Ruben Garcia, 20, participated in last semester’s “Where’s the Funding?” (WTF?) rally because he, like many of the attendees, found the “importance of [fighting for one’s] future.”
Three months later, the sociology major is a member of the main student organization responsible for the recent “Education is Dead” rally held Wednesday afternoon.
Resisting Against Gutting Education (R.A.G.E.), an informal campus club comprised of students with stories similar to that of Garcia’s, with the support of official campus clubs, planned and organized the rally.
“We have to do something,” said Garcia.
There is already an Associated Students Organization-sponsored club with similar principles to those of R.A.G.E.’s in place named Students Organizing for Success.
R.A.G.E. was created following the WTF? rally, when some of its participants wanted to meet up on a regular basis to discuss thoughts of, and solutions to, the budget crisis affecting California community colleges.
Because it isn’t an ASO-sponsored organization, it does not receive the same benefits given to official campus clubs, like a room for regular meetings, publicity, and monetary assistance.
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