3.16.2009
protests @ 7:46 PM
Coming from a school that reputedly protests everything, I find it hard to place myself on the spectrum that measures activism. I've heard (several times) that only in Berkeley will you have a team to build an atomic bomb and have the students to protest it. Is it still true, or have the student activists become ghosts of Berkeley's past?
Berkeley student above Sather Gate, circa 1969
Berkeley tree-sitter, 2008
I had a conversation with someone about some protest on Lower Sproul some days ago.
"Did you see the people protesting?"
"Yeah, they were standing right outside of Bear's Lair?"
"Yeah, wearing skirts to protest against the skirt-assaulting pervert?"
"No, I'm talking about the protest against Panda Express."
You know you are in Berkeley when your choice of which cause to join is as vast as the combinations of routes to get from one building to another. =)
"Did you see the people protesting?"
"Yeah, they were standing right outside of Bear's Lair?"
"Yeah, wearing skirts to protest against the skirt-assaulting pervert?"
"No, I'm talking about the protest against Panda Express."
You know you are in Berkeley when your choice of which cause to join is as vast as the combinations of routes to get from one building to another. =)
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