A roundup of what I’ve been able to glean so far. I’ll be updating this as we go. For an overview of the day’s events, check out the October 7 Google map, which currently lists nearly seventy actions in more than twenty states.
UC Berkeley
The Daily Cal is liveblogging. The crowd in front of Sproul Hall is estimated at 1000 or more. Berkeley folks are active on Twitter. Some fire alarms have been pulled in campus buildings.
4:40 ET | The Berkeley rally has turned into a sit-in. New post here.
UC System-Wide
Activists are staging an attempted DDOS — disributed denial of service — attack on the website of the offices of the UC president, attempting to crash the site.
UC San Diego
The @JusticeUCSD Twitter account is live-tweeting consistently. Claims 350-plus participants in rally and teach-out. Die-in at chancellor’s office shortly after noon Pacific time.
Yale University
Students from Yale University are staging a march on the New Haven Police Department today to file civil complaints after a raid on a downtown club last weekend in which students allege police punched and kicked a student for no reason.
UC Davis
A report on Twitter says that “about 80” students are staging a sit-in at Mrak Hall, the UC Davis administration building.
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October 7, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Wes Strong
We are syndicationg twitter posts on the national website – use any of the following tags:
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Official October 7th Twitter page: http://twitter.com/forpublicedoct7