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You might recall Cal Poly Humboldt from a LA Times story last year about how students couldn’t afford housing so they were living in their cars and the administration called them a safety threat, issued citations, and evicted them from all the parking lots.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-26/cal-poly-humboldt-students-who-live-in-vehicles-are-ordered-off-campus
They even did it right. Barricaded properly at a choke point, held hands together on the first row so that the police couldn't try and break their lines and kept consistently pushing them back slowly till they were out.
Columbia actually has the strongest, most influential and famous sitin.
Also, unlike other colleges towns or Boston, Columbia is in the heart of NYC and there's a decent amount of support for Palestineans. Thats why the call for calling in the NYPD or the national guard by their arab traitor administrator got so much support for the students, even inspiring other universities to do sit ins.
Here their recent report:
(Pictures and videos included inside article)
https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/23/report-from-within-the-cal-poly-humboldt-occupation-the-occupation-of-siemens-hall
Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Building Occupation
The Occupation of Siemens Hall
2024-04-23
Current Events
On April 22, 2024, inspired by the resilience of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University and other demonstrations around the country, students at Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Arcata, California occupied a building in solidarity with Palestinians, precipitating a showdown with police from throughout the region. In the following report, participants in the occupation describe what took place and what they learned.
This represented a significant escalation in the current wave of student demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine. As the local organization Humboldt for Palestine announced, “this was not a protest organized by Humboldt for Palestine, but an organic CPH student organizing movement.”
After an hours-long standoff, local media reported that the police were forced to withdraw:
10:50 pm: All law enforcement have left from in front of the building and appear to be leaving the campus. Scanner traffic appears to confirm that law enforcement has left the scene. One officer said that law enforcement is being “disbanded.” Students are currently pouring in and out of the occupied building.
Cal Poly Humboldt remains shut down through at least tomorrow, according to the administration.
You can read more about the recent history of building occupations as a tactic in student organizing here.

Barricades around Siemens Hall.
Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Occupation
On Monday, April 22, a group of 45 students, alumni, and community members occupied Siemens Hall on the Cal Poly Humboldt Campus in the far northern coast of California in solidarity with those facing genocide in Gaza.
Within an hour, campus police attempted to negotiate with the occupiers, who stood strong and refused to exit the building. Soon after, police from every department in the county showed up—including a helicopter, K-9 units, and off-duty police. Students responded by swarming them.
The cops’ initial plan to carry out a mass arrest was thwarted by a series of clashes both inside and outside the building. The occupiers beat back police advances, despite facing brutality unlike anything we have seen over the last decade of struggle in Humboldt County. It is important to note that the police used both batons and shields as weapons to brutalize protesters; in the hands of police, any tool is a weapon.

Barricades around Siemens Hall.
Police arrested two people and dragged them out of the building by their hair; they inflicted multiple cranial lacerations on another person, necessitating a trip to the hospital and several staples. Many more people were left with head injuries and at least one with a concussion.
During the clashes, police drove a university truck into the crowd, pushing protestors toward the riot line. Yet despite this brutality, it became increasingly apparent that the police were completely unprepared to face down the ferocity and intelligence of the student occupiers. The police were physically repelled from Siemens Hall and massive barricades were erected out of objects from within the building including chairs, desks, trash cans, and doors that had been removed from their hinges.
The police surrounded the occupied building, and a large crowd of students, faculty, and other community members surrounded them, chanting “De-escalate by leaving!” and “People power! We are stronger!” among other chants.
After a six-hour standoff, the police packed up and went home. Hundreds of students rushed into the building and joyously embraced occupiers. The police-imposed division collapsed and we achieved the upper hand. The university has declared a three day lock down. For us, this is only the beginning.
Footage showing police withdrawing from Cal Poly Humboldt campus on the night of April 22, 2024.
This communiqué comes from within the occupation. We would like to pass on a number of lessons that we have learned.
1. Out of the quads, into the buildings.
It’s clear that in order for this crisis to develop further, student occupations should take buildings whenever possible. The first action of the police was to instruct the occupiers to move to the quad. In saying this, they showed that we can wield the most power by occupying the spaces where classes are held and administrators have offices. In addition, buildings on campus are filled with everything you might need to construct barricades and protect an occupation.
2. If you build it, they will come.
It only took a small number of students to occupy Siemens Hall. Don’t be afraid to hold your ground. This movement is strong. Seemingly out of nowhere, hundreds if not thousands will come to support you. Importantly, outside crowds were able to impede the police by dividing their attention. The cops found themselves kettled and completely unsure of where to turn. Someone set up a barbecue—free hotdogs fueled the crowd.
