A Series of Tubes

4:30 Update:  The occupiers have left!  You can read about it at the Santa cruz sentenel.  No postings yet on indymedia.  I found a post here.  Looks like the manifestation to express anger was code for “we want to steal from the bookstore”.  Turns out that you cannot order random people to commit petty theft with cops nearby.  Shocking.

The Graduate Student Association is preparing to hold its first meeting tonight. On the agenda is the occupation of the GSC and the meeting is supposed to happen at the currently occupied GSC. The agenda talks about the occupation in the past tense, meaning that the Graduate Student Association expects the occupation to be over some time before the meeting starts.  Should be interesting.

The occupiers have been keeping busy by holding another dance party last night. I have not seen pictures of said party, but I’m guessing that the attendance was less than the original.  I would expect no images of this second dance party to emerge or for pictures of the original and more widely attended original party to be recycled.  Edit: Pictures of the second dance party were posted (as pointed out by the commenter below).  I posted links to some of the pictures in my wrap up post. This afternoon the Occupiers planned “A manifestation to express our anger that… we have to pay tons of money for our books.”  Manifestation is a synonym for expression so the occupiers plan on expressing an expression and that expression will be anger.  I’m hoping that they use the apple text to speech program again for said expression.  I wasn’t around to witness this expression of expressions at noon today, but I’ll just assume that the computer spoke the wonderfully glorious words detailing our future Utopian Communist society.

Indymedia has no update on things at the GSC so I’ll assume they are still there.  I will stop by near the beginning of the meeting to see if anything has changed.