UCSD Students Protest Eviction of Campus Che Guevara Cafe for Failing to Pay Rent
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, except at UCSD apparently.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn reports for Campus Reform:
Che Guevara cafe protests eviction after failing to pay rent
In the guerrilla spirit of the venue’s namesake, University of California at San Diego (UCSD) students protested the school’s eviction of the Che Cafe Collective.
Students gathered Tuesday morning at the co-op before marching across campus to UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s house in the “Save the Che Rally: The Che chats with the Chancellor.” Organizers planned to present him with a petition of support for the venue that allegedly has more than 10,000 signatures (a Change.org petition had 1,736 signatures at time of publication).
“The Che Cafe Collective doesn’t mourn, it organizes,” the event description reads.
“The CHE [sic] is not dead. The CHE [sic] will not die. We do not mourn, we organize.”
The Che Cafe, a music venue collective, was decertified by UCSD’s student government and evicted by the university in June for allegedly failing to pay rent and keep up-to-date with safety regulations. The students were given 30 days to vacate yet chose not to do so.
Che Guevara cafe protests eviction after failing to pay rent (Campus Reform)
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“We do not mourn, we organize.”
Great. You should have “organized” a funding donation drive to pay your rent when you had the chance. But, you didn’t do that, so now you get to learn one of CHE’s less well known lessons: The life of a “freedom fighter” isn’t the cushy, comfortable thing that you’ve been living. It’s dark, lacks comforts, and usually leads to sorrow, despair and death in the face of overwhelming odds.