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WIKI POST #3 Elizabeth Watters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfDlogicX1o&feature=fvsr For the March 4th day of action, I watched a YouTube video titled 'Millions Protest Education Cuts in California'. This video was about the action taken my students and teachers all throughout California on March 4th, 2010. In this particular video, large crowds of people engage in repetitive chants, carry signs with strong words on them, and march with a purpose; that purpose being: to make a difference. I learned from this video that rallies were held in large cities across the state, from San Francisco to Los Angeles. An example of a phrase written on a marcher's sign in this video is "Bail out students not banks." Things they are fighting for in this video include their education, no more student fee increases, the return of their teachers, and to not have classes of 500 students to one teacher. When comparing the protests shown in this video to the one we had at our school, California State University, Chico, I felt slightly ashamed. I feel that our rally didn't have much spirit; most people who attended the rally seemed to be there because their teacher of the class they were in during the rally forced them to be. I wish that our rally had had more chanting and marching. I enjoyed this video that i watched on youtube because it showed me that people everywhere were doing the same thing as me and my class on that day, March 4th 2010, and it helped me to feel a little bit closer to college students all over the state. I am hoping that we have more days like this, where our school can come together and try to make a difference. The fee increases at Chico State, and every college everywhere need to subside. There are many things we can do to make a difference, and to stop this from happening, and we need to do it soon before every college student in the state is in debt.

Wiki Post #3 Katrina Byrd [] Regarding the March 4th day of action, I decided to watch a video rather than reading an article for the simple reason that a picture is worth a thousand words, so a video must be worth even more. The video I watched was about the protest in San Francisco. They did a three-mile walk to downtown to protest the 32% increase in school tuition. There looked to be thousands of people all very outraged at the tuition increase. I instantly compared their protest to the one we had at CSU Chico. They were similar but the scale was much. They both had similar signs having to do with Jail and fighting for our education. However, San Francisco’s was much much larger. Also the 3 mile walk they did was very symbolic and showed that they really cared. At the end of the video, there were some words about the tuition increase, and it said the way to stop it all is to fight back. Sadly, I don’t think that this is really true. The state doesn’t have enough money to do much about the tuition increases. And little protests aren’t going to do that much. Hopefully the state finds money to put into higher education. I doubt though that it will have any affect on our education because by the time they get it all sorted out we will have already graduated.

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[] This is a very well article providing insite from people outside of california, as well from people inside of leadership positions and facuilty members. How ever what the author includes for the reasons of the rallys mind boggeled me. " March 4, University of California students take to the streets on thursday to protest fee hikes, campus racism, and what they call privatization of the public system that was a becon for the state in the 1960's" I had no idea that racism was a part of the whole problem. It did mention about the affirmative action program that was implimented in 1996, but thats a whole other story. Where the marches are planned are very stragetic in themselves. They were held at Berkeley "the 1960's protest hub", LA, sacramento, and also campuses of state universities inside and outside of the UC system. Berkeley is a very import campus the the UC system but also happens to be one of the most liberal campus, i think probably in the united states. I dont experience this myself at CSU Chico, but there are racisit acts including swastika and anti gay graffiti that have afflicted the moods on campuses around the state. I think the most important passage of this whole article is the fact that in 1960, when the state was building its major roadways and large water and irrigation system to turn deserts into green valleys, there wasnt a fee hike in education. So why is there one now, when we arent building anything but a defficet. Yet whenever there is problem, some how the politions come into place, saying that they will fix the problem. The author says that this crisis is going to offer the electorate and people of ca an opprotunity to once again stand up for what they believe in. If students see politcians supporting and marching with students from accross the state, they know that when election time comes around that we will be more likely to vote for them, and who knows they might be true.

Trevor Bay Wikipost #3 __[|www.youtube.com/watch?v=egxDkUL1kDU]__ I watched a YouTube video on the protests that were being held on the March 4th Day of Action in CSU San Bernardino. I thought it was very courageous and cool that students, faculty, and staff would protest for their education/work. There were hundreds or maybe even thousands protesting in front of the school and in the streets. They had picket fences saying “we deserve education” and “no more budget cuts for education.” The main points the narrator made were about the tuition cost steadily increasing and that only the wealthy income class are going to be able to be enrolled in school. The narrator mentioned that higher education is only given 5.7% of the states income and that higher education deserves more than that. I think to make their protest better they could have marched downtown or went in front of someone important in the town that could make changes. But overall it was a pretty safe, powerful protest. When I think of protests I think of riots breaking out, and though that has occurred in California on this day of action, there were no riots or people acting violent at this San Bernardino campus. Watching this video and some other videos I looked up online has motivated me to go out and protest for my institution and my most importantly, my education. I think here in Chico we need to protest to fight for our education because I have learned from this class, videos, and readings that my education is worth fighting for.

