BERKELEY--  About 60 students and supporters at UC Berkeley have locked themselves inside Wheelar Hall to protest the recent tuition increase. According to campus police a group of students entered the building around 6 a.m. Three students were arrested immediately for burglary. According to one student who spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle, the protesters “had enough food and water to last four days.”

Youth Radio has been following tweets from @ucbprotest—one of the protesters inside Wheeler Hall. Check out some of tweets below.

@ucbprotest "Professor ananya Roy is in negotiations with the admin. to meet occupiers demands"

@ucbprotest “Police moving onto the west side of wheeler. Students sitting down, won't move.”

@ucbprotest “The four demands for us to end this particular occupation are, as already stated:
1) To repeal the 32% fee increase
2) for transparancy of the UC Budget to all
3) Allow undocumented laborers and students free access to Berkeley campus
4) Democratize the Regents and fire our disgraceful "leaders" including Yudof.

@ucbprotest “cops claiming to be on the phone with us, not true!!!!”

@ucbprotest Occupiers not arrested. They are doing fine in wheeler. Police are threatening but the situation has not changed.

@ucbprotest “people are not handcuffed inside, the barricade remains intact.”
 

A number of UC campuses decided to go on a three day strike on Wednesday to stand up against raising undergraduate tuition by 32 percent. Despite the walkouts the University of California Board of Regents decided on increasing tuition 32% by next fall.

On the first day of the protest, 14 protesters were arrested at UCLA. On Thursday--the second day of protest, 50 protesters were arrested at UC Davis campus—this is after the decision of increasing tuition was announced.

“…An estimated 52 men and women had been arrested. The majority were housed in a paddy wagon, which the protester occupants rocked each time more arrests were made. The rest were placed in the back of patrol cars. “ via Mercury News