Comments on: Chancellor Birgeneau must be held accountable for violence against students http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/ i am not qualified to say this Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:31:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Police brutality & hypocrisy are not acceptable. « hardboiled http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-24880 Police brutality & hypocrisy are not acceptable. « hardboiled Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:31:15 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-24880 [...] and hear about my peers being brutalized by the policemen you sent to diffuse the Friday protest. I urge you to critically assess how sending armed riot police to monitor unarmed students played a r... I am greatly disturbed when I see the gaping disparity between what you called a “peaceful end” [...] [...] and hear about my peers being brutalized by the policemen you sent to diffuse the Friday protest. I urge you to critically assess how sending armed riot police to monitor unarmed students played a r… I am greatly disturbed when I see the gaping disparity between what you called a “peaceful end” [...]

]]> By: Solidarity with all arrested! « The New School Reoccupied http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22765 Solidarity with all arrested! « The New School Reoccupied Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:05:24 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22765 [...] Yaman Salahi’s letter to UC Faculty following the November Wheeler occupation: What started as aggressive and unjustified provocation [...] [...] Yaman Salahi’s letter to UC Faculty following the November Wheeler occupation: What started as aggressive and unjustified provocation [...]

]]> By: Behind the Privatization of the UC, a Riot Squad of Police « Kritische Studenten Utrecht | 2009 http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22527 Behind the Privatization of the UC, a Riot Squad of Police « Kritische Studenten Utrecht | 2009 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:35:07 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22527 [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letter to the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...] [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letter to the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...]

]]> By: Occupy Everything! | Amauta http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22518 Occupy Everything! | Amauta Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:01:48 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22518 [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letter to the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...] [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letter to the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...]

]]> By: Behind the Privatization of the UC, a Riot Squad of Police « The New School Reoccupied http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22500 Behind the Privatization of the UC, a Riot Squad of Police « The New School Reoccupied Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:40:28 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22500 [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letter to the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...] [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letter to the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...]

]]> By: Milan Moravec http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22451 Milan Moravec Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:44:51 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22451 Reckless Spending of $3,000.000 @ UCB: University of California President Yudof Approves $3,000,000 to Outsource UCB Chancellor’s The UC President has a UCB Chancellor that should do the high paid job he is paid for instead of hiring an East Coast consulting firm to fulfill his responsibilities. ‘World class’ smart executives like Chancellor Birgeneau need to do the analysis, hard work and make the difficult decisions of their executive job! Where do consulting firms like Bain ($3,000,000 consultants) get their recommendations? From interviewing the senior management that hired them and will be approving their monthly consultant fees and expense reports. Remember the nationally known auditing firm who said the right things and submitted recommendations that senior management wanted to hear and fooled government oversight agencies and the public? Mr. Birgeneau's executive officer performance management responsibilities include "inspiring innovation and leading change." This involves "defining outcomes, energizing others at all levels and ensuring continuing commitment." Instead of demonstrating his capacity to fulfill his executive accountabilities, Mr. Birgeneau outsourced them. Doesn't he engage University of California and University of California Berkeley (UCB) people at all levels to help examine the budget and recommend the necessary trims? Hasn't he talked to Cornell and the University of North Carolina - which also hired Bain -- about best practices and recommendations that might apply to UCB cuts? No wonder the faculty and staff are angry and suspicious. Three million dollars is a high price for Californians to pay when a knowledgeable ‘world-class’ Chancellor is not doing his job. Please help save $3,000,000 for teaching our students and request that the UC President require the UCB Chancellor to fulfill his executive job accountabilities! Reckless Spending of $3,000.000 @ UCB: University of California President Yudof Approves $3,000,000 to Outsource UCB Chancellor’s
The UC President has a UCB Chancellor that should do the high paid job he is paid for instead of hiring an East Coast consulting firm to fulfill his responsibilities. ‘World class’ smart executives like Chancellor Birgeneau need to do the analysis, hard work and make the difficult decisions of their executive job!
Where do consulting firms like Bain ($3,000,000 consultants) get their recommendations?
From interviewing the senior management that hired them and will be approving their monthly consultant fees and expense reports. Remember the nationally known auditing firm who said the right things and submitted recommendations that senior management wanted to hear and fooled government oversight agencies and the public?
Mr. Birgeneau’s executive officer performance management responsibilities include “inspiring innovation and leading change.” This involves “defining outcomes, energizing others at all levels and ensuring continuing commitment.” Instead of demonstrating his capacity to fulfill his executive accountabilities, Mr. Birgeneau outsourced them. Doesn’t he engage University of California and University of California Berkeley (UCB) people at all levels to help examine the budget and recommend the necessary trims? Hasn’t he talked to Cornell and the University of North Carolina – which also hired Bain — about best practices and recommendations that might apply to UCB cuts?
No wonder the faculty and staff are angry and suspicious. Three million dollars is a high price for Californians to pay when a knowledgeable ‘world-class’ Chancellor is not doing his job.
Please help save $3,000,000 for teaching our students and request that the UC President require the UCB Chancellor to fulfill his executive job accountabilities!

]]> By: Occupy Everything! | El Kilombo Intergaláctico http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22449 Occupy Everything! | El Kilombo Intergaláctico Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:23:05 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22449 [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letterto the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...] [...] undergraduate Yaman Salahi was present to witness the police violence, and immediately penned a thoughtful and necessary letterto the UC Berkeley community in which he heaps responsibility, quite rightly, onto the shoulders of [...]

