Activists March Across Campus to Protest War
Demonstration Leads to Two Arrests; Marchers Stop Traffic on Highway 217
By Benjamin Gottlieb / Reporter
Published Friday, February 16, 2007
Protesting the war in Iraq, between 700 and 1,000 UCSB students, faculty, staff and community members marched through campus and onto Highway 217 yesterday, ending their demonstration by demanding the release of fellow activists from jail.
Demonstrators – who were urged by organizers to boycott the university by skipping class and work – gathered at Pardall Tunnel at 1 p.m. and blocked bicycle traffic while playing music, chanting and listening to anti-war speakers. The assembly then marched through campus as far as Highway 217, where they blocked traffic into and out of campus for an hour and a half.
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