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Crazy College Protester Goes Off In Interview []

This video footage was taken on March 4th 2010 during he National Day of Action to Defend Education at the campus of the University of California Davis. The footage is a short 18 second clip taken from an AGTV (UC Davis' student television program) news reel. During the first portion of the video there are segments of people dancing in a jumping and forward moving fashion with their homemade protest signs in hand, mandatory drum circle included. Drummer Mickey Hart once stated: “Typically, people gather to drum in drum "circles" with others from the surrounding community. The drum circle offers equality because there is no head or tail. It includes people of all ages. The main objective is to share rhythm and get in tune with each other and themselves. To form a group consciousness. To entrain and resonate. By entrainment, I mean that a new voice, a collective voice, emerges from the group as they drum together.” This amazing footage is accompanied with an Asian correspondent's report on the protest. Her descriptions of the event match up with the footage fairly accurately. The second half of the video focuses on the spirit and drive of one particularly dedicated female protester. This unfortunately short interview with the female protester is deeply moving. From her words to her actions, her body language, the tone of voice, everything about this person's dedication amazes me. The art of protesting takes gustos, skill, determination, fist pumping and finger pointing. Quote from video: “This chalk represents everyone's struggle. That spraypaint represents us, united.” Powerful words. Please enjoy, "Crazy College Protester Goes Off In Interview" via youtube user: trytej.

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Thousands gathered at and around the state capitol on March fourth to rally against the budget cuts and furlough days. The article that I chose, stated that the day was relatively peaceful, except for the arrests that totaled to about 150 protestors. Also, when the rally backed up five o’ clock traffic, a protestor accidently fell off the freeway, and onto a road below. Although the protestor was fine, this shows how a few of the people attending got a little out-of-hand. Protestors included students, labor unions, and activist groups who represented elementary schools all the way to universities. I was mostly interested in how the governor would respond to the rallying. Schwarzenegger stated that he wants to propose a constitutional amendment that would grant more money to the higher education system instead of the state’s prison system. Parents were also attending in great numbers as well as students. One mother of three college students said that even wore a “Pissed off Parent” t-shirt. One thing that I completely agree with is the fact of laying off teachers and the fact that this greatly pushes back graduation dates. In turn, this forces students to pay more because they have to be in college for longer. Almost 19,000 pink slips have been handed out to teachers, causing major problems. Back to the rally on the fourth, commentators state that the rally was mostly peaceful except for certain protestors going too far. I think that this is how the protest in Chico is going to go down. Most people will be peacefully but hopefully we wont have any major clashes with the police.

Katie Corey Wiki post #3 [] An article that I found on the March 4th national day of action was an article by Labor Notes, by Paul Abowd. This article focused on the day of action and how it rippled throughout California. This article describes all the different actions students, teachers, and administrators took on the day of action. Some of these actions include blocking entrances to schools, and joining k-12 schools in marches downtown. This article also focused on the $17 billion budget cuts in schools funding, and how people in 32 states participated in this day of action. Abowd also addresses the problems that have occurred due to the drastic budget cuts. Problems such as furloughs, spiked student fees, layoffs, and overcrowded classrooms. Some of the things this article did not mention however, were the possible solutions to decrease the high cost of tuition. Sure, there were marches, and walk-outs, and blocking of school entrances, but does that really bring money back into California funding for school? The article also lacked more about the day of action itself, and seemed to be more focused on why the day of action took place. Some of the images that were used in this article were pictures of big groups of people at the actual rally with their speaker phones, looking like they’re yelling and protesting. I would say that these pictures are pretty powerful because they are people just like you or me, who seem to be very passionate about what they are protesting. The readers of this report might get the impression that the students and administration who participated in blocking school entrances, etc… is just crazy people who need to calm down.

