Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social

Just to be clear:

1. If you attended a UC school, please contact the board of regents. They're meeting NOW, so it's the perfect time.

regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/contact/

2. If you're a UCI grad? Raise hell w/ the alumni office + email Gillman.

3. If you live in Irvine? Call City Hall.

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Claire 🐝 @isolinearchip.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 00:25 UTC

Done. As a Berkeley alum I reminded them that this was all litigated back in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement and that they ought to live by the lessons they've already learned. And also to chill out with the cops, of course

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 23:32 UTC

For those who live local, the mayor is out of town (as I understand it), as is the vice mayor.

The mayor got a lot of kudos for telling police to not interfere with first amendment rights last month, so... call on her to keep her promise.

(Source: www.cnn.com/business/liv... )

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 23:39 UTC

I just contacted them. Awful and thank you for suggesting this course of action.

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Anne @annemdelgado.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 03:36 UTC

I know I’m late, but I emailed the regents. I went to UCSB and reminded them of the BSU takeover of North Hall in 1968 and the Bank of America burning in 1970, and how neither was met with this kind of response. Also, they’re still the butt of jokes about how they handled the bank burning

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 23:31 UTC

Sent. I was an alumnus of UCR and I praised their handling and demanded why UCSD, UCI, and UCLA can’t get their shit together (in nicer but no less scathing words).

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SRSOS @srsos.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 00:08 UTC

thanks celeste, for keeping peeps informed.

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Gwynne Garfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 03:05 UTC

I just emailed them. (I was a student at UCLA at the height of the anti-apartheid protests, which, needless to say, did not get treated like this.)

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froggher @azaleastardust.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 23:28 UTC

is this the email you are referring to?

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