Comments on: Class Put on Pause

By: Isabel

Isabel — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:04:00 +0000

Who better to explain what happened then the students who have been directly affected. There is no need to insult the work of the students who have worked hard to write this article.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:33:00 +0000

Typical diatribe from idiots who try to belittle those they
don’t agree with: “support this, do that, don’t argue” In other words, “shut
up because I don’t agree with you.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Ah, yes, silly me. I’d forgotten that City on a Hill Press subscribed to the Fox News style of journalism, as opposed to real journalism. Then again, they’re students. What more can be expected?

By: Teko2012

Teko2012 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:13:00 +0000

Dear Concerned,
We are not sorry for interrupting your class for the 10 minutes. For us this is much much more than an assembly bill, it is about people’s lives, the separation of families, people being unjustly incarcerated, children losing their parents, people dying, right now!! One of the protestors in the room that day had tragically lost her brother due to this policy of Secure Communities. So yes it was about publicity, to bring attention to a critical issue and to hold certain people accountable for failing to uphold the values that they have publicly preached about and have been awarded for. Now if we had prevented you from attending school, or would have eliminated your education, I would have understood your frustration, but I assume you still took your final, went home and went on with your life as usual. We fight for justice where it is needed, not where you prescribe, thank you.

P.s. If the shoe fits…

By: Gregory Ronquillo

Gregory Ronquillo — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:26:00 +0000

The photos were taken by Sal Ingram, who is part of the City on a Hill Press photo staff and attending this event as a journalist. The article features quotes from both the opposition and protesters and includes the facts behind the protests and AB 1081. It’s also written in the ‘objective journalist’ voice instead of the looser ‘editorial voice’.

By: Concerned

Concerned — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:53:00 +0000

Dear ‘more concerned / No S-Comm’

In response to your first point, the protestors ethnicity had nothing to do with my point about them being (or not being) students. Please re-read your post and consider how you are promoting racism with your blanket assumption. The non-students I was referencing (for the record) were, to quote the article, the “Brown Beret members [who] were joined by sympathetic UCSC students.” From the wording of this sentence in the article, this lead me to believe that there were people who were not students participating in this protest. Furthermore, it did not seem that most of these protestors were students of this class, hence my comment on “these non-students (and students not enrolled in the class).”

In response to the rest of your comments:
I agree with you that fighting for what you believe in is an important and valid exercise. I have no qualms with people expressing their opinions, interests, or problems with the government. The main problem I had with this ‘protest’ was that people were disrupting a class when there are significantly better forums. To me, this seemed like nothing more than a publicity stunt at the cost of the education of the students in the class, which (from reading the article) appears that the majority of the students enrolled in the lecture were not participating in the protest. All-in-all, I thought it was ironic that someone was holding up a sign about education (see the picture) while disrupting a class over an assembly bill which A. has nothing to do with education and B. the major doesn’t vote on.

Please fight for further justice in the community, just make sure that you aren’t causing other injustices in the process.

-Concerned

P.S. Calling people names is impolite.

By: Sam Rosen

Sam Rosen — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:00:00 +0000

Probably because only a handful of the protesters admitted to being students?

By: Sam Rosen

Sam Rosen — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:59:00 +0000

Shouldn’t this be in the Opinion and Editorial section, since there’s almost no actual reporting going on in the article, and the pictures were clearly taken by the protesters?

By: No S-Comm

No S-Comm — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:51:00 +0000

Dear concerned,

First of all why do you think that all individuals that took part in this action were not students, can it be that the majority of them are Latino therefore not good qualified to be students? For your information most of the people that took part in this action were students including members from various UCSC organization such as Students Informing Now (SIN) ans MEChA.

In addition, some of the participant have been involved in direct meetings with several assembly members including Bill Monning who actually became a co-sponsor of the bill (AB1081). Moreover, activist across the nation of been involved directly in their communities getting local resolutions passed denouncing Secure Communities and supporting bills, such as AB1081, in order to send a solidified message to governors and to the president.

What was not stated in this article was that similar resolutions were passed by the Watsonville City Council and the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors. According to some organization who worked on the resolutions, several attempts were made to meet with Ryan Coonerty but he failed to give the matter any importance. Coonerty was targeted because he directly led the efforts at the Santa Cruz City Council to defeat the resolution supporting AB1081.

One of the many justifications used by him was that if Tony Madrigal, the only Latino on the City Council, would not have introduced the resolution he might have supported it. This shows that he put his personal agenda over the lives of dozens of families being separated over an unjust policy, therefore we stand by our actions against Coonerty. And for your information, we have jobs and fighting for justice in our community is the best thing we can do with our lives thank you jerk!

-more concerned