Student Protests in Puerto Rico

Student protests are occurring world wide in response to fresh financial burdens imposed on them by universities hit by economic difficulties.  Protests at the University of California, at Berkeley and elsewhere, have brought in other complaints, e.g. alleged mistreatment of staff and ongoing commitment to the development of nuclear weapons.  And these protests of late have not remained nonviolent.  Students at the University of Puerto Rico, in the meantime, are sticking to the financial issue and continuing to ‘strike’ nonviolently (at least, that is, without overt violence), to negotiate in good faith with President de la Torre (though he and other administrators have not always been completely transparent with the students) and done creative actions like their own graduation exercise.  Because a federal judge has declared an actual strike illegal, citing the fact that students are not employees, and even though he pointed out that what the students were doing was more a protest than a strike, the administration has ordered police to occupy the campus.  The situation remains tense, and Metta people may want to follow it as things develop, e.g. on Twitter.   It may be of interest that some friends are working on finding a publisher for SEARCH FOR A NONVIOLENT FUTURE on that island.