This is just a short diary to note that as of publishing time, almost 99,000 people have signed the petition calling for UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign in light of the pepper-spraying insanity that she was responsible for that took place on the UC Davis campus ten days ago.
Scott Wooledge, aka clarknt67, started the petition; it went viral last week then cooled off over the Thanksgiving lull. It will be fitting for it to reach the symbolic 100,000 mark as students return from holiday, the UC Regents meet, and UC Davis finds itself in the midst of a strike called for by the #Occupy UC Davis General Assembly for Monday.
Student protesters with the Occupy movement will converge on four UC campuses Monday morning to vent their fury at a meeting of the regents, with demonstrators in Davis attempting a campuswide shutdown.
The meeting, rescheduled after cancellation earlier this month because of threats of violence and vandalism, now includes a one-hour slot for student voices and other public comment, increased from the usual 20 minutes. The regents will be spread out in four locations -- San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles and Merced -- and conduct the meeting by teleconference...
The Occupy UC Davis protesters will try to shut down the campus through a general strike, during which they vow to stop people from going to classes and jobs.
In case you've been in a cave in Irkutsk playing Risk the last couple of weeks, here's the video sprayed-round-the-world:
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Make sure you, and your friends, and any Facebook or Twitter pals you have in Yakutsk, sign the petition. And then take down the proper bottle of pepper spray from your wall and toast the Chancellor.
10:24 AM PT: Who knew?
The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic... is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world at 3,103,200 sq. km