Jake Fitzpatrick wiki 3 [] This you tube video on the march 4th day of action protest at UC Davis focuses mostly on the march and the police involvement in the march. The video starts with a shot of a man offering the riot control officers a flower as a sign of peace followed by a girl getting beat and drug on the ground by the officers. Something I think that was left out was some one being very straightforward and saying this march of for the progress and improvement of higher education. It was very obvious that they were unified and all there for the same reasons but it wasn’t very well documented what those reasons were. The images used in this video were that of peace from the protestors and the constant threat of violence from the police officers. Examples of these images are when the man tried to offer the riot police flowers as a truce for a peaceful rest of the protest. On the other hand the ominous screen shots of 100 riot control officers in full gear blocking the progress of the march for higher education. Both of theses images were extremely well portrayed and powerful, the cameraperson did a good job of getting footage of the officers and the protestors at their best Some false impressions some people might from this video is that the protest was for some purpose other than to stop budget cuts and fee increases state with through out California. If you weren’t paying a whole lot of attention to the commentary and signs being carried you might think the protest was about the vandalism mentioned early in the peace or another issue only important to UC Davis not a statewide protest on budget cuts.

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This is a YouTube video that documents the March 4th Day of Action on the UCSD campus. It focuses on all of the students joining together to protest the cuts in higher education. They're arguing that the schoolboards are becoming more and more disconnected from the students. They also made a few demands from the people making the budget cuts: "Affordability and accessability for all students," getting education for free, the university becoming more accessable to the public, allowing college to feel more like a privilege. They focused on the necessity to put some pressure on the system to help the students in this difficult time. Also, the president of UCSD made a speech that made a scary point about this whole crisis. California used to have the best schools in the nation. Now they have the 47th best schools in the nation. How horrible is this? He says soon that California will be number 50 if these budget cuts continue. One thing that I got out of watching this video about the Day of Action is that students really care about their schools and their education. It's not something that is only affecting teachers and staff at schools. Students are definitely suffering and they care enough about it to try and fix things. The crisis in higher education isn't going to be fixed on its' own. I agree wtih the president of USCD. We definitely need to put pressue on the system to make things better for ourselves. Unfortunately, I doubt that we would ever get free education like the students in the rally were suggesting. However, I feel that the state should definitely be cutting other programs instead of the public schools so at least the students wouldn't have a ridiculously large tuition. All in all, this video really shows the necessity for change.

Crystal Hollinshead - Wiki Post 3 March 4, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/education/05protests.html

//California Students Protest Education Cuts//
The protest was not just for college students and faculty, but protest were also being held by the parents, at grade schools and high schools all across California on March 4, 2010. Most of the protests were peaceful, but some protests blocked an interstate in Oakland. One of the largest was held only an hour and a half away from Chico at the north step of the Capitol where more than 1,000 people protested in the "strike and day of action to defend public education". Students at UC Santa Cruz blocked the entrances and in L.A. at Westwood Charter elementary, parents and children handed out fliers. Governor Schwarzenegger said that the layoffs and reductions are terrible and they need a lot more money, but doesn't have a suggestion on where the money would come from. Democratic, Alberto Torrico, proposed a 12.5 percent tax on the state’s oil producers. One student from San Fransico State, Maura Geiszler said “We’ve had tons of protests here, and it doesn’t do much, all they’ve got to do is turn off the news.” Seeing pictures from some of the places where demostrations where held were inspiring and made me feel like a freerider and that I wish I could have been there to put forth my energy into my cause. I believe all the student, faculty and parents have hope that there will be a solution to this education crisis, but some look at reality and don't believe that the state will ever give into a solution like the one Mr. Torrico proposed.

Kyle Nelson http://labornotes.org/2010/03/march-4-day-of-action-california-beyond This article reports on the massive demonstrations around the united states that took place on March 4th National Day of Action. Starting at k - higher ed, teachers, students, and parents were walking out of class to protest the budget cuts towards education everywhere. Higher Education was the main advocates for the day, In San Fransisco there was close to 20,000 protesters. I found it amazing that since 2002 tuition has raised 132%. I didn't know the number has grown to be so high. With the upcoming $20 Billion deficit and word that 5200 more faculty and teachers are going to be laid off, everyone is trying to protest against, but on the other hand most people know that it is hard to fight something when there is no money. The UC President Yudof tried to band together with all the protesters on March 4 but not to many people were to excited aobut it. Most people know that it is the states fault but its the fact on what the adminstration chooses to spend the money one. Seeing different pictures on the different sites i was amazed on how many people attended te different events. I wish I could have madeit to the sacramento one, ot only would I would have been another face for the state to see but i would have been apart of history in the making.

