They met in San Francisco State’s Malcolm X Plaza — just outside the Cesar Chavez student center — and marched their way around campus to the administration building, protesting prospective tuition increases as they went. About 100 supporters showed up to encourage the hunger strikers.
A quartet of students at taxpayer-funded San Francisco State University who call themselves the “Third World Liberation Front 2016” have gone on a hunger strike this week until. They have vowed not to eat until administrators provide the school’s College of Ethnic Studies with $8 million in funding.
The four students — Hassani Bell, Julia Retzlaff, Sachiel Rosen and Ahkeel Mestayer — began their hunger strike on Monday, reports The San Francisco Examiner.
They met in San Francisco State’s Malcolm X Plaza — just outside the Cesar Chavez student center — and marched their way around campus to the administration building, protesting prospective tuition increases as they went. About 100 supporters showed up to encourage the hunger strikers.
Once at the administration building, the four students demanded that SFSU president Leslie Wong bankroll the College of Studies with a cool $8 million so it can “not only sustain itself but thrive.”
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