goedwingo:

“Tell me what democracy looks like, this is what democracy looks like!” shouted Kathryn Lybarger, an organizer for the workers union, as students threw used paper cups, apple cores and banana peels at the front door. “What does a regents’ meeting look like? This is what a regent’s meeting looks like!” 

“We will bring your job back,” Lybarger assured Houam Ounniyom, a laid-off custodian. (Berkeley Daily Planet)

We will get your job back… so you can clean up this mess we just made!

Now according to the students, they checked with Union Leaders before they dumped trash outside of the hall.  The Union Leaders were cool with it because they would get paid overtime to do it.

I’m really glad that they did get permission, and I really hope other students pay attention to this fact if they decide to strike.  What if these students decide to dump trash without checking with Union Leaders?  What if Union Leaders were opposed to this?  How would the several custodians left feel knowing they had to clean up this massive heap of garbage students made because some of them got caught up in the adrenaline of striking?

So to my fellow Bears that are striking, please remember to strike smartly.  Make sure that you organize yourselves properly and do not get caught up in the moment and cause damage or even worse, harm to others.  You don’t want to do anything that is destructive to the cause you fight for.  Just remember to the words of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi:

“Keep it peaceful, y’all.”