Right now, we're locked in a building on campus, Wheeler Hall, probably the main campus building
at Yussel Berkley.
There's tons of people in here, they're all, you know, shuttling around making sure that
doors are being held shut.
This is about solidarity, this is about not only students but it's about faculty members,
it's about workers, and it's about all of us being fed up with this crisis of priorities
that there is.
They say that it's a financial crisis but that's not the truth, it's what they value
and honor within the education system, that's the problem.
We are fighting for a public good.
When students come to school in the morning, they will realize that class has been canceled.
They're using violent tactics, I mean can you see my back?
The demands that we have today right now are that the 38 workers, AFSCME workers, are rehired
here on Yussel Berkley campus.
We are also asking that the Bears layer, which is the only immigrant owned business on campus,
get a fair contract.
We also are asking that one of the housing, the apartments that is affordable housing for
students here, Rochdale Hall, remains as it always has been for a $1 a year lease to the
students co-op, and we're also asking that we receive amnesty, those of us that have
been acting and having demonstrations across the UC system.
This action is solidarity with occupations that have occurred so far in UC Davis, UCLA,
UC Santa Cruz, SF State, we hope these continue.
We have a 32% fee increase that we want immediately repealed, but you know what?
We want a whole lot more than that.
We want public education that is free.
We want transparency and we want democracy.
We want to democratize the region.
If those demands are filled, we will then enter into negotiations in a democratic fashion
with this university.
You think you need to get the class, keep in mind the class you're getting to, the quality
of that education is being cut into, that's what people are sitting down to protest.
That's what people are taking a stand against here.
You guys are at this door.
We're holding them off, we're not sure what they're doing outside, we're trying to talk
about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside so that the
rest of the students, faculty, workers that are outside can participate in the conversation as well.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We're holding them off, we're trying to talk about what they're doing outside.
We were standing in the center of the occupation,
We were standing in the center of the occupation,
We were standing in the center of the occupation,
We were standing in the center of the occupation,
We were standing in the center of the occupation,
We were standing in the center of the occupation,
