#FixSC Tent City Recap
A week-long action that included listening circles with politicans, teach-ins, workshops and a worship service to address issues at USC has culiminated in a tent-city occupation in the heart of the scandal-ridden campus. The #FixSC Tent City sprouted outside the univeristy’s busiest entrance during the start of the Festival of Books and participants spent six nights sleeping there to bring attention to a myriad of issues at the university. A coalition of USC grad students, faculty, staff, community leaders, clergy members, tenant groups and labor leaders took the fight inside the school’s gates after administrators failed to meet a 48-hour deadline for a meeting. Leaders are calling on USC officials to truly start putting students and their community first by paying livable wages, addressing sexual assualt and harrassment on campus, mitigating displacement caused by its expansion and more. Campus police issued a dispersment order but students like Shany Ebadi say they’re only more emboldened to continue the fight. “We’re still a movement and they cannot divide us,” she said.
The week is over but our movement is not. We will be back.
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