<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>Add my name please . Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Hernandez <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 26, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Brian Marcelo <<a href="mailto:brianmarcelo@gmail.com">brianmarcelo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Rachelle and Andrea,<div><br></div><div>Add me too. Very succinct and well-written letter.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Brian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:00 PM, David Lopez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dlope015@ucr.edu">dlope015@ucr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Rachelle and Andrea--<br>
<br>
By all means, please include my name on the letter. Thank you for<br>
being proactive on this matter.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
David Lopez<br>
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On 1/24/12, Tanya Frank <<a href="mailto:tanfrank@me.com">tanfrank@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Mine too comrades!<br>
><br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPhone<br>
><br>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 12:23 PM, David Campos <<a href="mailto:dcamp009@ucr.edu">dcamp009@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Please add my name to the letter.<br>
>><br>
>> Instead of marching around the students to take their positions, the<br>
>> officers marched directly through the crowd as if they wanted to<br>
>> incite violence. I was there, afraid, as I saw them using their batons<br>
>> to push students out of the way. One Sheriff, the name tag read<br>
>> Martinez, stabbed one student in the chest with his baton just to get<br>
>> him out of the way. I was further terrified when, six to seven feet<br>
>> away from me, the police started firing paint balls. At that moment I<br>
>> ran away unsure what other methods they were willing to employ. I do<br>
>> not believe these tactics were necessary.<br>
>><br>
>> Add my name to the letter,<br>
>><br>
>> David Campos<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Joe Powers <<a href="mailto:Joe.Powers@sbcglobal.net">Joe.Powers@sbcglobal.net</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>> Sounds like a movie about Kent State . . .<br>
>>><br>
>>> bottom line it is not okay . . .<br>
>>><br>
>>> you have my full support . . .<br>
>>><br>
>>> good letter . . .<br>
>>><br>
>>> all for now . . .<br>
>>><br>
>>> Joe Powers<br>
>>><br>
>>> Personal sites:<br>
>>> <a href="http://web.mac.com/codypowers/joepowers" target="_blank">http://web.mac.com/codypowers/joepowers</a><br>
>>> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-powers/12/73a/392" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-powers/12/73a/392</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Cody Powers Films: <a href="http://www.codypowersfilms.com/" target="_blank">http://www.codypowersfilms.com/</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>>> From: Rachelle Cruz<br>
>>> To: Mfa Listserve<br>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:37 PM<br>
>>> Subject: [CW-Grad] CWPA students react to UC Regents Protest<br>
>>><br>
>>> Dear CWPA students, alumni, faculty and staff,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Andrea Gutierrez and I have drafted a letter to Chancellor White in<br>
>>> response<br>
>>> 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<br>
>>> strengthen our voice and concerns regarding police presence and brutality<br>
>>> at<br>
>>> 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>
>>> January 22, 2012<br>
>>><br>
>>> Dear Chancellor White,<br>
>>><br>
>>> As graduate students and teaching assistants in the MFA Program for<br>
>>> Creative<br>
>>> Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, we are deeply disappointed<br>
>>> and<br>
>>> ashamed by the actions taken by the University this past Thursday.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Many of us participated in the campus-wide action of students across the<br>
>>> UC<br>
>>> system, faculty and staff outside of the HUB, while the UC Regents<br>
>>> continued<br>
>>> their meeting in privacy. This day-long action was indeed an expression<br>
>>> of<br>
>>> outrage over rising tuition and depreciating quality of education. It<br>
>>> was<br>
>>> also a celebration of community and solidarity.<br>
>>><br>
>>> We witnessed our students chanting or engaging in discussion about the<br>
>>> grim<br>
>>> future of UC Riverside and their disappearing classes; for many of them,<br>
>>> this was their first political protest. One of our students, a mother of<br>
>>> two, brought her three-year-old daughter. This student lamented<br>
>>> forgetting<br>
>>> to dress her daughter in her Highlander shirt. She wanted her daughter<br>
>>> to<br>
>>> bear witness to the fight for her future education.<br>
>>><br>
>>> We witnessed UCR students and community members dressed in black bearing<br>
>>> colorful, lifesize banners depicting the book covers of liberatory texts.<br>
>>> These books envision equality and freedom and question privilege and<br>
>>> cultural hegemony, such as Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, bell<br>
>>> hooks’ Feminism is for Everyone, Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy for the<br>
>>> Oppressed,<br>
>>> among others. The book bloc remained at the front of the line, facing<br>
>>> the<br>
>>> staggering number of riot police at the HUB exit and protecting<br>
>>> protesters<br>
>>> from police violence. We couldn’t help but recognize the clear metaphor<br>
>>> in<br>
>>> all of this.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Despite what your Friday Letter states, there were more than just a “few”<br>
>>> individuals at this action. We witnessed hundreds of students, faculty,<br>
>>> and<br>
>>> staff who merely wanted to engage in an open discussion with the UC<br>
>>> Regents.<br>
>>> As police helicopters circled above us, we witnessed our students (your<br>
>>> students) pushed, shoved and humiliated by riot police because of this<br>
>>> desire to converse and be heard by the Regents. We witnessed members of<br>
>>> our<br>
>>> community shot by riot police with pellet guns; one young man was knocked<br>
>>> to<br>
>>> the ground by the shock and force of the pellets. We witnessed sheer<br>
>>> violence by your “co-workers,” the police who treated your students like<br>
>>> the<br>
>>> Asian Citrus Psyllids plaguing the orange groves at UCR and throughout<br>
>>> Southern California.<br>
>>><br>
>>> The “few individuals” who peacefully disrupted the UC Regents Meeting<br>
>>> represents more than a handful of marginal opinions. These “few<br>
>>> individuals” exercised an essential act of civil disobedience and<br>
>>> represent<br>
>>> many of us in the UC Riverside and UC community who are fed up with<br>
>>> business<br>
>>> as usual.<br>
>>><br>
>>> We urge you to provide opportunities for students to engage in dialogue<br>
>>> about last Thursday’s events and the implications behind police presence<br>
>>> as<br>
>>> the University’s response to student assembly and protest. We urge you<br>
>>> to<br>
>>> take responsibility for putting your students’ safety on the line. We<br>
>>> urge<br>
>>> you to ensure their safety and right to express their discontent with the<br>
>>> UC<br>
>>> system by supporting future student actions.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Sincerely,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Students of the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Writing for the<br>
>>> Performing Arts<br>
>>><br>
>>> Rachelle Cruz<br>
>>> Andrea Gutierrez<br>
>>><br>
>>> *****<br>
>>> Rachelle Cruz,<br>
>>> Host of "The Blood-Jet Writing Hour" Radio Show<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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>>><br>
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