'Occupy' protests on way to California campuses next week
The wave of anger at banks that has swept the country with the recent “Occupy” movement is coming to California college campuses next week. A union-backed group calling itself “Refund California” is organizing protests on Wednesday at more than a dozen college campuses, including Sacramento State and the University of California, Davis… The group sent letters Friday to University of California regents and trustees of the California State University, asking them to sign a pledge to support five items: Increasing income taxes on California’s wealthiest; changing Proposition 13 so that corporate property taxes could rise; implementing a federal sales tax on large-scale financial transactions; reducing underwater mortgage debt; reversing tuition increases, layoffs, and cuts to public education and essential services. University support for those demands is unlikely.
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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.