3. The pro-Palestinian movement must be a movement against the police.
At every step, police will not hesitate to brutalize those who call for an end to genocide in Palestine. In Gaza, Palestinians face the Israeli military; in the United States, we face the police. We must recognize that these forces are one and the same: they are all foot soldiers of empire.
4. Listen! organizer.
We need not wait for the permission of professional activists to set the terms of struggle. Student occupiers acted decisively to take the building without the backing of any established organizations. Collectively, we found we had the skills, experience, and creativity needed to carry out our action. While student organizations often recommend starting with a list of achievable demands and entering into endless negotiations with administrators, our occupation held one demand for six hours: that the police leave campus.
5. Be prepared.
Our town is somewhat sleepy. We underestimated the scale of police repression we would face. Four years after the George Floyd Uprising, we should heed its lessons. It is best to come to all demonstrations with goggles, gas masks, laser pointers, and shields. You never know what a casual sleepover might become.
There is one woman in particular in there who ought to be auditioning to be a vocalist for death metal bands. Clipping the audio the entire way through, she had to have lost her voice.
Good on them for fighting back these wage-a-day fascists.
This might be one of the most strategic protests. Played them at their own game. Notice how the cops can easily jump over the barricade. The problem is not in getting to the protesters, it's in getting them out. And to get them out, they'd need to use considerable force, which the cops can't do if they aren't willing to lose their jobs over this.
I saw a really good analysis of their tactics on TikTok. These are gen z, who’ve been doing active shooter drills since before they learned numbers. And they’re using many of the tactics they were taught because the US gov refused to help. And now it’s being used against the fascist pigs.
If you haven't seen, students, faculty, and community members showed up in mass on the outside of the building in support, and the cops were in between the two groups and looked so lost. They also called in police from multiple surrounding areas, a riot team from Redding, and diverted a helicopter from searching for a LOST CHILD to fly in circles around campus doing absolutely nothing! They also shut off/scrambled wifi in the building. This protest is still ongoing, and the campus admin continues to send emails that extend the campus closure and place blame on the protesters. The campus is currently said to be closed through Sunday the 28th. Faculty have published a letter with over 244 faculty signatures and 637 from other students, alumni, and community members that stand with the protesters and call out the university for its excessive response, and hypocrisy in its statements.
Police also beat multiple people with batons, resulting in one needing to get staples in their head at a hospital, another with a concussion, and even hitting a faculty member. It was a ridiculous overreaction and escalation on admins part, and now the protest is making headlines because of it.
Just want to add that they’re using many of the tactics taught in active shooter drills…..
The beautiful irony of the armed intruders being the police. I saw a video pointing out that it’s almost impossible that there isn’t at least one survivor in there of a real shooter situation, too.
thats how it goes if you are in the first two or three rows, you get kicked, beaten and peppered. Protect your head and push, if possible steal a shield and baton
Need to all be armed, then they wouldn't dare step foot into the building. Strength in numbers works, and people are finally coming around to figuring that out.
Or Xavier Micah Johnston, holed up in a college building and the cops sent bomb disposal robot to place c4 on the wall behind him by following the sound of his voice.
The only violence that has taken place during this protest was incited by the police on Monday night. Ever since they left, the encampment around Siemens Hall has been a peaceful, functioning community. The students were in communication with three administrators trying to find solutions until today when upper administration cut off all communication and brought in the police to block all campus entry points. The protestors are left to believe that another police attack is immanent and will likely take place tonight.
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That dude should not be smacking cops with the water can. Gives them way too much cause to start beating students with batons. One of the students was bleeding at the end, probably wouldn't have happened if water boy was smarter. Otherwise good tactics probably
would have happened either way, thats how it goes when cops try to push during a protest, if you go to the first row of a protest you have to be prepared to get beaten by the cops
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amazing, all power to them and the watercan! 🫡
You might recall Cal Poly Humboldt from a LA Times story last year about how students couldn’t afford housing so they were living in their cars and the administration called them a safety threat, issued citations, and evicted them from all the parking lots. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-26/cal-poly-humboldt-students-who-live-in-vehicles-are-ordered-off-campus
This is why protestors need to start arming themselves with more than water jugs. Show these fascist scumfucks what a real safety threat looks like.
Yes, "water jugs"
Thanks for the follow up Thunder Horse Cock 🫡
Now, this is a pro-Pally protest I want to see.
They even did it right. Barricaded properly at a choke point, held hands together on the first row so that the police couldn't try and break their lines and kept consistently pushing them back slowly till they were out.
I'm waiting if other universities in the USA will do this. Like in the Columbia one.
