Hello Rebellion, My Old Friend . . .
So, the Business building at SFSU got taken over by a bunch of students on Wednesday. They came in and barricaded the doors so that no one else could get in and all classes would be cancelled. The next day, campus police came in and forced everyone out. No one was injured, which was a good thing. And then I got two messages in my email. One from the president of SFSU, talking about why this wasn't a peaceful protest and blah blah blah, and one from a girl I know from Creative Writing inviting me to join a Support the Occupation deal on Facebook.
Now, at the time, I didn't know why people were occupying the Business building in the first place, but I just assumed it had to do with the higher tuition, loss of classes, loss of teachers, cancellation of winter semester, etc. etc. And while I'm not sure I would have supported it---if one of my classes got cancelled this close to graduation and I couldn't turn something important in, I might have had to kill people---I was generally feeling sort of sympathetic towards the protesters, because the financial situation at SFSU has pretty much sucked and I understand being pissed off about it.
That being said.
I'm posting a link for the list of demands that the occupants made, and let me tell you, after reading it, I won't be joining the facebook group. Sure, some of the financial stuff is on there, but other things are being demanded too, like, "the imperialist wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Gaza are ended, and that money is used to feed and clothe the poor" and I think my personal favorite, "all prisons are closed and defunded."
( List of Crazy Ass Demands )I may not be crazy about war and sure, a lot of prisons have shitty conditions and not everyone there deserves to be in them, but WOW, really? If you're going to do a protest, maybe you should focus on some even remotely practical goals, maybe even ones that have something to do with the campus you're staging them. This is just sort of laughably pathetic.
And thus I side with the cold-hearted, money-grubbing bureaucrats.
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