Millions Protest Budget Cuts in California Andrew Davis

“The economic downturn has forced the government to make these budget cuts, as well as…” blah, blah, blah. About 50 seconds into this video, the reporter states this as if the economy was some sort of thug that put a gun to their heads and robbed them for all the funding to our Higher Education system, paid for with tax payer’s dollars. There is always a choice. This report mostly focused on the public disturbances caused by these protests from the bay to the border. He barely dabbled into the individual purpose for protest but rather gave a more general overview of what was happening. The reporter did not mention the approximate number of protestors, or even the wide range of protests at the various schools that care. University of California, Berkley was the primary school mentioned as well as the primary school filmed. This news report only showed quick glimpses of the groups, marches and picket signs. These images made me feel bad for not doing my part in this nation-wide protest. Seeing the vast amount of students, faculty and supporters all fight for education makes me proud to be an American. If someone other than me took the time to view this video, I think that they would get the impression that Education is something worth fighting for. They might just even be able to see that these budget cuts are actually depriving the nation of wide spread knowledge, just as it has done in the past. Beside the fact that the reporter is slightly mono tone, the visuals were very inspirational.

Rosa Scoma NBC 11o'clock news on T.V. March 4th

I happened to be watching T.V. at a friends house and right after the show ended, the 11 o'clock news came on. The first thing they start talking about was the huge protests going on through out California. It begins with showing students in Sacramento at the Capital's building. There was a huge turn out! It then shows the protests in Oakland and showed the police officers literally beating the shit out of students with butons. I really don't think that was necessary for the police to do. You can even see in the clip that most of the students are laying down on the ground not trying to fight back but the cops are still just beating them. Why do they not understand where the students are coming from? These students, parents and faculty are actually trying to make things happen and the police are just trying to fight it. It's like when you ask some one a question and they are expected to know the answer, but they just get all defensive and angry for you asking because they don't know the answer. I am sure some these police officer's have kids in school and should know what it is like for them to have to struggle. It was crazy to see how out of hand things have gotten. I guess something has to fall all the way down until it's able to get back up, and I think that is what is going to have to happen with higher education. It's going to have to take a big fall in order for people to see how it is affecting us all as a whole. The news even showed Davis too and how the police were beating the crowds too and even throwing pepper bombs into crowds. I would love to know why it was necessary for the police to take such actions.

Isaac Chavez Wiki Post 3 ====[] I found this video on March 5th, the day after the statewide day of action. The name of the video is March 4th Statewide Day of Action at UC Davis. Within this video there are many things going on that should not be. When we protest we should not be stopping other students going to school, even though we are not happy with the school system right now. I feel like the police also are in the wrong, they should have responded to the safety of the students differently. One part of this video the police are trying to block the students from going on the free way and the students are fighting them to push through. When the students are pushing a girl falls down and an officer is trying to take control of the situation but the girl grabs the night stick and the officer hits her head down. I find this situation uncalled for. Is this really what we as students have to do to get our voices heard about saying we don’t agree with the fee increases. It is mentioned in this video that many freshman students will not be going back to school because of the costs, which is at a thirty five percent fee increase so far. I really don’t understand why we are in war with our own country about education. Education is the tool that we need to improve our future and the country even tells us we are the future ,so then why can’t we the students just get a little more funding then the prisons get when they are the dead beats and we are the future of this country.==== WikiPost #3  []

