@vicrattlehead07 A lot of these kids wouldn't have been old enough to vote for Obama. And it's not the administration that's been pushing for the tuition hikes - it's the universities having to make up for the drop in tax revenue from the states, as the recession has dragged on from policies and events that started underneath the Bush administration, & even Clinton administration, coupled with student loans/grants pushed to be cut by Republicans & some Democrats.
Yeah, stupid hippies, they never learn. Putting flowers in the soldiers' guns weren't very effective and it seems shouting "shame on you" has as much effect when the opposition is sporting batons. Next time they should've brought their own batons and guns.
@Radarmantro Ghandi ejected the entire British empire from India through non-violent protests and Martin Luther King revolutionized civil rights through non-violent protest. In fact 50 out 67 transitions from authoritarian government resulted from non-violent protests. The results of non-violent protests speak for themselves.
This is really sad. People that administer the system are no different from the scums in Wall Street. These fat, greedy pigs are way overpaid.
I remember I read in the newspapers a Democratic lawmaker (that's right, a DEMOCRAT) told the media that he believes some UC Berkeley professors are far from reality. One professor is able to take PAID LEAVE while working on his novel. This is fucking ridiculous! I still support Democrats, but they need to learn how to say NO to some professors.
Why don't they just get their education on the internet from Bill Gates for free? Or don't they like Bill's educational funding for YouTube? Or is it just the lack of pot smoking from the internet education that makes them sad?
It's UC-Berkeley. What do you expect? you want it free? huh? are you smart enough to garner those scholarships? maybe if you stop smoking pot and study more, then just maybe you will be smarter than the Medinas at Stanford.
@vicrattlehead07 I'm a lib-tard and I even think this is absolutely nuts. I had a good rant up at the top of these comments...maybe you would agree with what I had to say.
We are all in hard times. What do they expect? They money needs to come from somewhere. But hey, I guess as long as they get their diploma they dont mind if UC goes bankrupt in 4 years, right?
1) As much as I understand NO ONE likes tuition hikes, we are in HARD ECONOMIC TIMES. Things like this happen out of desperate attempts to keep our wonderful CA education system going. What do these students want? Their schools to go bankrupt 4 years down the road? Well, hey, as long as THEY graduate, no big right?
2) UC was too expensive anyways. Yes, I could have afforded to go there, but why? UC's huge tuitions have
made it so only higher and higher classes can join them- in a sense, privatizing them. All to subsidize research for companies. UC has lost sight of what a University is supposed to be. Its a machine now. Take em in, take their money, pump em out, repeat.
2) Because its such a machine the education quality goes down. No one would like to admit it, but UC's education is fairly...average. Hundreds of kids per class, interns, rarely seeing a professor 1v1... Students arn't special.
3) States have maintained the proper view of a University (better at least) than UC. Smaller campuses, smaller classes, more pro-active professors, and an equal education to UC on half the endowment and a fraction of the tuition. I mean, really, what got lost in translation that so clearly says State is sub-par to UC? I can walk out with the same Major as someone at a UC. What makes a UC diploma better than mine? Might I add where State graduate students go? UC!
Internships! i have sat in seminars at UCD and elsewhere only to find out the teacher was A) and intern B) IN graduate school coming from a State.
So are you not paying UC fees to be taught by an intern from State? ( I am fulyl aware this is not always the case.)
So i am done with my rant. i just think that (although i feel for them and understand how frustrating it is) many UC students need to get over themselves, their pretty UC tags, and look elsewhere. Otherwise, deal.
@ladytamano How do you know they work "multiple jobs"? I hate how our lovely college students think they are entitled to not listen at all to authority. Just move back 3 steps and stand there all you want. But no, you have to cause a scene and scream 1984. Protesters, at least on the left, never learn.
looks like the riots from Greece. Socialism doesn't work, wonder if Berkeley should drop that from their required belief system. But then, entitlements is indeed the way of the democrats, people get miffed when their entitlements are played with.
The government of Maryland has made it a felony to video record police officers performing their duties. That's right - a felony. Had this video been recorded in that state, the responsible party could be sent to prison for years. Just want to make others aware that big brother has reared his ugly head in Maryland. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
The government of Maryland has made it a felony to video record police officers performing their duties. That's right - a felony. Had this video been recorded in that state, the responsible party could be sent to prison for years. Just want to make others aware that big brother has reared his ugly head in Maryland. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Learn from the world.. Look at student protests in Iran, Bulgaria, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile... If you're going to protest.. do it right... do it like you mean it... do it violently.
UCB Chancellor Birgeneau Loss of Credibility, Trust The UCB budget gap has grown to $150 million, and still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on expensive ($3 million) consultants. Contact your rep in Sacramento Now! Save the money for UCB classes.
You cannot find a job or afford college because TAXES are so high in CA. No company can afford to hire you in order to help pay for college and to make it worst they raise your tuition! CA like OBAMA is so Anti-business and loves high TAXES so they can give all the TAX revenue(stimulus) to UNION jobs catering to illegals. JOBS like cops, nurses, teachers, jail guards: UNION JOBS with big government waste! Hence no real job growth! UNIONS have bankrupt GM and GREECE, CA is to follow!
@folkmusic1991 You have to understand the reason college tuitions are so high. They are so inflated because the government will loan kids an unlimited amount of money to go to college.
Being a riot cop on a liberal campus looks like a lot of fun. Liberals spend their way into bankruptcy, have to cut back, liberals protest. Protesting the stupid by the stupid. Hilarious.
These assholes are taking up the spots of those whom have saved enough money or are willing to work while in school. They will make better employees than these communist liberal Obama shit heads.
UPD employed some particularly hurtful tactics there. It was a bit much for them to push the protesters back when they were already off of the property and not causing any sort of a riot or public hazard. To those people commenting on this video and saying that this is a direct effect of a n inefficient and unbeholden government with not will or ability enough to invest in social priorities I stand in strong agreement. The state assembly and the governors administration have become entrenched.
i really hope these protests will extend in all the usa....in italy protests against cuts of money to school had succeed very well,but i think in usa will be more difficoult let hear our voice...
