Protesters (rioters) damage Calif. university leader's home (and throw bombs at police cars)

Associated Press ^ | December 12, 2009 | Dan Thompson

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People’s Hellhole.

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Indymedia the ultra left site has this story..

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/12/18632412.php

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Eight protest bystanders charged with multiple felonies

Contact:
UC Berkeley student, Marika Iyer (217) 766-9833; marikaiyer [at] gmail.com;

Other student Organizers of Live Week:
Laura Zelko, student organizer with Live Week: laura_z [at] berkeley.edu
Callie Maidhof, student organizer with Live Week: callie.maidhof [at] gmail.com

UC Police arrested 8 more people – many whom eyewitnesses say had not been engaging in any illegal activity - on the final night of a 5-day, 24-hour-a day “Live Week” open university, held by Cal students and faculty to protest and provide an alternative to the “dead week” at the end of the semester resulting from recent furloughs and budget cuts. The final event of the week, a free performance featuring Boots Riley, a hip hop artist from The Coup, had to be moved at the last minute after a morning police raid on Wheeler Hall, the primary site for “Live Week” activities.

Some 200 students gathered for the concert at the UC Berkeley campus from UC Davis, SF State, UC Santa Cruz, and UCLA as well as Berkeley. Following the concert, which had been interrupted by police cars constantly circling the area, some of the attendees joined a night march that left campus for the residence of UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. Some of the protesters carried torches to light up the path, they said. Some dragged newspaper boxes into the street.

“Regardless of what one thinks about the events of last night, the minor vandalism that occurred cannot be viewed outside the context of the physical violence inflicted by police on student activists and the broader assault on public education,” said Callie Maidhof, a student organizer with “Live Week”.

Many of the marchers were upset about the arrests that had been made earlier that day, when police stormed into a building where students had been holding Live Week events since Monday. Sixty-five people who had been sleeping off studying were loaded onto Alameda County Sheriff’s buses during the cold pre-dawn hours, some of them barefoot and wearing only their underwear. Most of the students were given misdemeanor trespassing charges and released by the afternoon.

Police swooped down on the activists in front of University House around 11:30 p.m., resulting in pandemonium as the students and other activists dispersed in all directions.

“When everyone is running, you don’t think that clearly. My friends and I were trying to leave because things were getting out of hand,” said Jobert Poblete, a Cal alumni who participated in the march.

Poblete was split up from his friends, who ran into the woods near Strawberry Creek. Police then swept up Carwil James, 34, according to a friend of Poblete who stood next to James when he was arrested

“Carwil hadn’t been doing anything at the time. Now he’s in jail on his birthday, and they just raised his bail from $50,000 to $132,000. There’s no way we can raise that much money. This is a travesty,” said Poblete.

David Morse, 41, an independent journalist, was filming the demonstration and police response when he was arrested, said witnesses.

“They were simply at the wrong place and the wrong time,” said a student who did not want to give their name and observed the chaos when police arrived at the chancellor’s house.

Eleven people arrested at student demonstrations in the past week remain in custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

pinging ya this one

[goat granny]

These actions are a true return to the protests of the 60’s, just add burning buildings, throwing bombs into the schools, breaking into offices and slinging pig blood all over the place, sit ins and lay ins and have it go on for several years on a daily basis...Add a few cities in riots, Marxist priests breaking into recruitment sites and throwing blood all over, assassinating a few politicians, leftist priests giving aid and comfort to the viet Cong, attacking the military men as they return from the war and yelling baby killers at them and all you young uns will know what the 60’s were really like and why The Clinton's act the way they do, along with senators and members of the house that through the 60’s were wonderful..the decade of the 60’s was not Woodstock and peace, it was LSD sex with everyone you could think of and boy was it great. All the rich college kids that had parents paying for their tuition had a grand old time....Thank God for the 4 that died at Kent state, that put a damper on all the junk, cause it wasn't fun anymore if you could get killed. All the heads of the Universities gave in to all the crap the SDS, Black Panthers and other leftist radicals wanted...Then they started hiring communists like Angela Davis as professors. Now you know why the schools are so screwed up...

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...there's lots of evidence that the Guardsmen at Kent were returning fire.

There was overwhelming evidence, at least that they were acting to protect their lives from a murderous group of anarchist thugs who:
- burned down the campus ROTC building nights before.
- trespassed on private property by taking over and trashing professors' private offices
- made numerous bomb threats against campus facilities.
- rioted in town, terrorizing residents, destroying property and spreading massive mayhem.

The shooting at Kent State was flat-out justified. No criminal charges were brought against the guardsmen (in contrast to today's zeitgeist, in which the guardsmen would be tried for murder and lynched.) It's only a shame that they waited so long to take the needed action.