Save Mes Aynak (LA protest)

Wisdom Quarterly; Nazaneen Habib, Brent E. Huffman (Facebook 411408222299991)

As a classical civilizations major at UC Irvine and filmmaker, we are helping organize a protest intended to save Buddhist archeological remains.
 
They are located in an ancient city-size monastic complex about to be destroyed in Afghanistan by China this month. 

 

This peaceful demonstration is scheduled for Saturday, June 15, 2013 from 12:00-4:00 pm in front of the Westwood Federal Building. 

It would be great to have groups of individuals meet up and organize to attend together.

Let us know your thoughts! It would be great to have the support of the local Buddhist community in this. See our Facebook event page.

UCLA: Protesting UC Regents' Meeting

Text: LAweekly.com; Wisdom Quarterly

UCLA students protest fee hikes in front of Royce Hall and blocking street (minamipictures.com)

As expected, UCLA students and other protesters will be out in force at the Westwood campus today as some of the UC Regents hold a meeting that could ultimately decide the fate of another tuition hike [for California students].

Some demonstrators are unhappy with the Regents' decision not only to postpone their last meeting out of fear of radical protests, but to then hold today's make-up meeting at four different locations (UC San Francisco-Mission Bay, UCLA, UC Davis, and UC Merced) and vote via phone.

UCLA's short lived Take Back UCLA (Occupy) tents were resurrected today (Daily Bruin).

Demonstrators told us it was a clear attempt to diffuse the Occupy related anger over the tripling of student costs in the last 10 years. The group ReFund California has helped to organize the protests and has attempted to connect the unhappiness with hikes to the anti-bank, anti-Wall Street movement. More

• PHOTOS: UCLA students block Westwood Blvd.
  

Pro-Test versus Protesters (UCLA)

A rally was held today to protest the mistreatment and vivisection (experimenting on live subjects) at UCLA. A counter-protest (by an animal-cruelty in the name of science ad hoc organization) to fight anti-vivisection "extremism" targeted students.

A group calling itself "Pro-Test" (advocating animal testing even if it tortures animals or even if it produces results that can not be extrapolated to humans) went to the corner of Westwood Blvd. and Le Conte Ave. A rally in support of animals was taking place. Pro-Test was there to antagonize activists, perhaps even stir up enough emotion to give police a pretext to shut down all protesting.

On the one hand, Pro-Test wants to affirm the role of biomedical research on animals. Anti-vivisectionists, on the other hand, argue the bad science done in the name of corporate profits, to justify more poisonous treatments (rather than cures) serves neither the animals nor the humans it's done in the name of. The slanted school paper (Daily Bruin) covered the event.

• Pro-Test attracts crowds (Daily Bruin)
• UCLA scientists seek to [torture animals] in peace
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