@darklordleganmaximus It has nothing to do with Rep. or Dems. it has to do with the fact that the Gov. is not for the people anymore. White black or whatever it is about injustice and that is it. We lose and the people who have set up this corrupt system gain. This is a concerted effort to not educate people so they are easily controlled period. We have to forget about Rep. and Dems. doing anything except for what the have already done and that is ruin or country and or freedom. Hope this helps
HAHAHA! Im SO GLAD all you obama youth are getting your fees hiked. You socialist morons..what did you think? Did you think a bunch of democrat-run schools would cut their own salaries? Hahaha...you were duped! You stupid kids vote democrat and seal your own doom. dumbasses
What a foolish protest. I don't know if this is logical to anyone, protesting the increased tuiton by preventing around 3000 students from attending class. I'm a UC student as well, but the issue is the money needs to come from somewhere, and low-income students will have CAL Grants match the increased fees 100%. The cost of this protest to the students who payed for a day of education they never received, and the fact that it occurred after the vote on the increase make this feel like a waste.
Next time bring plenty of pepper spray, and spray it in low under those facemasks. That loosens 'em up a bit. Then have 4 people pick up each fence piece and charge those punks. That crowd could've taken 3 times that many cops with ease.
These cops want to beat people up so bad, they invent a reason to do it. As if it mattered whether people were 4 feet further back from where they put that stupid fence? One punk cop kept taking cheap shots with his nightstick through the fence. Where I'm from that earns you a beatdown.
i believe in order to truly make your point, and actually attain fair and affordable education there needs to be a complete boycott of the university system. i literally mean all students should take a semester off, work, enjoy life, save up some money. then they'd have to give in. some money is better than no damn money is how i'd view it.
The best solution would be to recall arnold or fees will continue to increase. Our state will suffer in the long run in uneducation. It's time to really stand up and unite and continue to protest and our right to education.
From the CSU Stanislaus, peace to all my brothers out there and continue the struggle, dont let the system push us around like this!!!!
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FUCK the tall people, FUCK the poe-leece, beatin' up on less tall people and exploiting the height difference. FUCK tall people. Join my facebook group, "non-tall people unite."
. Read and inform yourselves from many different media sources on all sides and be present on the front lines .Then make an informed stand if you chose. I find it terribly sad that anyone could be so inculcated by the very structures which act as oppressive forces against them that they could believe ( whatever opinion they hold of student occupations) that the police brutality of the last few days is acceptable under any circumstances. It Is Not!
Having a fire alarm pulled in the middle of class, section, or exam impairs education. Preventing thousands of students from attending class is detrimental, and contradicts the supposed cause of the protest. It is NO PERSONS RIGHT TO PREVENT ME FROM TEACHING OTHERS, OR TO STOP ME FROM ENTERING A LIBRARY! The cuts and tuition hikes are terrible. We are on the same side, but these protests are misguided.
But beating students and making school to expensive for a average working class family, isnt a violation of the same rights you put up in your arguement. How do you propose change without direct action? Where has this lack of action gotten us so far?
The incident with the police is irrelevant to the purpose and action of the protest. Justified or not (you can determine of excessive force was used) I am debating the logic and efficacy of the protest. Further, if you feel that your rights are being violated, it does not make it ok to then go ahead and violate other people's rights. The protest should be directed at the policy makes who do not have their hands tied, that can actually increase funding so cuts and fee increases are not necessary.
I hate to say it but protest are very effective. They gained us workers rights. They helped speed up the withdrawl from Vietnam. And they are the reason the french and so many other countries have governments that work for the people and not just the system. Now these protest have happened, theres international pressure on UC to make actual change. So I would say it might be an inconvienance to you but, at least they are letting people know the system is screwed up.
@ticklemetesticles the school is a private entity; they can charge whatever they want. its the system which looks to it and say "oh look, Berkley, lets hire THAT guy!" that gives it any power.
IMO, everyone just go to public schools and demand better teaching practices. What i dont understand is that facts are facts. What makes something MORE TRUE at Berkley and LESS true at a state sponsored school?
wow i just promoted state education... ew. Fuck the board of education anyways. RonPaul2012.
Where the strike needs to be targeted is toward levying taxes from the citizens of the state to fund the institution, or convince the government to divert more funds toward education, if we want UC to continue to be an academic standard of excellence. The protest attacks the wrong institution. As a GSI, this simply disrupts education, and harms the University
I really don't understand how this protest is at all effective. The University simply does not have the budget to meet the demands. The state has been divesting itself from the UC system for years now. How can you make demands to both not raise tuition and not make cuts? Ultimately, this institution belongs to the people of the state of California. Apparently, they have decided not to fund the university. Of course, this is terrible...
This is why the highways in Texas are crowded with Californnia plates with all the economic refugees here looking for work. These parasites have drained the California until there's nothing left for businesses or working people but to leave. There's work here for those who want to work but these fools need to stay in California and keep protesting.
if you're at a protest and you don't want to get hit by police, there's a pretty simple formula: move when they tell you, get that angry look off your face, don't scream at them, and for christ's sake don't push back at them like the people in this video. i don't like cops any more than the next guy, but they have a job to do and don't have time to politely reason with every undergrad who is so excited to be a protester that he can barely wait to get home and masturbate to his own self-image.
Cops have no right to physically hurt someone because that person says something they don't like. These cops were thugs and they should be prosecuted for assault.
You, who are commenting with profanity and nonsensical insults while hiding behind an anonymous username, are telling me to grow a pair? That's the pot calling the kettle a wimp.
the best way to protest all dont pay for school next year and dont go and hold out for a few years in all the campuses stick together 100% would only work
@Kazu1193 Except when they are blocking students like me from getting to the classes that I am paying thousands a year to attend
While I am not opposed to the tuition hikes and budget cuts -unlike my fellow golden bears I understand that we are in a crisis and that as a public university we are not self-sustainable and rely on tax monies - I respect my fellow students rights to protest.
