The Occupy CA blog is reporting that hundreds of students swarmed an under-construction building on the UC Berkeley campus late last night, then moved out of the building and into the streets. As of three o’clock in the morning the blog was reporting that hundreds were still in the streets, that trash cans and a dumpster had been set on fire, and that there had been two arrests. Rioters were said to outnumber police ten to one.
An online article in the Daily Cal student newspaper says that the window of a Subway sandwich shop has been broken, and that rioters have thrown trash and other objects at police.
Update | Occupy CA and the Daily Cal are both reporting that the riot broke up at about three in the morning, apparently with minimal arrests.
Morning update | Occupy CA has posted a detailed narrative account of the riot, and the site Reclaim UC has the communique issued by the organizers of the Durant Hall occupation that set events in motion.
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February 26, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Defiant
This kind of protest is very rare in states like Louisiana. We are overwhelmed by conservative propaganda and the majority of students don’t seem to care about education rights. I am organizing a defend education rally on march 4th and so far out of a school of 15,000 about 30 people say they are going to attend. Our media has yet to mention anything about the protest in CA. This control of information is going to be the death of our educational system and our universities will just become another diploma mill…