Follow the Berkeley standoff via microblog. Best updates on California occupations here; best strike and breaking media from UPTE; and all other UC news at Newfield et al’s place here. Update 5pm PST: Berkeley police turned off the campus wireless and sent in the SWAT team: the last transmission was the microblogger recording SWAT smashing the hinges off the doors. Image of the cops bursting in can be found here.
Latest: reports of 40 UC-B students arrested, 1 seriously injured. Update 530 pm: it appears that UC Davis is reoccupied, with as many as 100 students occupying Dutton Hall. No blog source yet, but follow this DailyKos diary and this microblog aggregation.
For those keeping journalistic score: the NY Times, LA Times and CNN utterly whupped the trade press on covering the occupations. Best image, LA Times. Second best image: SFChronicle.
To the disobedient ones: thank you.
If you missed it — you gotta read this beautiful account of the occupation of (Clark) Kerr Hall, the UCSC administration building, Reflections on an Arrow in Flight.