But, their first amendment rights end when they encroach on another persons rights. Like me getting edu.
instead of wasting your time doing a non violent protest, you should have done a hunger strike. thats how you really fight the power and stick it to the man
mmm. good philosopher. "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. "
when the police say back up and move they need to back up. the police tried to move them, and when the protesters fought back to "hold the line" or w/e they got what was coming to them
That is very interesting to observe the situation in US from Russia.
Do you really think that the US government needs to spend anything on the national education when it can easily attact specialists from Russia, India and China? Green papers solve problems.)))
Making higher education inaccessible compromises our society's future and security. Young people have to choose between paying rent and buying their school books back in the mid-west. This is an attack against a major pillar of our civilazation. California is at the frontline of a very sinister threat that endagers all of us. California students could become a beacon of hope for young people all over America. Shine the light brightly enough and we will all support you.
Yet they barricaded themselves into a building where 3,800 students attend class. I'm going to guess that many of those 3,800 students want to attend class despite the fee hike and can't because of this occupation making this another type of violation of their right to an education. There are other methods to protest that don't affect the student body as severely.
The students have a reason to be upset but you never never touch a cop, especially in a situation like this. The cops are doing there jobs here. The beef is with the school not the LEOs
Let the students taste the tax hike by the elite establishments. I have no pity for them as they are the ones that support Obama!! There's no winners in communists!!
But in The US the HIgh education is already privatized, the Fees are high and corporations are the real owners of the System. What else do they want to privatize more?
yes and no. 4 or 5 years back, when tuition fees where introduced in Germany (right, before, there weren't any) there where huge demonstrations for weeks, thousands of people, and universities had to remain closed for quite some time due to "student strikes" and blockades. still, I don't remember ever seeing the police hit people...
These pictures could easily come from Russia or China or pretty much any part of the world. Then, of course, everybody would be complaining about the lack of human rights.
Disrupting class does not equal violence. Is it fair that the UC adminstration cut the school year short to get some meney, even though they could have easily cut elsewhere?
The protesters are making a statement. We will not stand for the privatization of education. The police clearly did not respond appropriately.
Come on people, you guys are disrupting class and getting in everybody else's way. Can't you guys use more peaceful methods? They're raising tuition, not like they're violating your basic rights. How would you like it if i started blockading your house?
I heard students repeating hold that line. Cops come push students holding a line,as the cops are telling people to move back,there is no effort made to move back,just screaming students. If done what cops said to do,there would be no problem,Look again and you will see what im talking about.
The illuminati control the schools, the best way to deal with them is to boycott school for a full year and no one go, otherwise the elites will win, they have been forcing pay increases throughout the decades. Alumni comes from Illuminati, meaning light, 13 Evil families run the world. they control the all schools, gov., courts, corporations, congress, all global leaders, they only worship the devil, Vatican is part of it.
Wow surprise surprise, the fucking liberal hiding behind the 1st amendment......wuts peacedul about heckling police who r doing their job, wuts peaceful about pulling fire alarms in classrooms and making students miss class, they cost the university and the city of berkeley a shit load of more money.....good fucking job, they made the situation worse
The only crazy shit I see is 3 cops (2 black, 1 white) taking pot-shots with the batons for ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING REASON. Are they MORONS ? - they have at least two of their own using cameras as well? They have to be the three most foolish cops in the country right now - and NO BEER SUMMIT FOR YOU ASSHOLES.
I wasn't a part of this particular protest because I felt it was ineffective. However, the actions of the police are clearly unwarranted. These students have every right under the first amendment to gather and exercise their right to free speech.
Also to those saying it's trespassing. Forgive my ignorance, but isn't the campus public property?
And not only that, the Supreme Court recently ruled that NO college may enforce specific designated areas where one can only protest, protestants may use ANY public gathering area anywhere on a campus (and obstruction or interference with classes or the normal ingress or egress
between classes - such as a stairway or hallway - was further delineated in the decision, that the protestants may not "...enter a classroom or other area where a class is being conducted, as in a specific are for a finite time period, such as by a shoreline for a biology class..."
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Those kids are trespassing. Period. And to top it off when they start swinging on cops, then they no longer have any rights to assemble. Those spoiled little brats got exactly what they deserve; a face full of night stick. Man I wish I could have been one of those cops.
Indeed they are. That school is the property of the State, when the state says to move, you get the fuck out of dodge. Ya it sucks that fees went up, deal with it. Thats life. Life isnt fair. You adapt and overcome, not cry like a little bitch.
The state is supposed to represent the people. The people of the campus and the people who pay for it through taxes. So they have every right in the world to be there. Since the government is ours and, accountable to us. The law should be used as a shield held by the people against the government. Not a sword wielded by the government over the people for there own good. What was it our founding fathers fought for?
Im a product of public education. Which is why I think there needs to be more reform. Most everything I learned I had to learn on my own. So Im sorry my punctuation doesnt meet your standard. I thought complete sentences started with capital letters? I always thought intelligent people would question ideas. Rather than attacking grammer.
In the richest natiion in the world, in state where the elite think nothing of $400+ bottles of wine, access to higher education is being restricted, privitized. Does anyone think CHina, India, the EU are reducing the number of there citizens who can attend a univerisity? National suicide!
Since 1968, after decades of progess ,the US is a nation where the rich eat first, with wealth/income disparity like no where else in the deveolped world
The cops(campus?) need better riot control training. In the National Guard they taught us the proper way to handle these situations. After Kent State there was no desire to see dead college students. We were taught that the baton could be turned into weapon of deadly force and taught how to use it properly.
That said these guys looked out of their element, nervous and scared.
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This is California's socialist utopia? I'm sure these students are in favor of all of the give-away programs and unbalanced budgets that has brought their state to this point until it costs them money. Funny how that works. As for the cops, they need bigger sticks.
Your opinion is sadly uninformed. The budget crisis at the university has nothing to do with "giveaway programs" that they are being forced to pay for. It's a much bigger, much more complex issue about CAPITALISM. So no--it has nothing to do with socialist policies, but the threat of privatization of their public education. I recommend you read into it before reciting some random anti-socialist garb on a video completely unrelated to your point.