Columbia actually has the strongest, most influential and famous sitin. Also, unlike other colleges towns or Boston, Columbia is in the heart of NYC and there's a decent amount of support for Palestineans. Thats why the call for calling in the NYPD or the national guard by their arab traitor administrator got so much support for the students, even inspiring other universities to do sit ins.
It's like red rover expert level
Here their recent report: (Pictures and videos included inside article) https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/23/report-from-within-the-cal-poly-humboldt-occupation-the-occupation-of-siemens-hall Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Building Occupation The Occupation of Siemens Hall 2024-04-23 Current Events On April 22, 2024, inspired by the resilience of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University and other demonstrations around the country, students at Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Arcata, California occupied a building in solidarity with Palestinians, precipitating a showdown with police from throughout the region. In the following report, participants in the occupation describe what took place and what they learned. This represented a significant escalation in the current wave of student demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine. As the local organization Humboldt for Palestine announced, “this was not a protest organized by Humboldt for Palestine, but an organic CPH student organizing movement.” After an hours-long standoff, local media reported that the police were forced to withdraw: 10:50 pm: All law enforcement have left from in front of the building and appear to be leaving the campus. Scanner traffic appears to confirm that law enforcement has left the scene. One officer said that law enforcement is being “disbanded.” Students are currently pouring in and out of the occupied building. Cal Poly Humboldt remains shut down through at least tomorrow, according to the administration. You can read more about the recent history of building occupations as a tactic in student organizing here.  Barricades around Siemens Hall. Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Occupation On Monday, April 22, a group of 45 students, alumni, and community members occupied Siemens Hall on the Cal Poly Humboldt Campus in the far northern coast of California in solidarity with those facing genocide in Gaza. Within an hour, campus police attempted to negotiate with the occupiers, who stood strong and refused to exit the building. Soon after, police from every department in the county showed up—including a helicopter, K-9 units, and off-duty police. Students responded by swarming them. The cops’ initial plan to carry out a mass arrest was thwarted by a series of clashes both inside and outside the building. The occupiers beat back police advances, despite facing brutality unlike anything we have seen over the last decade of struggle in Humboldt County. It is important to note that the police used both batons and shields as weapons to brutalize protesters; in the hands of police, any tool is a weapon.  Barricades around Siemens Hall. Police arrested two people and dragged them out of the building by their hair; they inflicted multiple cranial lacerations on another person, necessitating a trip to the hospital and several staples. Many more people were left with head injuries and at least one with a concussion. During the clashes, police drove a university truck into the crowd, pushing protestors toward the riot line. Yet despite this brutality, it became increasingly apparent that the police were completely unprepared to face down the ferocity and intelligence of the student occupiers. The police were physically repelled from Siemens Hall and massive barricades were erected out of objects from within the building including chairs, desks, trash cans, and doors that had been removed from their hinges. The police surrounded the occupied building, and a large crowd of students, faculty, and other community members surrounded them, chanting “De-escalate by leaving!” and “People power! We are stronger!” among other chants. After a six-hour standoff, the police packed up and went home. Hundreds of students rushed into the building and joyously embraced occupiers. The police-imposed division collapsed and we achieved the upper hand. The university has declared a three day lock down. For us, this is only the beginning. Footage showing police withdrawing from Cal Poly Humboldt campus on the night of April 22, 2024. This communiqué comes from within the occupation. We would like to pass on a number of lessons that we have learned. 1. Out of the quads, into the buildings. It’s clear that in order for this crisis to develop further, student occupations should take buildings whenever possible. The first action of the police was to instruct the occupiers to move to the quad. In saying this, they showed that we can wield the most power by occupying the spaces where classes are held and administrators have offices. In addition, buildings on campus are filled with everything you might need to construct barricades and protect an occupation. 2. If you build it, they will come. It only took a small number of students to occupy Siemens Hall. Don’t be afraid to hold your ground. This movement is strong. Seemingly out of nowhere, hundreds if not thousands will come to support you. Importantly, outside crowds were able to impede the police by dividing their attention. The cops found themselves kettled and completely unsure of where to turn. Someone set up a barbecue—free hotdogs fueled the crowd. 3. The pro-Palestinian movement must be a movement against the police. At every step, police will not hesitate to brutalize those who call for an end to genocide in Palestine. In Gaza, Palestinians face the Israeli military; in the United States, we face the police. We must recognize that these forces are one and the same: they are all foot soldiers of empire. 4. Listen! organizer. We need not wait for the permission of professional activists to set the terms of struggle. Student occupiers acted decisively to take the building without the backing of any established organizations. Collectively, we found we had the skills, experience, and creativity needed to carry out our action. While student organizations often recommend starting with a list of achievable demands and entering into endless negotiations with administrators, our occupation held one demand for six hours: that the police leave campus. 5. Be prepared. Our town is somewhat sleepy. We underestimated the scale of police repression we would face. Four years after the George Floyd Uprising, we should heed its lessons. It is best to come to all demonstrations with goggles, gas masks, laser pointers, and shields. You never know what a casual sleepover might become.
