How was March 4th?

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Our video captures the party/rally in the rotunda where I think we reached and appealed to more students than before with this new indoor/festival tactic. More students got involved. Our video doesn't capture the march that went across town to FIT. It was beautiful, the sun was setting as we crossed the major avenues with our signs.



We were in the middle of the march. When we got to the hearing at FIT we found ourselves stopped by a barricade that separated us from the front of the March. We couldn't hear the speeches, we were cut off so cars could go down 29th Street and the rally could be suppressed or made to look smaller. We begged the police to let us over. The concept of hopping over the gate was in the air but the police could arrest us. A woman encouraged us to go back and go around to the rally but after we started doing that the police gave up and opened the side gates. Still, when it was dark, they refused to let us into FIT to fight for the student metro cards and cuts to transit. We cheered, "Let Us In!" We found ourselves blocked again, this time trapped in front of FIT behind the barricade. We pushed the gate and the police pushed back. We pushed back and forth until finally, again, they let us out but as far as I know there was no ability for the crowd to get into FIT. There was mostly confusion at that point.

On Wednesday there will be a post March 4th general activism meeting in the Hoffman Lounge. All activist groups on campus are invited to discuss what we all are doing these next 2.5 months and how perhaps, we could support each other, or at least not compete with each other.