Brenda Hillman - Bookworm on KCRW

Brenda Hillman - Bookworm on KCRW

UC Protests

Schwarzenegger Seeks Shift From Prisons to Schools

“Those protests on the U.C. campuses were the tipping point,” the governor’s chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, said in an interview after the speech. “Our university system is going to get the support it deserves.”

It's good to see that large, sustained, strategic protests can make an impact through and for our university systems. Let's see other states keep this model rolling! (And California actually follow through with its pledges...)

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