A Series of Tubes

Update: I have a picture, below, and a video, at the end.

Photo from indybay.

The Occupiers have moved from occupying the Graduate Student Commons to Occupying the Dean of Social Sciences. There are two statements for the occupation that I found, one on indybay and one on occupyca. There is also a facebook group despite facebook being a company that plans to make money using the personal information of its users to sell to advertisers, but I’ll try to stay more positive since the occupiers appear to have moved up the food chain, closer to those more responsible for budget and salary decisions at UCSC.

This building is actually owned by the University and not by graduate students so there is a much greater urgency for the University to respond.  The University will also have lawyers ready to prosecute the occupiers, so there is a greater chance that the administration will send police in with orders to make arrests.  After the first occupation, the police will be on high alert, giving them a faster response time to a second occupation.  As I write and research this I found that it is already over, and the police already responded!  The second occupation didn’t last 1 day.  That is what happens when you occupy a building the university cares about.

Here is a video (poor quality probably due to it being dark outside and the camera used was probably on someone’s phone, but you can still hear the action):