| August 16, 2010 UC Berkeley Boalt Law School Protest First Day of Classes Press Conference and Procession Berkeley, CA World Can't Wait and other groups protest against Torture Professor John Yoo at UC Berkeley Law on first day of class, Fall 2010. Press conference speakers: Stephanie Tang (World Can't Wait); Cindy Sheehan (Peace of the Action); Ann Fagan Ginger (Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute); Sharon Adams (National Lawyers Guild); Yanin, law student from Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture; Medea Benjamin (Code Pink); Cynthia Papermaster (Nat'l Accountability Action Network). Michael Moore Posts Oakland Tribune Story (following) www.michaelmoore.com August 17th, 2010 1:45 PM Protest draws dozens at UC Berkeley for John Yoo's first day of classes By Sean Maher / Oakland Tribune BERKELEY -- Protesters gathered at the opening of classes Monday to protest the school's continued employment of John Yoo, a UC Berkeley professor who gave legal sanction to the Bush administration's views on torture. Between 70 and 80 people gathered near the Boalt Hall School of Law around noon and, after a series of speakers discussed torture from a number of perspectives, dipped their hands in red paint and marched into a classroom where they believed Yoo to be teaching this semester, organizer Linda Jacobs said. Yoo was not in the classroom, so the group continued on to the dean's office and demanded to speak with him, Jacobs said. Police at the scene declared the group an unlawful ... |