Alas, it is the result of California's budget crisis brought about by their overspending, largely to fund some of the nations highest welfare and social benefits while taxing businesses until they've left the state while real estae vaules fall. I need only drive down any Texas highway to see the economic refugees with California plates to understand where California has taken itself..
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why do you accuse police? Cops have total reason to beat anyone who don't ovey them they are just doing their job... the real people to blame here are the people sitting in their nice chairs and making six digit numbers... they should be ousted! It's like sitting in top of the tree will always and you losing it simple as that. Just use your brain in think about it for a second!!!
oh.. so brutal.. .why man magprotest pag-au.. well, that's both sides rights... just no hitting men..
lovelplants 3 months ago
THIS IS TOTALLY POLICE BRUTALITY! Violation of human rights!
happinesson 3 months ago
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thanks for sharing this vid
potpie921 3 months ago
Dear UC Berkeley - You don't want to loss your bread and butter...do you? Golden rule, golden rule!
mowvision 3 months ago
cop in the background filming.... lol trying to protect themselves with video... there is hundreds of other angles
shrimpinpat 3 months ago
@vicrattlehead07 A lot of these kids wouldn't have been old enough to vote for Obama. And it's not the administration that's been pushing for the tuition hikes - it's the universities having to make up for the drop in tax revenue from the states, as the recession has dragged on from policies and events that started underneath the Bush administration, & even Clinton administration, coupled with student loans/grants pushed to be cut by Republicans & some Democrats.
Direness 3 months ago
Yeah, stupid hippies, they never learn. Putting flowers in the soldiers' guns weren't very effective and it seems shouting "shame on you" has as much effect when the opposition is sporting batons. Next time they should've brought their own batons and guns.
Radarmantro 4 months ago
@Radarmantro Ghandi ejected the entire British empire from India through non-violent protests and Martin Luther King revolutionized civil rights through non-violent protest. In fact 50 out 67 transitions from authoritarian government resulted from non-violent protests. The results of non-violent protests speak for themselves.
botchalism 3 months ago
Those FAT PIGS look winded from all that brutality!!!!
streetseli 5 months ago
Fucking pigs.
whateverduderdude 5 months ago
fucking hippies! It's not the 60's, no matter how hard you try.
dustylense 1 year ago
This is really sad. People that administer the system are no different from the scums in Wall Street. These fat, greedy pigs are way overpaid.
I remember I read in the newspapers a Democratic lawmaker (that's right, a DEMOCRAT) told the media that he believes some UC Berkeley professors are far from reality. One professor is able to take PAID LEAVE while working on his novel. This is fucking ridiculous! I still support Democrats, but they need to learn how to say NO to some professors.
ttiiyy 1 year ago
Why don't they just get their education on the internet from Bill Gates for free? Or don't they like Bill's educational funding for YouTube? Or is it just the lack of pot smoking from the internet education that makes them sad?
LibertyJedi 1 year ago
@LibertyJedi Reasonable people understand that the education is not free. However, the tuitions are getting too high!
And let's not forget that, after spending all the time and the money, you might still struggle to get a good job with a college degree.
Students have the rights to complain when the system is CORRUPT!
ttiiyy 1 year ago 5
poor people beating up poor people
economienda 1 year ago 4
It's UC-Berkeley. What do you expect? you want it free? huh? are you smart enough to garner those scholarships? maybe if you stop smoking pot and study more, then just maybe you will be smarter than the Medinas at Stanford.
UnitedPebbles 1 year ago
These cops need shot.
LayneRoxxx 1 year ago
@vicrattlehead07 I'm a lib-tard and I even think this is absolutely nuts. I had a good rant up at the top of these comments...maybe you would agree with what I had to say.
We are all in hard times. What do they expect? They money needs to come from somewhere. But hey, I guess as long as they get their diploma they dont mind if UC goes bankrupt in 4 years, right?
chreveir 1 year ago
1) As much as I understand NO ONE likes tuition hikes, we are in HARD ECONOMIC TIMES. Things like this happen out of desperate attempts to keep our wonderful CA education system going. What do these students want? Their schools to go bankrupt 4 years down the road? Well, hey, as long as THEY graduate, no big right?
2) UC was too expensive anyways. Yes, I could have afforded to go there, but why? UC's huge tuitions have
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made it so only higher and higher classes can join them- in a sense, privatizing them. All to subsidize research for companies. UC has lost sight of what a University is supposed to be. Its a machine now. Take em in, take their money, pump em out, repeat.
2) Because its such a machine the education quality goes down. No one would like to admit it, but UC's education is fairly...average. Hundreds of kids per class, interns, rarely seeing a professor 1v1... Students arn't special.
chreveir 1 year ago
3) States have maintained the proper view of a University (better at least) than UC. Smaller campuses, smaller classes, more pro-active professors, and an equal education to UC on half the endowment and a fraction of the tuition. I mean, really, what got lost in translation that so clearly says State is sub-par to UC? I can walk out with the same Major as someone at a UC. What makes a UC diploma better than mine? Might I add where State graduate students go? UC!
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Internships! i have sat in seminars at UCD and elsewhere only to find out the teacher was A) and intern B) IN graduate school coming from a State.
So are you not paying UC fees to be taught by an intern from State? ( I am fulyl aware this is not always the case.)
So i am done with my rant. i just think that (although i feel for them and understand how frustrating it is) many UC students need to get over themselves, their pretty UC tags, and look elsewhere. Otherwise, deal.
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Hopefully California breaks away from the rest of country then sinks drowning all the morons who live there.
313Cerberus 1 year ago
@313Cerberus You are my hero.
MegaMatthewScott 1 year ago
@ladytamano How do you know they work "multiple jobs"? I hate how our lovely college students think they are entitled to not listen at all to authority. Just move back 3 steps and stand there all you want. But no, you have to cause a scene and scream 1984. Protesters, at least on the left, never learn.
