Special note: This article was produced in a joint effort between CCSF’s “The Guardsman” and SFSU’s “Xpress” newspaper. The two college news outlets are merging coverage for the “March in March” protests, March 1 in San Francisco and March 5 in Sacramento.
Over 300 protesters assembled in front of San Francisco’s City Hall and the California State Building on March 1 to protest cuts to higher education, and many will continue marching 99 miles to Sacramento for a larger protest on Monday.
The assembly known as March in March kicked off at 3 p.m. at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue then proceeded to Civic Center. The event was organized by groups such as Occupy CCSF, Associated Students of City College, the Northern California Occupy Education Coalition and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 2121.
“We want the wealthiest of California to stand up and pay higher taxes to help the ninety-nine percent,“ said Alisa Messer, president of the AFT at City College.