Civil Disobedience

As I'm writing this a press conference is being held, whereby the Chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Nancy Cantor, is making public an agreement against the school's mascot Chief Illiniwek after 40+ protestors took over Swanlund Administration Building on campus yesterday. Among those was Zwichenzug, who gave lessons for the practical activist the day of the sit-in.

Spurred by the elimination of an April 15 board meeting that would have dealt with the addition of an anti-Chief resolution to the agenda, the protestors - including students, professors, alumni and Native Americans - successfully blocked the entrances to the administrative building at 7:30 in the morning yesterday. Afterwards the school locked the protestors in the building for safety reasons, Cantor meeting with protestors at about noon today.


Civil disobedience at its best

Statements from the press conference will be available at The Bellman when available.