Posted on 11/25/2009 12:45:18 PM PST by SmithL
The UC strike reached its peak at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, when students and custodians dumped days-old trash from the different campus buildings outside California Hall, where UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau works, to protest recent custodian layoffs.
Although California Hall was locked and looked deserted, a couple of people could be seen peaking out from behind the blinds.
“Tell me what democracy looks like, this is what democracy looks like!” shouted Kathryn Lybarger, an organizer for the workers union, as students threw used paper cups, apple cores and banana peels at the front door. “What does a regents’ meeting look like? This is what a regents’ meeting looks like!”
“We will bring your job back,” Lybarger assured Houam Ounniyom, a laid-off custodian.
UC Berkeley undergraduate Marika Goodrich said some buildings on campus had not had their trash picked up for a month because custodians had been laid off.
“One custodian is being asked to clean an entire university building—garbage is piling up in the chemistry labs, in offices, everywhere,” she said. “Some people think it’s because the custodians are lazy, but it’s because they are being laid off.”
UC Berkeley student Marika Ryer said that a shortage of maintenance workers was taking its toll on some classrooms.
The pile of garbage was about 5 feet high by 4 p.m.
“It smells like hell,” chanted the crowd. “It smells like the bathroom.”
“It smells like leadership,” cried Lybarger, to applause from the audience.
Senior Matt Marks said that the students had specifically chosen 3 p.m. to dump the trash outside California Hall because most custodians end their shift then.
“So when they clean all this garbage up, they will get some overtime,” he said. “The union members were OK with us doing this.”
Marks said that students wanted to have an after-party at the Bear’s Lair following Wednesday’s rally, but the student union administration had locked it down.
“They kicked the students out and chained the doors,” he said. “The fire marshall came and told them to open the locks because it was a fire hazard.”
Marks said that although the students had wanted to hold open lectures inside the food court Thursday, the student union officials told them that would require insurance.
“I don’t think they want us to do anything there except eat food,” he said. “And apparently even then we have to be out.”
But, but, but......I thought they were about being all ‘GREEN’ ‘n’ stuff. LOL!
Nothing here a good billyclub couldn’t fix....
The protesters are revolting.
And these little anarchist and socialists are being allowed to this why???????
Paddy wagon time. load ‘em up.. not with trash.. bag’n’tag the hoodlums masquerading as activists and students
question is .. do the regents have the cahonies to start a war on campuses across the state?
These young protestors are so heroic!
So raise tuition 35% to pay for them...
Whoops - aren’t there already protests and riots going on about that?
Uhh.... who is gonna... pick up this trash...?
Now the campus just looks like the rest of the trash heap of the People’s Republic. There’s been trash rotting in the streets in Berkeley for decades, ever since the marxists took over the place.
UC will apologize to these Entitled Youts. Bet on it!
If you really want to punish these pri**s - smash their iPods, iPhones and iBooks.
Hmmmm. maybe it's really because these pampered little shits are too lazy to clean up after themselves..
"In the name of Organized Labor, we, the educated class will create mountains of trash to protest your refusal to hire sufficient numbers of the proletariat to clean up after us"!!!!
They've been apologizing since the Commie "youts" took over the system 40 years ago. The UC system is not part of the United States of America but we taxpayers foolishly keep thinking it is and paying for it.
Uhh.... who is gonna... pick up this trash...?
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The ‘debris’ or the ‘students’?
The regents aren’t blameless here - UC admins get fantastic
salaries and bennies unmatched by private industry. Many
get UC paid housing, lavish expense accounts, cars, free travel.
If the students wanted to show some maturity they would
take on some of the housekeeping - after all its their trash!
They should have kept the janitors and laid off a couple of do nothing administrators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG71rGvsNEY&feature=player_embedded
An example of what and who they allow in Berkely:
Regarding tuition increase at COLLEGE! Kimberly Arciniega says “It’s so unfair, I mean this is supposed to be part of our public education...”
Yeah Kimberly, COLLEGE is part of your ‘public education’. I sure do wish I had known about that when I was missing college to support myself at a job! And now that I’m in college, I had no idea that the government owed me a PUBLIC COLLEGE EDUCATION! I hope that means I don’t owe any money when I graduate for all these loans I’m getting to pay for mine.
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