 This article I found on the “march 4 day of action” basically defines why we will have this nationwide resistance. Without a doubt Higher education has changed dramatically and in an effort to save our system the chancellor and committee have used layoffs, fee hikes, cuts, and the re-segregation of public education as the only solutions to this big problematic umbrella. In addition to getting a glimpse of what is affecting education, the article calls forth all students, workers, teachers, parents, and their organizations and communities across the country to massively mobilize for a Strike and Day of Action in Defense of Public Education on March 4, 2010. What really caught my attention in this article was not the terminology it uses to get the attention of readers, but its method of targeting the politicians and administrator. It’s funny how they say there is no money for education and social services. In other words that “restructuring of higher education is inevitable and how they say that “there is no alternative” to the cuts. But certainly if there’s money for wars, bank bailouts, and prisons, why is there no money for public education? So this raises the question whether or not we are capable of being united and coming up with better alternatives? The article says we can beat back the cuts if we unite students, workers, and teachers across all sectors of public education, which in result the weight of students and workers will help shift the forces of budget cuts, furlough days, and teacher cuts proposed by the administrators. But I wonder if this will actually be effective and in result be a strong enough force to go against the current?  -Mario Chavarria Ayaka Miyaji---Wiki Post #3 [] This video is about the protest on the March 4th National Day of Action to Defend Education in Berkeley, California, and also a rally in San Francisco. The video focused on students’ activities. On March 4th, all of the classes got canceled and students walked out of class at UC Berkeley to protest against budget cuts, tuition increases and degradation of education. In the video, there were lots of students blocking the main entrance, and they were appealing to other students, teachers, and the public for spending cuts to school and universities. In San Francisco a large rally of SF State students was marching and protesting, as well. In that process, some students played a drum or bucket to get attention and make a big noise. They paraded with various types of posters and they were really a wealth of ideas. For example, one of the posters said that “budget cuts= death of public education,” with a drawing of a head of a skeleton wearing academic regalia. Additionally, the guy holding that poster had make-up painted on the same as the skeleton on the poster, and it gave me a strong impression. I also perceived a fear of losing the quality of higher education from that. For me, it was interesting to see how the protest went and what it was like. By only seeing this video, I thought that its protest was going very well. In my opinion, this video will encourage students to take an action. It seemed that the protest looked peaceful because there seemed not to be a riot at all, however, in the video it mentioned that there were reports of vandalism although it did not show any negative aspects of that. I felt it was kind of a one sided story from students’ point of view.

March 4th Day of Action

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0304/Day-of-action-highlights-education-woes

In the article, 'Day of action' highlights education woes, by Daniel B. Wood, the author focused his discussion on a critical analysis of not only the actual day of action but the logicality behind it as well. Wood described the demonstrators of the Day of Action briefly as “raising consciousness” and “pressuring cash-strapped states into thinking innovatingly about funding higher education.” Wood points out to the readers that although there were many protests, sit ins, and walkouts, the issue of fiscal availability ultimately overrides the power of protest. He quotes Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota of saying "The real problem is that the state is broke. No amount of protesting will change that.” I believe that it is very important to realize the core issue of the problem rather than attacking the problem itself, which is something that the majority of the protestors neglected to do. I enjoyed this article, but I feel that the author could have made a stronger argument for himself if he drew more from the actual day of action, rather than the events surrounding it. I also believe that if more individual accounts from the day of action were presented in the article, the reader could more accurately understand the severity of the issue. Overall I feel the author provided information to the reader in a logical way, and concluded the paper quite nicely with a statement alluding to the fact that we need an educational system for this century, not the last one. -Chris Rimmele

March 4 day of action [] This piece is on the March 4th day of action and the events that went on at San Francisco State University. Students, teachers and faculty teamed up to form massive lines of picketers and proceeded to march through the campus. The picketers were accompanied by gigantic puppets that sang danced and chanted phrases amongst the crowd. This was followed up with speeches from students while congas were played in the background to give a dramatic effect. The second part of the piece focused on a non-violent stance for all of the events that were happening. It was said by a SFSU faculty member that non-violence among the protests is most important because violent acts will remove the Constitutional right to protest. The images that were used to draw attention and support were the ethnic references to music and dance in the protests and also using names like Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez to represent a peaceful and non-violent approach. I believe the images of the famous people that have led peaceful and successful demonstrations hold a very powerful basis to be compared to the ones that we are trying to accomplish today with a bunch of average students and teachers from California Universities. When people recognize the usage of political beings such and these men, the publicity and awareness that is captured becomes tremendous. The true impressions that people will pick up right away with these pieces is that this is an awesome chance for the higher education system to get a chance to fight back and get the equal and right privileges they deserve. I don’t see and false impressions but people will definitely realize that this situation is no joke and that the full force population of California students and faculty are coming after them. -Scott Pense

