From a source inside Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley:

“There’s an open occupation going on at the UC Berkeley campus right now in Wheeler Hall. We have been here since early Monday and have completely reclaimed the space. This is part of the struggle for Free Education. Boots Riley from the Coup is performing Friday at 9pm! More acts will play.”

The Wheeler Hall occupiers’ website/blog:
http://liveweek.net/

News account in the New York Times on the situ at San Francisco State University where 26 people were arrested this morning:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/education/11arrest.html

Keep an eye on:
http://reoccupied.wordpress.com/

From the Berkeley Daily Planet:

“UC Protesters Return to Wheeler Hall”
By Raymond Barglow

Having barricaded themselves in Wheeler Hall on Nov. 20, on the last day of a three-day strike, UC Berkeley students who oppose cuts to public education in California returned to Wheeler Monday night, Dec. 7.

But this time they said that they were appropriating the space for educational purposes rather than “occupying” it. The avowed intention of the protesters this week is to show that the university should rightfully be governed and run by those whom it directly affects: the students who learn in it, the faculty who teach in it, and the staff who provide services and maintenance.

This campus community has “shown the world that we can shut this university down,” the protest announcement says. “Now, we show that we can run our public university the way it should be—by the public.” The current aim is to transform Wheeler Hall into a “24-hour open university” during a week on campus that has traditionally been called “dead week”—a time at the end of the school term when students prepare to take their final examinations and hand in their term papers.

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