UC Davis Chancellor Katehi’s past: police repression in Greece, FBI spying in the US

[MattSh]

The pepper spraying of peaceful student protesters at the University of California, Davis has become a focal point for national outrage over the police repression of demonstrations against social inequality.

The police action was ordered by UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who was acting on behalf of the UC Regents and the Democratic Party-controlled political establishment in California, which is determined to enforce a new round of drastic tuition increases on students. Katehi has spent the past week and a half defending herself against demands for her resignation, while making half-hearted attempts to distance herself from the police violence.

However, Katehi’s claims of innocence in the matter are belied by her past. She has played a major role in developing repressive measures against students protesting austerity measures and is a prime example of the growing nexus between corporate CEOs, academic administrators and the police-intelligence apparatus.

Katehi’s has been involved with police crackdowns in her home country of Greece, is one of 20 administrators involved in a national FBI network aimed at monitoring “anti-U.S.” activities on college campuses, and has overseen an administration-run campus infiltration program.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/kate-n28.shtml

[emcguffie]

1. I just can't wrap my mind around "Democratic Party-controlled political establishment--

-- in California, which is determined to enforce a new round of drastic tuition increases on students."

Why are so many Dems behaving as Republicans? What am I missing?

[femrap]

2. I guess you're missing

the 'friendly-fascist democrats' part of the equation.

Hope she loses her current job...I can't believe students have to pay for their own oppression.

[n2doc]

3. They all serve the same master

The 1% who fund their political campaigns, hire them and their relatives, and ruthlessly punish any who might be a threat to their power.

This is part of a campaign to privatize the Universities. Not in the usual sense of selling them off, but by taking all public funding away so that the university system functions in the same way as a private university like Stanford.

Tuition and fees used to account for a tiny percentage of revenue for a University like UC Davis. Now they are the dominant sources.

[emcguffie]

6. Sorry I missed this.

My daughter is a high school senior. The only thing good about being so poor right now is it should help her through college.

But why are they doing this? I mean, they don't stand to gain financially from privatizing universities as they do from privatizing other things, like armies and prisons, do they?

I can see them maybe wanting to deprive more people of higher education. But not class war, oh no!

[woo me with science]

7. Well said. nt

[qb]

4. FBI network aimed at monitoring “anti-U.S.” activities? They've exhumed McCarthy.

:puke:

[midnight]

5. Facinating.... Our Board of Regents was having UWM student's

policed big time too... Students were being tased and those protesting the Chancellors pay raise were arrested.... The Chancellor was discovered to be turning the public university into a private university... He has been replaced...