Holy shit, watch what's happening at Berkeley right now.

[greyl]

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

Kind of looks like the crowd is herding the cops off of the steps. Loud crowd, "Whose steps? Our steps!"

Prior to herding:





After the herding:



edit to add the "after" screencap

[RainDog]

1. yep n/t

[greyl]

3. The cops should just bump on down the road if they won't join the crowd. ;) nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yup,

this is kind of interesting,

[greyl]

5. Heheh, understatement indeed. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Love the chant: "You're Sexy, You're Cute, Take off Your Riot Suit!"

:rofl:

[RainDog]

8. LOL.

the whole world is watching...

[aletier_v]

17. The Passive Aggressive Approach

We love you, join us, we are your friends!

Oh, and btw, we outnumber you by 100-to-1 and we're really pissed off the situation.

What an amazing thing to see.

[eShirl]

19. "passive agressive" means something else entirely

[AntiFascist]

6. K&R!

and unreccing certain other threads about certain other protests. You want to protest the media, protest the fact that they're covering bullshit.

[fishwax]

7. k/r

:kick:

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Occupy Oakland might be sending help

now that this would be interesting...

[greyl]

11. ...and if Oak gets raided, Berkeley will send help there.

Looks like both camps are ready to respond to the cops' actions at a moments notice.

[AsahinaKimi]

10. Wooooooooot!

Go Golden Bears!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Oh cool they are mic checking the police warning

[greyl]

13. Most protestors are now seated. A bit quieter, mic checks & relaying # to call if arrested. nt

[Electric Monk]

14. The chancellor took our tents, but look, we took the plaza.

No re-segregation of higher education.

[greyl]

15. Now proposing University-wide student strike. nt

[Duer 157099]

16. hehe Too Big To Jail

(i'm probably late to the party but that was funny)

[greyl]

18. Yep, protestors there are peaceful, cops see they're in no position to start arresting,

and "are at ease. Some are interacting with the protestors," according to tweet on livestream.

[Scuba]

20. Why all the cops? Why do the pols feel that a big crowd of protesters ...

... indicates a lot of cops are needed?


I don't see that many cops (in riot gear, no less) at football games or concerts.


If there are no laws being broken, why all the cops???

[Duppers]

21. Wow!

On edit: What a contrast to what the idiots at Penn are doing!

[Odin2005]

22. K&R!

[TBF]

23. Love it! K&R nt

[Starry Messenger]

24. k&r