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bjbjLULU P%T] JEFFREY BROWN: Next, an update on the Occupy movement, as it faces pushback
around the country. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from California on
the shifting strategies of protesters and students. SPENCER MICHELS: There was no word
today on what the University of California would do about tents erected last night in
front of Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus. Student demonstrators pitched them, despite
police warnings to leave the area. The new occupation followed a massive evening rally
in the plaza that organizers said attracted 10,000 people, about double what the police
estimated. Former Labor Secretary and U.C. economics professor Robert Reich delivered
the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, honoring a leader of the 1960s free speech movement.
ROBERT REICH, former U.S. labor secretary: Over the last three decades, this economy
has doubled in size, but most Americans have not seen much gain. If you adjust for inflation,
what you see is the median wage has barely risen. Where did all the money and resources
go? SPENCER MICHELS: The gathering marked a melding of student protests with the Occupy
Wall Street movement. In Oakland yesterday, the plaza in front of city hall was all but
deserted, after police rousted demonstrators on Monday and tried to clean up the area.
On Tuesday, a contingent of about 500 marched from Oakland toward the Berkeley campus to
join forces and causes. The march was peaceful, and police, criticized by some for earlier
actions against the protesters, kept the street traffic-free. Although the students at Berkeley
were originally demonstrating over tuition increases and cuts to the university system,
the demonstration evolved into something much broader. It was hard to tell the difference
between the campus concerns and the Occupy Wall Street movement. The rally was called
a general strike by organizers. One of the leaders was Yvette Felarca, who had been injured
in a battle with police earlier in the week which was posted on YouTube. She is a teacher
in the Berkeley schools and a member of BAMN, By Any Means Necessary. She says the two movements
are essentially one. YVETTE FELARCA, By Any Means Necessary: They were never separate.
They were always part of the same struggle. I mean, to me, the movement we're seeing across
the country is a movement against the privatization that is happening and the impact of -- and
the really sick and deforming impact that this -- that the capitalist system has created
for the entire nation and the world. SPENCER MICHELS: But for the campus and the protesters,
the issue now is what happens next: Will the demonstrations continue, and will they remain
peaceful? YVETTE FELARCA: We have got to win by building a new civil rights movement that
is prepared to fight by any means necessary in order to take a stand for democracy, for
integration, against racism, and for the right to things like public education and public
services. SPENCER MICHELS: The same questions about the fate of the Berkeley protests also
loomed in other cities. In Seattle last night, a similar march turned briefly chaotic as
police used pepper spray on the crowd. And, in New York, a few demonstrators returned
to Zuccotti Park without tents, after police shut down the encampment early yesterday.
Protesters said they plan a rally tomorrow to disrupt the financial district. hBA3 hBA3
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