Students to March in Solidarity with the US Bank Blockaders

The following email was forwarded to me by a UC Davis student who received it on a listserv for a class she took in 2009. "I would assume many more students have received this same email," she noted. 

The crux of the email: A march has been planned in solidarity with the 12 people being for the recent US Bank protests. Here's the email:

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Over the course of three months, student and faculty demonstrators blockaded the business of the US Bank branch on campus to protest the substitution of private contracts for public funding of the University of California and the direct relationship between bank-subsidized student loans and tuition hikes. This daily action eventually caused the cancellation of the bank’s contract with UC Davis- a small but definite victory against the inordinate cost of ostensibly 'public' education, massive student loan debt, and the continuing privatization of the university. 

In the aftermath of this success, twelve bank blockaders ordering them to appear on over 20 counts of . Demonstrators at UC Berkeley received similar letters four months after the November 9th demonstrations, where police officers beat students for protesting the state of public education. 

This pattern of retroactive repression is the administration’s newest tool to avoid the backlash and negative media attention that followed the infamous pepper spray incident of November 18th. This approach seeks not only to punish specific demonstrators but also to send a clear message to all university students: If you protest, we will prosecute; speak out and you will be silenced. 

We will not be intimidated! Let's rally on the quad in solidarity with the Davis Dozen and to celebrate the closure of US Bank at UCD!