Coburn Palmer, James Hermon
Victory Blvd. will be closed between Mason and Winnetka Monday, March 14 due to student protests against education cuts.
Daniel Axelrod, ASO president, has secured a permit to enable students to march down Victory Blvd. in the hope of gaining media attention.
Axelrod campaigned on campus today to inform students about Monday’s march titled “Enough is enough”.
There will be a sit-in at 10:30 a.m. around the Brahama Bull statue, in front of the business center.
At 11 a.m. the march will begin down Brahama Drive towards Winnetka and will proceed to Victory Blvd. before returning to campus.
“We’re encouraging people to walk out,” Axelrod said.
At 4:30 p.m. there will be a debate between professor McKeever and professor Brown about education, followed by a eulogy for the death of education and a candlelight vigil.
“Every single year we do these write-in campaigns but we don’t know if they read them,” Axelrod said.
The protest down Victory Blvd. will echo the “march in March” that will take place in Sacramento on Monday.
The march in Sacramento will protest fee hikes and Axelord’s demonstration is protesting the cuts in the education budget.
There will also be people registering students to vote on Monday. Axelrod hopes that students will be inspired by their peers protesting and will want to get involved.
“They’ll never start listening to us until we start voting,” he said.