DietLite1986 1 year ago
looks like the riots from Greece. Socialism doesn't work, wonder if Berkeley should drop that from their required belief system. But then, entitlements is indeed the way of the democrats, people get miffed when their entitlements are played with.
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CaptainFreon 1 year ago
too bad they can't use pepper spray, might teach them a lesson
johndoe1880 1 year ago
@johndoe1880 What? That they should practice their first amendment right?
ScienceGuy17 1 year ago
G.I. BILL!
400lbGuerrilla 1 year ago
The government of Maryland has made it a felony to video record police officers performing their duties. That's right - a felony. Had this video been recorded in that state, the responsible party could be sent to prison for years. Just want to make others aware that big brother has reared his ugly head in Maryland. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
geomacbain 1 year ago
The government of Maryland has made it a felony to video record police officers performing their duties. That's right - a felony. Had this video been recorded in that state, the responsible party could be sent to prison for years. Just want to make others aware that big brother has reared his ugly head in Maryland. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
geomacbain 1 year ago
Learn from the world.. Look at student protests in Iran, Bulgaria, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile... If you're going to protest.. do it right... do it like you mean it... do it violently.
Zvolanek16 1 year ago
UCB Chancellor Birgeneau Loss of Credibility, Trust The UCB budget gap has grown to $150 million, and still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on expensive ($3 million) consultants. Contact your rep in Sacramento Now! Save the money for UCB classes.
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You cannot find a job or afford college because TAXES are so high in CA. No company can afford to hire you in order to help pay for college and to make it worst they raise your tuition! CA like OBAMA is so Anti-business and loves high TAXES so they can give all the TAX revenue(stimulus) to UNION jobs catering to illegals. JOBS like cops, nurses, teachers, jail guards: UNION JOBS with big government waste! Hence no real job growth! UNIONS have bankrupt GM and GREECE, CA is to follow!
UCSDEngineerDoctor 1 year ago
doesnt look peaceful... looks like the students movin on the cops
milf8707 1 year ago
Excellent video!
edprotestvideos 1 year ago
look at all these whiny kids. Figures they would be at a very liberal school.
danwk7 1 year ago
@danwk7 the fastest way to make a whiner of anyone is to threaten their wallet
ieatsuka 1 year ago
What were these students trying to accomplish? Why do they keep trying to shove past the cops?
It seems retarded to me that they keep screaming "police brutality" when the cops are obviously only trying to keep them back..
Then again, I don't know the situation - where were the students trying to go?
theNimboo 1 year ago
@folkmusic1991 You have to understand the reason college tuitions are so high. They are so inflated because the government will loan kids an unlimited amount of money to go to college.
stater68 1 year ago
Go forbid those Californians pay for their college with their own money.
stater68 1 year ago
What kind of idiots goad the police into physical conflict and then scream "police brutality!" when they push back?
Fucking moronic, if you ask me.
Shaman145 1 year ago
and if we saved $236B by deporting all illegal immigrants, the UC schools could be tuition-free
retownsend 2 years ago
Being a riot cop on a liberal campus looks like a lot of fun. Liberals spend their way into bankruptcy, have to cut back, liberals protest. Protesting the stupid by the stupid. Hilarious.
apmcmanis 2 years ago
good to use black cops to keep back marxist, white students!
ericclaptonismygod31 2 years ago
These assholes are taking up the spots of those whom have saved enough money or are willing to work while in school. They will make better employees than these communist liberal Obama shit heads.
deathtrapdeath 2 years ago
ron paul 2012 freedom vote
lovein1996 2 years ago
crimethinc 2012, REAL freedom
CodyAllenmusic 2 years ago
UPD employed some particularly hurtful tactics there. It was a bit much for them to push the protesters back when they were already off of the property and not causing any sort of a riot or public hazard. To those people commenting on this video and saying that this is a direct effect of a n inefficient and unbeholden government with not will or ability enough to invest in social priorities I stand in strong agreement. The state assembly and the governors administration have become entrenched.
yesw14 2 years ago
i really hope these protests will extend in all the usa....in italy protests against cuts of money to school had succeed very well,but i think in usa will be more difficoult let hear our voice...
carraratm 2 years ago
@darklordleganmaximus It has nothing to do with Rep. or Dems. it has to do with the fact that the Gov. is not for the people anymore. White black or whatever it is about injustice and that is it. We lose and the people who have set up this corrupt system gain. This is a concerted effort to not educate people so they are easily controlled period. We have to forget about Rep. and Dems. doing anything except for what the have already done and that is ruin or country and or freedom. Hope this helps
LGZEE 2 years ago
HAHAHA! Im SO GLAD all you obama youth are getting your fees hiked. You socialist morons..what did you think? Did you think a bunch of democrat-run schools would cut their own salaries? Hahaha...you were duped! You stupid kids vote democrat and seal your own doom. dumbasses
FukkkObama 2 years ago
The only good commie is a dead commie!
Sanjacsouth 2 years ago
What a foolish protest. I don't know if this is logical to anyone, protesting the increased tuiton by preventing around 3000 students from attending class. I'm a UC student as well, but the issue is the money needs to come from somewhere, and low-income students will have CAL Grants match the increased fees 100%. The cost of this protest to the students who payed for a day of education they never received, and the fact that it occurred after the vote on the increase make this feel like a waste.
JLlamas32 2 years ago
commies
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xghostazsnx 2 years ago
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The cops should have opened fire...as Reagan once said if there is a bloodbath well lets get it over with.
gopconservative78 2 years ago
Obama once said lets TAX people into a recession so that there is a bloodbath, so that the UNIONs can live in luxury.
