One year ago today a student protest action took place in Canada that was, as I put it at the time, “unlike anything I’d ever heard of before.” Here’s how I described it then:
Student activists and others at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, a Canadian university some seventy miles northwest of Seattle, held a teach-out on “food democracy” and sustainability issues. There was music, a slate of speakers, pamphlets to read, and tea. At the end of the event the group planted a garden.
On the lawn.
In front of the library.
They ripped up the sod, built some raised beds, and planted a variety of vegetables and other native plants. They planted, they mulched, they designed rock borders. They put up fences to keep rabbits out.
On the lawn of the quad, in front of the library.
There’s a symposium about that action — which was hugely controversial in the campus community — being held on the U Vic campus tomorrow. And though organizers have been circumspect about the details, there’s apparently some sort of follow-up action happening today.
More as I get it.
studentactivism.net 
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March 24, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Nate
Hope they have to pay for any damage they do to the campus.
March 24, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Erin G
Hope the college compensates them for the enhancement of the campus.
March 24, 2011 at 5:58 pm
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April 4, 2011 at 11:00 am
MM McGee
The student activists in my dept at U of MN think Food Not Bombs is racist because it’s largely white people helping people of color. The student activists in my dept are, of course, idiotic, class privileged numbskulls who whine about their lives of leisure endlessly. Food Not Bombs is one of the few anarchist activist organizations that deserve respect.