They asked me, what injustices I have seen- if any. I laughed.

I have seen many injustices in and outside of the UCB community. Nowadays, 

the injustices UC Berkeley staff, students, and workers face have become so 

immense that it is important that we draw it to our attention: maybe the system 

wide UC student and faculty walkout on September 24 will do the trick. 

From the ever-growing dramatic increase in student fees- to the discontinuation 

of cal grants, to furloughs and layoffs, to the fewer resources provided for 

students and the even fewer opportunities provided for UC staff members, to the 

ever-strained UC workers that must tackle more tasks outside of their respective 

job descriptions, to the ICE (Immigrations Customs Enforcement) raids pulled out 

against our UC workers- it seems as though all we see and experience is bureaucratic

 encroachment. All we are experiencing is the privatization and hypocrisy of the 

institution. We are becoming subject to the neglect, the abuse, and the injustice

 of all things Regent, President, and Chancellor-related. We are becoming minions

 in this "divide-and-conquer" plan laid out by those stringing us by a thread from

 above. Top-down, self-interested economic trends have strained our pockets and our

 civil liberties. I have seen injustice in the educational and labor sector.  I 

have seen injustice and dogmatism in the very academic institution that ironically

 seeks to diversify and liberate our minds, so that we are ready and prepared to

 fight the very battles we are facing against the very hand that does not seek to

 feed, but rather poison us.  I have seen many injustices in and outside of the

 UCB community. Some, much less anticipated than others.  ~Romina K.