UCSDEngineerDoctor 2 years ago
flawless logic
quoe1 2 years ago
Next time bring plenty of pepper spray, and spray it in low under those facemasks. That loosens 'em up a bit. Then have 4 people pick up each fence piece and charge those punks. That crowd could've taken 3 times that many cops with ease.
abbydnospam 2 years ago
Then if I was in power I would ask the military to come on campus and open fire on you protesters
gopconservative78 2 years ago
These cops want to beat people up so bad, they invent a reason to do it. As if it mattered whether people were 4 feet further back from where they put that stupid fence? One punk cop kept taking cheap shots with his nightstick through the fence. Where I'm from that earns you a beatdown.
abbydnospam 2 years ago
i believe in order to truly make your point, and actually attain fair and affordable education there needs to be a complete boycott of the university system. i literally mean all students should take a semester off, work, enjoy life, save up some money. then they'd have to give in. some money is better than no damn money is how i'd view it.
allman21 2 years ago
Change you can believe in, where is Obama?
thesoothsayers 2 years ago
The best solution would be to recall arnold or fees will continue to increase. Our state will suffer in the long run in uneducation. It's time to really stand up and unite and continue to protest and our right to education.
From the CSU Stanislaus, peace to all my brothers out there and continue the struggle, dont let the system push us around like this!!!!
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OneIrishStud 2 years ago
Those cops should be in jail.
gideonse 2 years ago
i think america needs more protests
we are too submissive to authoritative powers and we blindly follow rules
sld1025 2 years ago 2
Fair Play to the participants.... Guys...Well Done.... Really !!!! Takes courage !!! Big hello from Ireland !!!!
Pokahontas81 2 years ago 2
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FUCK the tall people, FUCK the poe-leece, beatin' up on less tall people and exploiting the height difference. FUCK tall people. Join my facebook group, "non-tall people unite."
theguyi26 2 years ago
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chumbels 2 years ago
. Read and inform yourselves from many different media sources on all sides and be present on the front lines .Then make an informed stand if you chose. I find it terribly sad that anyone could be so inculcated by the very structures which act as oppressive forces against them that they could believe ( whatever opinion they hold of student occupations) that the police brutality of the last few days is acceptable under any circumstances. It Is Not!
krystalpetrea 2 years ago 2
Having a fire alarm pulled in the middle of class, section, or exam impairs education. Preventing thousands of students from attending class is detrimental, and contradicts the supposed cause of the protest. It is NO PERSONS RIGHT TO PREVENT ME FROM TEACHING OTHERS, OR TO STOP ME FROM ENTERING A LIBRARY! The cuts and tuition hikes are terrible. We are on the same side, but these protests are misguided.
Zr0Rock 2 years ago
But beating students and making school to expensive for a average working class family, isnt a violation of the same rights you put up in your arguement. How do you propose change without direct action? Where has this lack of action gotten us so far?
ticklemetesticles 2 years ago 3
The incident with the police is irrelevant to the purpose and action of the protest. Justified or not (you can determine of excessive force was used) I am debating the logic and efficacy of the protest. Further, if you feel that your rights are being violated, it does not make it ok to then go ahead and violate other people's rights. The protest should be directed at the policy makes who do not have their hands tied, that can actually increase funding so cuts and fee increases are not necessary.
Zr0Rock 2 years ago
I hate to say it but protest are very effective. They gained us workers rights. They helped speed up the withdrawl from Vietnam. And they are the reason the french and so many other countries have governments that work for the people and not just the system. Now these protest have happened, theres international pressure on UC to make actual change. So I would say it might be an inconvienance to you but, at least they are letting people know the system is screwed up.
ticklemetesticles 2 years ago
@ticklemetesticles the school is a private entity; they can charge whatever they want. its the system which looks to it and say "oh look, Berkley, lets hire THAT guy!" that gives it any power.
IMO, everyone just go to public schools and demand better teaching practices. What i dont understand is that facts are facts. What makes something MORE TRUE at Berkley and LESS true at a state sponsored school?
wow i just promoted state education... ew. Fuck the board of education anyways. RonPaul2012.
NoahHoe 1 year ago
What else do you expect these people to do?
someotherguy560 2 years ago
Where the strike needs to be targeted is toward levying taxes from the citizens of the state to fund the institution, or convince the government to divert more funds toward education, if we want UC to continue to be an academic standard of excellence. The protest attacks the wrong institution. As a GSI, this simply disrupts education, and harms the University
Zr0Rock 2 years ago
I really don't understand how this protest is at all effective. The University simply does not have the budget to meet the demands. The state has been divesting itself from the UC system for years now. How can you make demands to both not raise tuition and not make cuts? Ultimately, this institution belongs to the people of the state of California. Apparently, they have decided not to fund the university. Of course, this is terrible...
Zr0Rock 2 years ago
Big men hitting protestors with clubs... they will get theirs sooner rather than later the way things are going.. This is America right?
backwoodsminuteman 2 years ago
This is why the highways in Texas are crowded with Californnia plates with all the economic refugees here looking for work. These parasites have drained the California until there's nothing left for businesses or working people but to leave. There's work here for those who want to work but these fools need to stay in California and keep protesting.
TexanFiveThree 2 years ago
if you're at a protest and you don't want to get hit by police, there's a pretty simple formula: move when they tell you, get that angry look off your face, don't scream at them, and for christ's sake don't push back at them like the people in this video. i don't like cops any more than the next guy, but they have a job to do and don't have time to politely reason with every undergrad who is so excited to be a protester that he can barely wait to get home and masturbate to his own self-image.
yosemiteglen1983 2 years ago 2
Cops have no right to physically hurt someone because that person says something they don't like. These cops were thugs and they should be prosecuted for assault.
gideonse 2 years ago
nut up you pussy.
scooterevan 2 years ago
You're the perfect example of why we need more funding for education. At least for typing lessons.
gideonse 2 years ago
no, i meant nut up. grow a pair. internetz tellz all.
scooterevan 2 years ago
You, who are commenting with profanity and nonsensical insults while hiding behind an anonymous username, are telling me to grow a pair? That's the pot calling the kettle a wimp.
gideonse 2 years ago
mr chives, if I may, where is the many how why mr. facetious time machine of splendor?
don't take yourself too seriously on the youtubez, I'm just busting your balls.
scooterevan 2 years ago
This comment doesn't even make sense.
