{"id":8997,"date":"2012-05-08T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2012-05-08T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T23:54:56","slug":"cal-state-students-begin-hunger-strike-to-protest-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/05\/cal-state-students-begin-hunger-strike-to-protest-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State students begin hunger strike to protest cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/06\/us\/california-state-students-plan-to-fast-in-protest-over-cuts.html\">At California State, Protesters Start a Fast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Angry about tuition increases and cuts in courses and enrollment, a dozen students at California State University have taken their protest beyond marches \u2014 their usual tactic \u2014 and declared a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the second day of the fast, supporters were preparing a kale, apple and celery juice concoction for the protesters at the Northridge campus. The students have pledged to forgo solid food for at least a week, perhaps longer if the administration does not move to meet some of their demands, which include a five-year moratorium on student fee increases and a rollback of executive salaries to 1999 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: At California State, Protesters Start a Fast Angry about tuition increases and cuts in courses and enrollment, a dozen students at California State University have taken their protest beyond marches \u2014 their usual tactic \u2014 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/05\/cal-state-students-begin-hunger-strike-to-protest-cuts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2266,2273],"tags":[3293,1288954,1288961],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protests","category-students","tag-cal-state-university","tag-protests","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8998,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}