Scott McCool March 7, 2010 Wiki 3 __[]__ While reading the information I had researched online, it began to state how everyone in California has been going through one of the worst economic crisis. Stating on how all student are suffering wether they are in college or elementary school. Also mentioning, how students are going into debt because of this financial crisis while the high unemployment causes many people to take upon the military in order to receive their future education. This report seemed to mainly focus on the issues causing much anger toward these budget cuts and what was expected out of March 4th. I believe that it was pretty brief and I’m quite sure there was more discussed about the issue. When reading, the images I pursued would be varieties of people going on and protesting for were there needs to be change. With many people having a passion for this to change and for their future to be nothing else but opportunity. They seemed to be stated in the passage as quite meaningful. When it all came out, I believe they could of been more powerful details of imagery to the point they were trying to get across. The impressions some readers may come across would be that it does state a solid issue and gets the point across of how much of a problem these budget cuts have been. At the same time, I believe when going over what is actually happening on March 4th. This could of been described more vividly, while having more details to support what exactly is going on. Overall, it stated the issue that has been going on how it has been effecting many and what is planned as of March 4th.

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 In the article "March 4 Day of Action Ripples Through California and Beyond" it talks about students protest for the right of education all throughout the state of California. In this article the students call for action against the crippling state budget cuts 17 billion in two years to the state’s education fund. In this protest the student’s major target is Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators as another 20 billion budget deficit approaches this year. Students from and throughout California are outrage even I am about this particular issue and to think about the years to come how tuition will effect as students. It’s disappointing to me that the government is letting the youth of the future suffer from the lack of action and to me if this continues on the government will soon fall apart because there isn’t anyone who’s educated enough to even run the government system. Also I’m shocked to know that not just students in college are being effect by budget cuts but also students of all ages are too not to mention non-students as well. In the YouTube video “March 4, 2010 at UIUC Rally to Defend Public Education” that I posted, students from UIUC rally to defend for public education, and during the protest I found a phrase on one of the posters that the students were carrying was quite interesting “They say cut back, we say fight back” I do believe that we as students should protest against budget cuts, without an education we will go nowhere in the future. In another article that I found was not quite what I expected in a protest for higher education, in fact in my person opinion think this is a bad way to protest for higher education. Students from Bay Area protests flooded streets and plazas, and temporarily shut down I 880 in Oakland. Later the law enforcements had to come in and that’s when things got ugly. In my opinion I think this is a bad image for students to achieve their goal for higher education.

Yee Yang  Wiki Post # 3  March 4th Day of Action to Defend Education: [] This is a Youtube video that documents the University Of California, San Diego protest in defense of public education on March 4th. It focuses on students and professors joining together to protest the cuts in higher education. These budget cuts led to furloughs, canceled classes, fee increases, and lay offs. This video also focused on the necessity to put some pressure on the system to help the students in this recession. After watching this video about the Day of Action I realized that its just not affecting teachers and staff teachers, its also affecting students. Students are definitely suffering and they care enough about it to try and fix things. Because the crisis in higher education isn't going to be fixed on its' own. Students really do care about their schools and their education. This document also showed footage of undergrads, grad students, faculty, lectures, and campus workers protesting. They paraded with various types of posters and speeches in which they were a wealth of ideas. The impressions that i think viewers would get from watching this Youtube video would be million of others are protesting for higher education because these the crisis is affecting them, and its never too late to do your part to also protest.

Kevin Stauffer [] In this video they start off by talking about why students and faculty are going to make their point on March 4th, due to increased fees, budget cuts, furloughs…… They talk about how students in CA have already started to take action. 20 students at CSU Fullerton occupied a building for some time and in Sacramento another five students were arrested protesting outside Jim Neilsons office. On the day of March 4th a UC Student Association President, Victor Sanchez, says they are there to “make a point to the state that, education is a right not a privilege and its time the students are heard.” This is a very good statement and I never really thought of it that way. After watching this video it made me wish that I had done my part and joined the others so that the students voices are heard and changes are made. The video goes on to talk about how this was nationally a day of protest in education and even people in South Africa took part and fought for free education. This video makes you realize that education is a problem all around the nation and not just in the US. Before I watched this video I just thought March 4th was a day for people in CA to fight for education. Obviously I was wrong. This was a day world wide for students to show that we want better education and it needs to change.