Students Show Support for Occupy Cal Movement From Abroad

Student-body leaders at more than a dozen colleges across the country announced their support of free assembly and expression in a YouTube video uploaded on Saturday, in response to police officers’ use of force against demonstrators on the University of California at Berkeley’s campus this month. The students in the video are on a trip together in Russia and said they wanted to show solidarity with the Occupy Cal protesters, who are part of a national Occupy Colleges movement.

The students also voiced support for a solidarity march that took place before a Stanford vs. California football game on Saturday night. The video does not mention an incident on the university’s Davis campus last Friday in which peaceful student protesters were pepper-sprayed by a police officer, probably because the video was recorded before that incident.