RadicallyDreaming 2 years ago
1. Those cops are tough
2. Those cops are not brainwashed
3. Those cops probably are good parents.
.....JK (just kidding)!
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the best way to protest all dont pay for school next year and dont go and hold out for a few years in all the campuses stick together 100% would only work
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2009ForJesus 2 years ago
The students have the right to protest under the First Amendment!
Shame on you!
Kazu1193 2 years ago 7
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janitorc7 1 year ago
@Kazu1193 Except when they are blocking students like me from getting to the classes that I am paying thousands a year to attend
While I am not opposed to the tuition hikes and budget cuts -unlike my fellow golden bears I understand that we are in a crisis and that as a public university we are not self-sustainable and rely on tax monies - I respect my fellow students rights to protest.
But, their first amendment rights end when they encroach on another persons rights. Like me getting edu.
janitorc7 1 year ago
@Kazu1193 Yes, they are allowed to say what they want, they are not allowed to rush at police officers.
Trimbler00 1 year ago
@Trimbler00 They are allowed until they breach the bill of rights. That is everyones personal arm space.
MegaMatthewScott 1 year ago
no one was shot you frakin' retard
aGhOsToFtHeFoRmEr 2 years ago
Are you saying the police didn't shoot rubber bullets into a peaceful crowd?
wwjdCRABS 2 years ago
instead of wasting your time doing a non violent protest, you should have done a hunger strike. thats how you really fight the power and stick it to the man
Salami90210 2 years ago
mmm. good philosopher. "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. "
-Immanuel Kant
ThaOriginalGangsta77 2 years ago
Dandelionpaws i could not have put that better myself. I support those people out there. Wish i was there with them.
mr2death 2 years ago 2
all the money illegal aliens receive from social services should be used on these colleges instead.
lvll138inrs 2 years ago
when the police say back up and move they need to back up. the police tried to move them, and when the protesters fought back to "hold the line" or w/e they got what was coming to them
kmackie56 2 years ago
Make yourself a mental note: find out what "marxism" means.
john3427 2 years ago
isnt that from sociology, carl marx right?
kpbrian79 2 years ago
That is very interesting to observe the situation in US from Russia.
Do you really think that the US government needs to spend anything on the national education when it can easily attact specialists from Russia, India and China? Green papers solve problems.)))
vvm1989 2 years ago
So you want to force people to join your protest? Very enlightened.
cmbray 2 years ago
Making higher education inaccessible compromises our society's future and security. Young people have to choose between paying rent and buying their school books back in the mid-west. This is an attack against a major pillar of our civilazation. California is at the frontline of a very sinister threat that endagers all of us. California students could become a beacon of hope for young people all over America. Shine the light brightly enough and we will all support you.
dandelionpaws 2 years ago 8
Yet they barricaded themselves into a building where 3,800 students attend class. I'm going to guess that many of those 3,800 students want to attend class despite the fee hike and can't because of this occupation making this another type of violation of their right to an education. There are other methods to protest that don't affect the student body as severely.
SamuraiSmm 2 years ago
The students have a reason to be upset but you never never touch a cop, especially in a situation like this. The cops are doing there jobs here. The beef is with the school not the LEOs
pilot23 2 years ago
A.C.A.B.
raul986 2 years ago
ACAB
1prodan1 2 years ago
Let the students taste the tax hike by the elite establishments. I have no pity for them as they are the ones that support Obama!! There's no winners in communists!!
rumormater 2 years ago
But in The US the HIgh education is already privatized, the Fees are high and corporations are the real owners of the System. What else do they want to privatize more?
Spartacus74 2 years ago
aah europe its the same. too...
markindesign 2 years ago
yes and no. 4 or 5 years back, when tuition fees where introduced in Germany (right, before, there weren't any) there where huge demonstrations for weeks, thousands of people, and universities had to remain closed for quite some time due to "student strikes" and blockades. still, I don't remember ever seeing the police hit people...
of course, the tuition fees came anyway...
1salama4U 2 years ago
student protests global!
in germany its the same like this.
its your bank! its the politik! its the industrie....
global connexion!
markindesign 2 years ago
These pictures could easily come from Russia or China or pretty much any part of the world. Then, of course, everybody would be complaining about the lack of human rights.
1salama4U 2 years ago
By the way, the main tools of American "democracy" - zombie TV, a police club, napalm...
ReDDDgo 2 years ago
democracy ;)
ReDDDgo 2 years ago
Disrupting class does not equal violence. Is it fair that the UC adminstration cut the school year short to get some meney, even though they could have easily cut elsewhere?
The protesters are making a statement. We will not stand for the privatization of education. The police clearly did not respond appropriately.
drkyle54 2 years ago 2
Come on people, you guys are disrupting class and getting in everybody else's way. Can't you guys use more peaceful methods? They're raising tuition, not like they're violating your basic rights. How would you like it if i started blockading your house?
DoomGhost 2 years ago
I heard students repeating hold that line. Cops come push students holding a line,as the cops are telling people to move back,there is no effort made to move back,just screaming students. If done what cops said to do,there would be no problem,Look again and you will see what im talking about.
Nikkiblake19 2 years ago
if cops tell you to stand back, then just listen and stand back
aggieboy 2 years ago
The illuminati control the schools, the best way to deal with them is to boycott school for a full year and no one go, otherwise the elites will win, they have been forcing pay increases throughout the decades. Alumni comes from Illuminati, meaning light, 13 Evil families run the world. they control the all schools, gov., courts, corporations, congress, all global leaders, they only worship the devil, Vatican is part of it.
KamikazeKoscki 2 years ago
Monday, we should take the Life Sciences Building!
dandelionpaws 2 years ago
Our country's security rests in the integrity of its citizen's education. American higher education is broken. It's time to change it.
dandelionpaws 2 years ago 2
Wow surprise surprise, the fucking liberal hiding behind the 1st amendment......wuts peacedul about heckling police who r doing their job, wuts peaceful about pulling fire alarms in classrooms and making students miss class, they cost the university and the city of berkeley a shit load of more money.....good fucking job, they made the situation worse
NickyTballer 2 years ago
stupid government finance system ruins education for students~~~
bunnysnowy 2 years ago
Solidarity from a CMU student mass arrested at the G20 in Pittsburgh
SpaceCaseYellowFace 2 years ago 2
Is it rioting, protesting or using excessive force via protesting? There's always going to be a crazy group in crowds.
