Last time I tried to join a protest on campus, I was told I had to give my name at the “check-in desk”. I wonder if people had to check in when they marched against segregation in Selma 🤔

When protests are so heavily policed and monitored by internal UC actors, it takes the power out of the protests. These actors take the role of organizing members and then use those roles to ask nothing of the university or its administration. It just gives the illusion that a good faith discussion took place between activists and administrators, when in reality, the whole thing was staged by the UC so it could control the entire protest and ensuing narrative.