UCLA students and faculty participated in the UC-wide “Day of Action” protest rallies to voice their frustration with education budget cuts and a 32% fee hike for undergraduate students on March 4th, 2010.
The protest rally began at 11:30 in Bruin Plaza, where crowds gathered to display home-made signs voicing their discontent. At noon, presentations began that highlighted the opinions of many campus groups, faculty and lecturers on the fee hikes and recent incidents of racism in the University of California system.
After the presentations were completed, the protesters marched through campus while using megaphones to ask onlookers to join their cause – some classes even emptied as students joined the “walk out”.
The rally’s final destination was the office of the chancellor – police blockaded the entrance, and so the protesters filled up the hallways and refused to move.
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