To Protect and Serve is a 6 minute video (I downloaded it here) of riot police unleashed upon Tent University Santa Cruz students for allegedly violating curfew. The film shows cops applying pressure holds untill their victims are unconscious and records the hysteria that ensued. In the name of peacefull protest no physical retaliation from the victims or students nearby which just amazes me. Those tactics could be deadly to someone with an underlying heart condition. And why did they let the camera person film it, unless they wanted to send the message? But if that’s the case, why didn’t a news junkie like me catch this story when it happened nearly a month ago?
The second link is also where I first read about TUSC:
TUSC is a creative and powerful form of resistance to the ever-growing culture of oppression of which UCSC is a part, as well as an opportunity to define and create the kind of world we wish to live in. In glaring contrast to the University of California, which is driven almost solely by economic imperatives, Tent University will function based on principles of liberty, solidarity, community, and creativity. UCSC faculty will lead their classes there, rather than in their classrooms; representatives of various community organizations and movements will hold teach-ins and workshops; and students will teach their own classes on a wide variety of subjects. It will mark a convergence of the campus’ many vibrant movements, including the ongoing workers’ struggle, a walk-out to defend public education on April 20th, and resistance to the campus’ continued taxing of the natural environment (and the infrastructure of the greater city of Santa Cruz) to make way for thousands of more students.
This is one person’s analysis of what went right and wrong.