Reply #2: OccupyUC's General Assembly proposal for the encampment.

[Luminous Animal]

In part...

"We, the UC Berkeley General Assembly, hereby establish an encampment on the UC Berkeley
campus. We establish our encampment in order to reverse the privatization of and cuts to all
levels of education, and to help the university become what it always should have been: open .
and free to all.

We disagree with the idea that this university and this land are the property of the UC Regents,
the vast majority of whom hail from the top 1% of wealU1 holders. We recognize that the
privatization of University of Califomia system has not happened in isolation, but is part of a
broader process by which wealth becomes increasingly concentrated and the vast majority of
population, especially the poor, working dass, people of color, indigenous, queer, and other
marginalized people, are excluded from political, economic, intellectual and cultural life."