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More than two dozen African-American students, many from UC Berkeley, tried to disrupt “business as usual” on Saturday by staging a protest in Berkeley’s upscale Fourth Street shopping district. The students, as well as some community activists, started walking through various shops and restaurants around 11 a.m. chanting, “Which side are you on, my people? Which side are you on? We are on the freedom side.” Some carried signs that read: “Sorry 4 the inconvenience, We wanna change the world,” and “RIP” showing a drawing of a young man wearing a hoodie. According to the protesters, the protest was staged in restaurants in order to link the demonstrations to those launched in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement when people of color sat down at lunch counters in the South that were reserved for white customers. “The strategy of Black Brunch is simple: to stop business as usual in mostly white upscale neighborhoods by going into restaurants and stores and reading the names of Black people who have been killed by police or vigilantes,” read a statement issued by the organizing group, which included black students from Cal and community activists. “The small inconvenience felt while we disrupted businesses pales in comparison […]
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More than two dozen African-American students, many from UC Berkeley, tried to disrupt “business as usual” on Saturday by staging a protest in Berkeley’s upscale Fourth Street shopping district. The students, as well as some community activists, started walking through various shops and restaurants around 11 a.m. chanting, “Which side are you on, my people? Which side are you on? We are on the freedom side.” Some carried signs that read: “Sorry 4 the inconvenience, We wanna change the world,” and “RIP” showing a drawing of a young man wearing a hoodie. According to the protesters, the protest was staged in restaurants in order to link the demonstrations to those launched in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement when people of color sat down at lunch counters in the South that were reserved for white customers. “The strategy of Black Brunch is simple: to stop business as usual in mostly white upscale neighborhoods by going into restaurants and stores and reading the names of Black people who have been killed by police or vigilantes,” read a statement issued by the organizing group, which included black students from Cal and community activists. “The small inconvenience felt while we disrupted businesses pales in comparison […]
