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Friday, January 29, 2016

VIDEO: Warning, Multiple F Bombs, University of California, UCSB, Students Chant 'F' Your Borders, To Border Patrol Police At Campus Job Fair

From the Tax Funded Ca. State University System that put the 'Illuminati' in charge of its UCSF Psychiatry Dept. 

Ask yourself, How many of these parasites are going to go on to employment on your dime as social workers, psychologists, and other members of the Thought, Mood, and Behavioral Gestapo.


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AUSTIN YACK - UC SANTA BARBARA 


‘This is a very triggering event for people,’ says one UCSB protestor 
SANTA BARBARA – A cadre of University of California-Santa Barbara students took to the quad Thursday to protest the participation of U.S. Customs and Border Protection recruiters at a campus job fair, loudly chanting “f*ck your borders, f*ck your walls” among other slogans.
The 50 or so student protestors who lined the outside of the campus building hosting the career fair held aloft a large banner stating “Undocumented Unafraid,” and also chanted “Hey hey, ho ho – CBP has got to go.”
“We do have undocumented students here on campus who are at potential risk,” said UCSB graduate student Idalia Robles in an interview with The College Fix. “This is a very triggering event for people in those circumstances. There is no space on this campus for an organization that continues to threaten the safety of students.”
A video taken by a College Fix reporter shows students continuing to chant similar slogans – sometimes in English and other times in Spanish – as the demonstration continued into the afternoon.
Several students declined to be interviewed by The College Fix, but the group appeared to include a mix of members from several student organizations on campus. Robles said demonstrators had mostly converged to show solidarity with undocumented students.
“This event is a university endorsed event, right? And there is the presence of Customs and Border Patrol. We are in a Hispanic serving institution. One of the concerns that are very present in the Chicano-Latino-Mexicana community is that of immigration and the abuse of power at the hands of immigration officers,” she said. “[A]s someone committed to social justice, I know that this is something crucial.”
Students at the public university were notified Monday via email about career fair participants, along with a statement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The CBP statement read:
“Uniformed CBP staff will be on site with the sole purpose of providing students with information about a broad range of career opportunities. The CBP personnel will be attending in a recruitment capacity.”
“CBP recently launched a national recruiting strategy to aggressively recruit women, minorities, veterans, and college students.”
“Current openings entail not only frontline law-enforcement positions, but also a variety of administrative, professional, and technical functions.”
The protest had begun inside the career fair, but The College Fix was informed by observers that the crowd had been moved outside. Once outside, the protest continued.
“CBP detains people without adequate legal aid in horrible conditions where prisoners are often abused and violated. Is that what you want as your employer?” shouted one protestor into a megaphone.
“Shame!” the crowd replied.
The statement issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicates its officials may have expected the uproar. Last fall, after students complained about the planned presence of border patrol agents at a similar job fair at UC Irvine, the agency backed out of participating in that event.
The protest at UC Santa Barbara occurred on the same day that UC President Janet Napolitano announced more than 3,000 undocumented undergraduate students would now have access to a system-wide student loan program funded by taxpayers.
“By reducing barriers and expanding access to higher education for undocumented students, the University of California is investing not only in the future of these students, but also in the future of our state and nation,” Napolitano stated in a news releasing announcing the California DREAM Loan Program.
The initial $5 million for the program is equally funded by the University of California and state general funds appropriated to UC, the statement added.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

University of California Santa Barbara To Hold Forum On Safe Spaces For Fat Gay Men

Every snowflake deserves to be at the head of their own line, where the space is like safe from any like, negative vibes, dood.
weaselzippers
Welcome to academia in the year 2016.
The University of California, Santa Barbara will host a book discussion next week to discuss “the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture,” specifically for “fat, gay men.”
The event, a discussion of the book “Fat, Gay Men: Mirth, Girth, and the Politics of Stigma” with author Dr. Jason Whitesel of Pace University, is being hosted by the UCSB Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. According to the event page on Facebook, 34 of the 199 students invited have indicated that they will attend.
“To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult,” the Resource Center’s description of the event begins. “Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men—chubs, bears, cubs—the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay communities.”
To help students learn more about the issue, Whitesel “delves into the world of Girth & Mirth, a nationally known social club dedicated to big gay men,” which the description later states “has long been a refuge and ‘safe space’ for such men.”
Thank You Campus Reform and Zip. 

Monday, June 1, 2015

University of California at Santa Barbara Professors: ISIS Isn't That Bad, We Just Need To "Contextualize" Them . . .

weaselzippers;
Two University of California-Santa Barbara history professors, Sherene Seikaly and Adam Sabra, held a discussion titled “ISIS: A Historical Perspective” back on May 20.
Assistant Professor Sherene Seikaly’s portion of the talk “focused on the formation of ISIS as influenced by a combination of Arab authoritarianism and United States intervention.”
However, the former’s allotment basically was composed of pointing out that Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Regarding the latter … well, that appears to have taken up the bulk of the chat.
Seikaly began her portion of the talk by pointing to the U.S. use of depleted uranium in the battle of Fallujah, which she noted caused high [sic] rates of cancers, like leukemia, and birth defects than were found in a post-nuclear Nagasaki.
“Fallujah was effectively emptied of its population and destroyed,” said Sabra, also noting that the U.S. began recruiting many Sunnis successfully during their occupation of the city.
Seikaly also noted the high rates of mass incarceration, torture, and long-term detention of Iraqis by U.S. forces. Those that would become leaders of ISIS and similar groups, Seikaly stated, were able to build alliances in these prisons.
“This group [ISIS] does not emerge out of a sudden Islamic tendency for beheading,” Seikaly said, before elaborating on the role of authoritarian regimes in the region. Seikaly noted a deep kind of sectarianism in the region—some of which was organic, some of which was incited by the U.S. as well as Iranian and Saudi Arabian governments. “These different interests benefit from a lack of unity,” she said, pointing to the ways in which tensions between Sunni and Shiite groups have been aggravated.
“Sectarianism didn’t just happen,” said Sabra. “People didn’t automatically go for a gun and start shooting people of a different ethnicity or religion.”
Seikaly gave a brief overview of the 1991 war in Iraq, a US reaction to invasion of Kuwait by the regime of Saddam Hussein. After the war, the US imposed heavy sanctions on Iraq.
“The outcome of this war was devastating on the Iraqi people,” said Seikaly. “They were subject to one of the harshest sanction regimes in recent history. Those who paid the price for these sanctions weren’t those in the regime, but the people of Iraq.
And who is the President of UC?

Why, it's none other than the former Democrat head of the Federal Dept. of Homeland Security.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Napolitano

The same prosperous looking little party apparatchik who signed off on your being breast and genital groped at airports by the TSA.

You remember the TSA, don't you? Homeland, Security, and all that related bullshit?

Undercover Agents Snuck Fake Explosives, Weapons Past TSA 96% of The Time.

Janet, your legacy remains.

Nice to know you're now riding herd on ISIS "Contextualizers". 

Same UC System in SF with their ghost Psych Gulags.

Thank You College Fix and Zip.