]]> By: Tom V. http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22434 Tom V. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:11:53 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22434 http://www.youtube.com/user/TomVeeTV More videos still to come including more police violence. http://www.youtube.com/user/TomVeeTV

More videos still to come including more police violence.

]]> By: Ann Kerber http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22428 Ann Kerber Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:04:25 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22428 I was shocked and appalled when I saw the Berkeley Police turn vicious. They were clubbing students (both women and men) who screamed in pain while involved in a totally PEACEFUL PROTEST. This is no way to run one of the world's premier universities, and the students deserved to be heard, and to be treated with SOME RESPECT!!! There was absolutely no reason, absolutely no excuse for allowing this peaceful protest to become a scene of violent confrontation against peaceful protesters by Berkeley Police!! I was proud of the students, and I was proud of the University, until the campus administrators allowed this uncalled-for-brutality, ending in screams of pain on the part of innocent students (with valid concerns, I might add, and you most certainly must know) to occur!!! I would like to emphasize that one of my own great-great-great grandfathers from England WAS AN ORIGINAL SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!! This took an enormous amount of personal courage and a great deal or risk on the part of all signers, because the King could have destroyed them, their families, their land ... everything they held dear, and yet they took that courageous step in part so that freedom might exist in this new land. Check it out ... his name is Josiah Bartlett, from New Hampshire, and his name is at the very TOP OF THE THIRD ROW, DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT OF THE SIGNATURE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON! At that time, my proud ancestor courageously risked his life and the life of his family, their income and their land, in order to make this country free. So when I see this kind of reprehensible brutality, it shocks me! My family has been in this country since 1607, and I would expect that by now, students who are rightfully concerned about education for themselves and others, AND WHO STAGE A PEACEFUL PROTEST, should be treated with MUCH MORE RESPECT, AND MUCH, MUCH LESS VIOLENCE!!! THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY NO VIOLENCE AGAINST THESE YOUNG STUDENTS, SO IDEALISTIC AND SO PROUDLY INVOLVED IN THEIR WORLD. WAS IT YOUR OFFICE WHICH GAVE THEM PERMISSION TO USE SUCH FORCE? IF SO, RETHINK YOUR POSITION ON THIS, BECAUSE THE STUDENTS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION, AND THE SCREAMS OF PAIN I HEARD THIS MORNING ON THE NEWS WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING! THIS WAS REPREHENSIBLE BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF BOTH BERKELEY POLICE AND THE UC BERKELY CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION!!! I was shocked and appalled when I saw the Berkeley Police turn vicious. They were clubbing students (both women and men) who screamed in pain while involved in a totally PEACEFUL PROTEST. This is no way to run one of the world’s premier universities, and the students deserved to be heard, and to be treated with SOME RESPECT!!! There was absolutely no reason, absolutely no excuse for allowing this peaceful protest to become a scene of violent confrontation against peaceful protesters by Berkeley Police!! I was proud of the students, and I was proud of the University, until the campus administrators allowed this uncalled-for-brutality, ending in screams of pain on the part of innocent students (with valid concerns, I might add, and you most certainly must know) to occur!!! I would like to emphasize that one of my own great-great-great grandfathers from England WAS AN ORIGINAL SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!! This took an enormous amount of personal courage and a great deal or risk on the part of all signers, because the King could have destroyed them, their families, their land … everything they held dear, and yet they took that courageous step in part so that freedom might exist in this new land. Check it out … his name is Josiah Bartlett, from New Hampshire, and his name is at the very TOP OF THE THIRD ROW, DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT OF THE SIGNATURE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON! At that time, my proud ancestor courageously risked his life and the life of his family, their income and their land, in order to make this country free. So when I see this kind of reprehensible brutality, it shocks me! My family has been in this country since 1607, and I would expect that by now, students who are rightfully concerned about education for themselves and others, AND WHO STAGE A PEACEFUL PROTEST, should be treated with MUCH MORE RESPECT, AND MUCH, MUCH LESS VIOLENCE!!! THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY NO VIOLENCE AGAINST THESE YOUNG STUDENTS, SO IDEALISTIC AND SO PROUDLY INVOLVED IN THEIR WORLD. WAS IT YOUR OFFICE WHICH GAVE THEM PERMISSION TO USE SUCH FORCE? IF SO, RETHINK YOUR POSITION ON THIS, BECAUSE THE STUDENTS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION, AND THE SCREAMS OF PAIN I HEARD THIS MORNING ON THE NEWS WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING! THIS WAS REPREHENSIBLE BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF BOTH BERKELEY POLICE AND THE UC BERKELY CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION!!!

]]> By: Sean Kerr http://www.yamansalahi.com/2009/11/21/current-events/chancellor-birgeneau-must-be-held-accountable-for-violence-against-students/comment-page-1/#comment-22419 Sean Kerr Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:09:34 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=1827#comment-22419 Would someone please compile some of these video clips of police brutality together with the Chancellor's emails updates about how well the police were working to keep the peace? Would someone please compile some of these video clips of police brutality together with the Chancellor’s emails updates about how well the police were working to keep the peace?

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