[http://ucrebelradio.com/2011/03/30/big-regent-is-watching-you/]
Along with the recent discovery of an administrative infiltration of activists’ circles at UC Davis and surveillance at UC Berkeley (read here and here), it has just come to our attention that the administrative violence is rampant and quite widespread.
Information suggesting that UCIPD has been working with the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center, a local Joint Terrorism Task Force affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI’s National Security Network, to monitor student protests and student activists has just become available after John Bruning, a local activist on the UC Irvine campus, retrieved the information requested as per a public records request made earlier in January. He comments, “I don’t know what the relationship is, other than that a member of OCIAC, also a Detective with the Huntington Beach PD SWAT Team, forwarded a YouTube video of the protest I was arrested at in November 2009 to Sgt. Arnold with my name in the subject line.” Due to “public safety exceptions”, 24 pages of the report were redacted.
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Because, as UC Davis professor Joshua Clover writes in an op-ed in UC Davis’ California Aggie [http://theaggie.org/article/2011/03/29/guest-opinion-private-eyes-real-surveillance-false-denials-from-administration],[begin excerpt]
Over the last year, the UC Davis administration has pursued an extensive program to place staffers in and around student-worker protest. They have done so not, as you might expect, to join in the struggle against indecent cuts and backdoor privatization, but to deliver surveillance on participants.
[end excerpt]
And, because this problem as it is being discovered is endemic to the overall institution, we
recommend that all activists who have participated in previous actions throughout the UC in the past three years make public records requests from their institutions. The Big Regent is watching you!
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