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Dozens Arrested in California and New York Capitol Protests « Student Activism

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Dozens Arrested in California and New York Capitol Protests

Running around today, but wanted to at least quickly follow up on the student protests in Sacramento and Albany yesterday.

The New York Times has a good overview of the Albany action. Excerpt:

About 300 students, most of them from public universities in New York, rattled the Capitol on Monday with an outburst of loud protests, in the gallery of the Senate Chamber and outside the governor’s office.

The students, part of a statewide coalition of campus organizations called New York Students Rising, were objecting to the tuition hikes that were approved last year under a measure that permits public univer