Pictures don’t match chancellor’s words
This is an open letter to Chancellor Katehi at UC Davis.
Dear Chancellor:
Your justification for Friday’s attack on student protestors was that their camp had to be removed because it violated health and safety regulations. Nonsense! It was the police attack you authorized that jeopardized health and safety.
Dismantling a camp wasn’t what we saw in photos and video. It was pepper spraying passive resistors sitting on a sidewalk. I call for your resignation, for firing your police chief, and for the City of Davis to withdraw from the existing agreement to come to your police force’s aid.
In Mario Savio’s words, “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious — makes you so sick at heart — that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
June Forbes
Davis
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on Nov 22 2011.
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