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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Calligraph421 BT">Sounds like a movie about Kent State .
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Calligraph421 BT">bottom line it is not okay . . .
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Calligraph421 BT">you have my full support . . .
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Calligraph421 BT">good letter . . . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>all for now . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>Joe Powers</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Personal sites: <BR><A
href="http://web.mac.com/codypowers/joepowers">http://web.mac.com/codypowers/joepowers</A><BR><A
href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-powers/12/73a/392">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-powers/12/73a/392</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Cody Powers Films: <A
href="http://www.codypowersfilms.com/">http://www.codypowersfilms.com/</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rachelle.a.cruz@gmail.com
href="mailto:rachelle.a.cruz@gmail.com">Rachelle Cruz</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu
href="mailto:cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu">Mfa Listserve</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 23, 2012 9:37
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CW-Grad] CWPA students react to
UC Regents Protest</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=georgia,serif>Dear CWPA students, alumni, faculty
and staff,<BR><BR>Andrea Gutierrez and I have drafted a letter to Chancellor
White in response to last Thursday's UC Regents Meeting and protest on
campus. <BR><BR>We would love your feedback, support, signature, and/or
anything else to strengthen our voice and concerns regarding police presence
and brutality at UCR, students' rights to assemble, and the Occupy Movement on
campus.<BR><BR>The letter is both attached to this email and pasted
below.<BR><BR>Thank you!<BR><BR>Best,<BR>Rachelle Cruz<BR>Andrea
Gutierrez<BR><BR>***<BR><BR></FONT><SPAN
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id=internal-source-marker_0.2893760826502427>January 22, 2012</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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Chancellor White,</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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graduate students and teaching assistants in the MFA Program for Creative
Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, we are deeply disappointed and
ashamed by the actions taken by the University this past Thursday.
</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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of us participated in the campus-wide action of students across the UC system,
faculty and staff outside of the HUB, while the UC Regents continued their
meeting in privacy. This day-long action was indeed an expression of
outrage over rising tuition and depreciating quality of education. It
was also a celebration of community and solidarity. </SPAN><BR><SPAN
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witnessed our students chanting or engaging in discussion about the grim
future of UC Riverside and their disappearing classes; for many of them, this
was their first political protest. One of our students, a mother of two,
brought her three-year-old daughter. This student lamented forgetting to
dress her daughter in her Highlander shirt. She wanted her daughter to
bear witness to the fight for her future education.</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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witnessed UCR students and community members dressed in black bearing
colorful, lifesize banners depicting the book covers of liberatory texts.
These books envision equality and freedom and question privilege
and cultural hegemony, such as Franz Fanon’s </SPAN><SPAN
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Wretched of the Earth</SPAN><SPAN
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bell hooks’ </SPAN><SPAN
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is for Everyone, </SPAN><SPAN
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Freire’s </SPAN><SPAN
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for the Oppressed</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN
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others. The book bloc remained at the front of the line, facing the
staggering number of riot police at the HUB exit and protecting protesters
from police violence. We couldn’t help but recognize the clear metaphor
in all of this. </SPAN><BR><SPAN
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what your </SPAN><SPAN
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Letter</SPAN><SPAN
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states, there were more than just a “few” individuals at this action. We
witnessed hundreds of students, faculty, and staff who merely wanted to engage
in an open discussion with the UC Regents. As police helicopters circled
above us, we witnessed our students (</SPAN><SPAN
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pushed, shoved and humiliated by riot police because of this desire to
converse and be heard by the Regents. We witnessed members of our
community shot by riot police with pellet guns; one young man was knocked to
the ground by the shock and force of the pellets. We witnessed sheer
violence by your “co-workers,” the police who treated your students like the
Asian Citrus Psyllids plaguing the orange groves at UCR and throughout
Southern California.</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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“few individuals” who peacefully disrupted the UC Regents Meeting represents
more than a handful of marginal opinions. These “few individuals”
exercised an essential act of civil disobedience and represent many of us in
the UC Riverside and UC community who are fed up with business as usual.
</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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urge you to provide opportunities for students to engage in dialogue about
last Thursday’s events and the implications behind police presence as the
University’s response to student assembly and protest. We urge you to
take responsibility for putting your students’ safety on the line. We
urge you to ensure their safety and right to express their discontent with the
UC system by supporting future student actions. </SPAN><BR><SPAN
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of the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing
Arts</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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Cruz</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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