1/ UC Santa Cruz released a Revised Draft EIR on its controversial #StudentHousingWest project proposing 2,712 upper-div undergrad beds, 220 grad beds + 140 family student hsg beds. This thread is on @UCSC's controversial push to develop the iconic #EastMeadow for those 140 beds
@mandapxnda SMH. Homeless pushed out of visibility. Virtue of People’s Park is its location. I’m reminded of artist Krzysztof Wodiczko’s lesson with his homeless vehicle project: where ppl learn to see marginalized and homeless folks as shared democratic citizens, co-owners of public space.
100% student loan debt cancellation. 100% free public college. 100% support for cost of living raises to grad + undergrad students + support staff for public universities. Cancel federal austerity. Fiat currency must deliver aid for public purposes and not private outsourcing.
@RebeccaforWA It’s upsetting and important to witness, how some folks, whom as elected reps with so much power to shape the collective public good, become, as individuals in those roles, so powerless in the face of certain lobbying special interests and of the influence of money.