October 8, 2005 Metro strike day 12: Protesters descend on Sentinel
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By GENEVIEVE BOOKWALTER SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
SANTACRUZ — Hundreds of students, bus drivers and protesters descended upon the Santa Cruz Sentinel building Friday evening, beating windows, chanting and claiming biased coverage. http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/10/santa-cruz-sentinel-metro-strike-day.html
On the other hand:
October 7, 2005 Metro strike: UCSC group urges drivers to get back to work By SHANNA McCORD Sentinel staff writer
<...> A group of 10 UCSC College Republicans and Students for Sustainable Labor gathered to show their frustration with the bus strike, holding neon-colored posterboards with slogans such as "No buses, no peace," "Workers of the world work," "UTU is exploiting the community for greed" and "$60k a year, where do I apply?"
Rally organizers said more students would have shown up to oppose the strike, but getting downtown from UCSC was too time-consuming and difficult because of the traffic jam on campus caused by the lack of bus service, said Chandra Sharma of the College Republicans. <...> http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/10/santa-cruz-california-transit-strike.html
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