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Radical student protesters bust windows, issue manifesto
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by Federsavage | January 10, 2008 at 02:51 pm
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Radical student protesters bust windows, issue manifestoRichard Warnica , Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008
A team of self-styled "warriors" has declared "war" on the University of B.C., smashing windows and painting walls in protest over on-campus development.
The group, whose name is an allusion to a radical Vietnam war era protest movement, has even issued a manifesto.
"We, the warriors of the Wreath Underground, claim responsibility for the recent acts of targeted vandalism," reads the declaration e-mailed in December to the university's student paper, the Ubyssey. "To avoid UBC security deeming these actions random violence, we will declare ourselves here, our ethos and our aims."
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at 16:07 on January 10th, 2008
Thanks for this post. UBC is my alma mater, so I viewed this with interest. It's a funny thing, because on the one hand I applaud the radical move, but on the other hand I know that in a huge institution like UBC the effect may not be as effective as desired. Most likely its greatest effect will be more work for maintenance workers, which is unfair. We'll have to wait and see...