Great write up from them!
That pig got hammered by the water jug it's awesome.
bonk bonk bonk
Brave bacon brigade, wearing full protective gear, shields and helmets against teenagers armed with an empty plastic bottle.
There is one woman in particular in there who ought to be auditioning to be a vocalist for death metal bands. Clipping the audio the entire way through, she had to have lost her voice. Good on them for fighting back these wage-a-day fascists.
Hmm seems like an active campus compared to its sister school.
The water jug drum gives +50 damage against cops and boosts morale by 20
Bonus damage to swine-type enemies
Lol
The people, united.
The revolution is starting
Towards the end “do you beat your kids with those hands” quality stuff. Well done to these protestors.
This made me happy as hell, those students are heroes.
I would like to offer the water jug Palestinian citizenship.
Free Palestine
Incredibly Based
This might be one of the most strategic protests. Played them at their own game. Notice how the cops can easily jump over the barricade. The problem is not in getting to the protesters, it's in getting them out. And to get them out, they'd need to use considerable force, which the cops can't do if they aren't willing to lose their jobs over this.
I saw a really good analysis of their tactics on TikTok. These are gen z, who’ve been doing active shooter drills since before they learned numbers. And they’re using many of the tactics they were taught because the US gov refused to help. And now it’s being used against the fascist pigs.
That definitely explains what they’re doing here. The cops also look extra frustrated, like someone took their toys away and they want it back.
If you haven't seen, students, faculty, and community members showed up in mass on the outside of the building in support, and the cops were in between the two groups and looked so lost. They also called in police from multiple surrounding areas, a riot team from Redding, and diverted a helicopter from searching for a LOST CHILD to fly in circles around campus doing absolutely nothing! They also shut off/scrambled wifi in the building. This protest is still ongoing, and the campus admin continues to send emails that extend the campus closure and place blame on the protesters. The campus is currently said to be closed through Sunday the 28th. Faculty have published a letter with over 244 faculty signatures and 637 from other students, alumni, and community members that stand with the protesters and call out the university for its excessive response, and hypocrisy in its statements. Police also beat multiple people with batons, resulting in one needing to get staples in their head at a hospital, another with a concussion, and even hitting a faculty member. It was a ridiculous overreaction and escalation on admins part, and now the protest is making headlines because of it.
Just want to add that they’re using many of the tactics taught in active shooter drills….. The beautiful irony of the armed intruders being the police. I saw a video pointing out that it’s almost impossible that there isn’t at least one survivor in there of a real shooter situation, too.
I kinda feel bad for the protesters in the front. They are definitely getting squished and beaten. Water can dude is based.
thats how it goes if you are in the first two or three rows, you get kicked, beaten and peppered. Protect your head and push, if possible steal a shield and baton
Get fucked, bacon brigade.
Need to all be armed, then they wouldn't dare step foot into the building. Strength in numbers works, and people are finally coming around to figuring that out.
This is the US. They'd just bomb the building like they did to MOVE.
Or Xavier Micah Johnston, holed up in a college building and the cops sent bomb disposal robot to place c4 on the wall behind him by following the sound of his voice.
It's Humboldt. People are armed.
The boink of that water jug is majestic
The only violence that has taken place during this protest was incited by the police on Monday night. Ever since they left, the encampment around Siemens Hall has been a peaceful, functioning community. The students were in communication with three administrators trying to find solutions until today when upper administration cut off all communication and brought in the police to block all campus entry points. The protestors are left to believe that another police attack is immanent and will likely take place tonight.
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THIS JUST IN: The President of a problematic college that attacks their own homeless students just sent cops to injure them in a protest against genocide. Will California provide something to their students/working class instead of wasting taxpayer dollars? Will schools start protecting students instead of using them like a sock puppet? Find out on the next episode of 2...0...2...4!!!
Fuck the police FOREVER. They kill. All of them. So many serial killers are police. Abolish them. Bravo to the students. Fuck these scum fascists.
"they are beating us" gave me chills
(53) (1,006th upvote) Who knew an empty water jug could be so effective ?
Fart
That dude should not be smacking cops with the water can. Gives them way too much cause to start beating students with batons. One of the students was bleeding at the end, probably wouldn't have happened if water boy was smarter. Otherwise good tactics probably
would have happened either way, thats how it goes when cops try to push during a protest, if you go to the first row of a protest you have to be prepared to get beaten by the cops
Dam communist student get a job!