writing says “Religion = fascism”
– writing says “Punk is not a crime”
Link to the statement of responsibility (Russian).
Up the Punx!”~Via: 325
More solidarity action via:punkrpockers.com: Bring your own signs and banners. This is a D.I.Y. Protest.
Monday, December 19th, 2011 from 10am-1pm. Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Los Angeles: 3457 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010. The Banda Aceh government in Indonesia has declared punk rockers as a “social disease” and has begun imprisoning punks in order to “reeducate” them.
From mainstream news:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-1…ic-law/3731442
L.A. Times –
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-punk-sh…0.photogallery
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12…sharia-police/
Sign the online petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/aceh…-re-educated-2
Punk Aid: Jakarta Calling
https://sites.google.com/site/punkaidjakarta2012/
Punks making mix tapes for Indonesia Punks:
http://abortedsociety.com/2011/12/mixtapes-for-aceh/
RT @OccupyOregon Post these
#D12#PortShutdown flyers around your city!
http://pic.twitter.com/BIAFp3hG
#OLA #OO #OPDX #Occupyseattle #occupyvancouver (via@postnaught)
I love the occupy movement, I think it’s a beautiful thing to see all that energy and all that love that’s out there and all those people making a commitment. I’m hoping that some of that energy can go towards occupying places where we can actually stop the 1%. Right? Because we don’t want to just tell the 1%, “you’re horrible and this is wrong”, we want to actually stop them and the way to stop them is to occupy the places where they make their money.
I’ve heard a lot of talk about this distinction between occupy going after Wall Street and the financial sector versus focusing on the environment. To me, it’s a false distinction because I know that the people who run the world and are living off of all of us make their money by exploiting the environment and by taking away land from indigenous peoples. These are not separate issues at all – they are all one issue.
If we want to stop the 1%, we have to go to their factories, we have to go to the pipelines, we have to go to the ports where trade happens, we have to go to the stock exchanges inside… and all those things have to be occupied.
Hopefully, we can begin a conversation about switching to more direct targets for occupying. We’re calling it “Occupy the Machine”.
- Premadasi Amada, Deep Green Resistance organizer
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New Poster and info on #OccupythePort #d12 #OO #OSF #OLA #OSD
www.WestCoastPortShutdown. org
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=OGqncu3wlEISUPPORT GROWS FOR OCCUPY MOVEMENT’S COORDINATED WEST COAST SHUT DOWN ON DECEMBER 12TH
As of November 27, 2011, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast port city: Occupy LA, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Portland, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle have joined Occupy Oakland in calling for and organizing a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade and Shutdown on December 12, 2011.
Occupy Protests Shift Focus From Encampments to Reclaiming Foreclosed Homes
The Occupy Wall Street protests are moving into the neighborhood. Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces, Occupy protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up properties, signaling a tactical shift for the movement against wealth inequality.
Groups in more than 25 cities held protests Tuesday on behalf of homeowners facing evictions.
In Atlanta, protesters held a boisterous rally at a county courthouse and used whistles and sirens to disrupt an auction of seized houses. In New York, they marched through a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn carrying signs that read “Foreclose on banks, not people.” Southern California protesters rallied around a family of six that reclaimed the home they lost six months ago in foreclosure.
“It’s pretty clear that the fight is against the banks, and the Occupy movement is about occupying spaces. So occupying a space that should belong to homeowners but belongs to the banks seems like the logical next step for the Occupy movement,” said Jeff Ordower, one of the organizers of Occupy Homes.
The events reflect the protesters’ lingering frustration over the housing crisis that has sent millions of homes into foreclosure after the burst of the housing bubble that helped cripple the country’s economy. Nearly a quarter of all U.S. homeowners with mortgages are now underwater, representing nearly 11 million homes, according to CoreLogic, a real estate research firm.
Photo Credit: (presstv)
Another article here: alternet