4User0name8 2 years ago
The only crazy shit I see is 3 cops (2 black, 1 white) taking pot-shots with the batons for ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING REASON. Are they MORONS ? - they have at least two of their own using cameras as well? They have to be the three most foolish cops in the country right now - and NO BEER SUMMIT FOR YOU ASSHOLES.
CoffeeBlackness 2 years ago 2
people are definitely spoiled brats for wanting their classes to be cut, to graduate on time, and to have their money not be wasted.
adelinesweetheart 2 years ago
I wasn't a part of this particular protest because I felt it was ineffective. However, the actions of the police are clearly unwarranted. These students have every right under the first amendment to gather and exercise their right to free speech.
Also to those saying it's trespassing. Forgive my ignorance, but isn't the campus public property?
lacigreen 2 years ago 6
And not only that, the Supreme Court recently ruled that NO college may enforce specific designated areas where one can only protest, protestants may use ANY public gathering area anywhere on a campus (and obstruction or interference with classes or the normal ingress or egress
CoffeeBlackness 2 years ago
between classes - such as a stairway or hallway - was further delineated in the decision, that the protestants may not "...enter a classroom or other area where a class is being conducted, as in a specific are for a finite time period, such as by a shoreline for a biology class..."
CoffeeBlackness 2 years ago
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Those kids are trespassing. Period. And to top it off when they start swinging on cops, then they no longer have any rights to assemble. Those spoiled little brats got exactly what they deserve; a face full of night stick. Man I wish I could have been one of those cops.
ravenxcult 2 years ago
No they are not. You do not know what you are talking about. Again.
CoffeeBlackness 2 years ago
Indeed they are. That school is the property of the State, when the state says to move, you get the fuck out of dodge. Ya it sucks that fees went up, deal with it. Thats life. Life isnt fair. You adapt and overcome, not cry like a little bitch.
ravenxcult 2 years ago
You may be saying that because the increase in tuition price does not apply to you. That's fine. Just think about YOUR reaction to increased taxes.
littleplump 2 years ago
Actually my fees did go up, and to be honest with you, so have my taxes. Check....and mate.
ravenxcult 2 years ago
The state is supposed to represent the people. The people of the campus and the people who pay for it through taxes. So they have every right in the world to be there. Since the government is ours and, accountable to us. The law should be used as a shield held by the people against the government. Not a sword wielded by the government over the people for there own good. What was it our founding fathers fought for?
ticklemetesticles 2 years ago
yeah.. before you try to sound smart, you should learn how to write complete sentences.
frankc91 2 years ago
Im a product of public education. Which is why I think there needs to be more reform. Most everything I learned I had to learn on my own. So Im sorry my punctuation doesnt meet your standard. I thought complete sentences started with capital letters? I always thought intelligent people would question ideas. Rather than attacking grammer.
ticklemetesticles 2 years ago
I hope things can turn out for the better, thank god for out dedicated professors.
berkeley0 2 years ago 4
yep, your right
badbadkingjohn 2 years ago
thank god for these students!! God bless them!
In the richest natiion in the world, in state where the elite think nothing of $400+ bottles of wine, access to higher education is being restricted, privitized. Does anyone think CHina, India, the EU are reducing the number of there citizens who can attend a univerisity? National suicide!
Since 1968, after decades of progess ,the US is a nation where the rich eat first, with wealth/income disparity like no where else in the deveolped world
badbadkingjohn 2 years ago 5
its freedom but they are wasting peoples time and money who needed to attend class -.-
jobeth101 2 years ago
The protesters are a bunch of spoiled brats.
The cops(campus?) need better riot control training. In the National Guard they taught us the proper way to handle these situations. After Kent State there was no desire to see dead college students. We were taught that the baton could be turned into weapon of deadly force and taught how to use it properly.
That said these guys looked out of their element, nervous and scared.
brianobx 2 years ago
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This is California's socialist utopia? I'm sure these students are in favor of all of the give-away programs and unbalanced budgets that has brought their state to this point until it costs them money. Funny how that works. As for the cops, they need bigger sticks.
TexanFiveThree 2 years ago
Your opinion is sadly uninformed. The budget crisis at the university has nothing to do with "giveaway programs" that they are being forced to pay for. It's a much bigger, much more complex issue about CAPITALISM. So no--it has nothing to do with socialist policies, but the threat of privatization of their public education. I recommend you read into it before reciting some random anti-socialist garb on a video completely unrelated to your point.
lacigreen 2 years ago 7
Alas, it is the result of California's budget crisis brought about by their overspending, largely to fund some of the nations highest welfare and social benefits while taxing businesses until they've left the state while real estae vaules fall. I need only drive down any Texas highway to see the economic refugees with California plates to understand where California has taken itself..
TexanFiveThree 2 years ago
I find it hilarious that you have "Texan" in your name and said the cops need bigger sticks. You certainly live up to stereotypes.
RadicallyDreaming 2 years ago
The US democracy in action,they are spending billions of dollars to do the same in Iraq and Afganistan.Shame....
jeffoxen 2 years ago
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why do you accuse police? Cops have total reason to beat anyone who don't ovey them they are just doing their job... the real people to blame here are the people sitting in their nice chairs and making six digit numbers... they should be ousted! It's like sitting in top of the tree will always and you losing it simple as that. Just use your brain in think about it for a second!!!
AND838 2 years ago
They are just playing to the cameras.
phototristan 2 years ago
i thought, it's a country of freedom!!!
123yaya000 2 years ago
Looks like they brought in cops from communist china and Angola.
desertscorcher 2 years ago 3
Umm does anyone notice the officer beating one of the kids in the front... How is that right???
BigInJapan25 2 years ago 3