Regarding this post, I want to speak to the point made in the Bruin (and by others) that the UCLA Campbell occupation was done by a small group of privileged white students with no connection to UCLA. This is not true.

The meetings and discussions leading up to what happened on Thursday included a large and diverse group of people from the UCLA community – the core group of organizers was UCLA-based and very ethnically diverse.

I suppose a better job could have been done communicating with some of the folks that use Campbell Hall, but the fact is, a building occupation anywhere on campus is going to interrupt things for some people. Any mistakes made in this area were made in good faith by good people – I don’t know if I can say the same about some of the criticism of that action I’ve been hearing (calling the occupiers “colonialists” or some such, for example – such accusations only serve the police and the administrators).