[UPDATE 4:50 a.m.: More Names Added] Letter to the CSU Administration From Community Leaders Calls for Dialogue
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Humboldt County Supervisor Natalie Arroyo forwarded the letter which continues to gather signatures this evening. She wrote, “Attached, please find a link to a letter which local officials continue to sign on to. I believe the message is very timely, so am sending now. Thank you for reading the letter carefully to understand its intent fully. The undersigned look forward to hearing from you and helping our community find a productive and safe path forward.”
As local elected and appointed leaders in our community, we urge continued patience, understanding, dialogue, and a focus on the physical and mental safety of our entire community as you seek to reopen the Cal Poly Humboldt campus. This response has included very few civic leaders in the decision-making process, and as the people chosen by our community to represent local needs, we are deeply concerned about the welfare of all individuals who are on campus or will be on campus. We strongly encourage you to work with local leadership to find solutions and avoid violence. Property damage can be fixed, but physical harm to people cannot. In the very near term, please provide a briefing for local leaders so that we can understand how best to support our community during this time. This is a simple but incredibly important request. Our contact information is provided below. Please inform us about how we can engage for the wellbeing of all. (If you are an elected or appointed leader in the community, please feel welcome to add your information below and add lines as needed!)
Signed as of 6:18 p.m.: Supervisor Arroyo stated, “[T]here are more folks signing on. I imagine there will continue to be throughout the evening.”
UPDATE 8:30 p.m.: More names have been added.
UPDATE 4:50 a.m.: Two more names were added. 
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Go home then. Simple. Join the Peace Corps, Red Cross, doctors without boarders. Do something that gains results versus disrupt lives and bankrupt the businesses that will lose out when our commencement gets cancelled cause a few.
County supervisors should be calling for the prosecution of all occupiers. And any of them not enrolled at CPH must be held on criminal trespass charges. Vandalism and school disruption must be compensated…
Also felony malicious mischief.
Ah yes the HSU Commencement! The pillar of our local economy! That day when 1/8th of Cal Poly’s students celebrate leaving Arcata for good. Without the Commencement Ceremony, why, some might question their commitment to becoming a future local grant humper, or Helping Professional BMW commuter.
really? do you have a clue to how many little businesses depend on the grads and their families as they spend a lot of money the week leading up to that day and the few days after — that money is very much needed to get them through the thin times … some are even just hanging on for that to get them over the hump.
At this point, I’d rather take my ass to Fortuna or further down into Mendocino after everything just to spite the people in Arcata for supporting the eviction of the protestors in a learning environment in what it means to actually be active in their communities.
Translation: Green Rush is over. Show us the money! If you have no money… get a student loan (other people’s money). Welcome to Arcata. It rains here.
Thank you Arroyo!!!!
Have any of you looked in the crystall ball? The last bit of optimistic news was years ago… when good ol’ HSU was going to be Bigger N Better! A…Cal Poly….what a huge disappointment! Disastrous enrollment this year…terrible PR w kicking the homeless (embarrassing that is a thing here/anywhere for folks enrolled at a “university “) Athletic department = disaster…oh ya housing issues, terrible leadership, yada yada yada. Now this protest disaster – tell the crain operator guy (new dorms) off the 101 to take a break…nobody coming to this shit show!
I have looked in the crystall ball…I went to HSU, built a business here, raised my kids here… I’m outta here! Good Luck Cal Poly!
Don’t let the door hit ya in the way out, such a positive person, I’m guessing you are divorced
New dorms can always become high end and new “houseless” (please use correct terminology) paid for by Government Incentive Program. Cal Polysocialist University, Humboldt.
The Supervisor is a few days and millions of dollars in damages short. But maybe the students who can’t go to class or have a graduation ceremony should occupy the Supervisors chambers? What would Arroyo say then?
How is the millions of dollars of damages arrived at? Are they expecting to have to gut the building?
The university has demonstrated exactly why they have students that would act like this, the administration models violence, aggression, and obstinance
Disinfectant is expensive plus a fund will need to established to cover the cancer the Professors have created.
So there’s no real justification for the claim of millions in damages and its just more government graft?
Last I heard… Cal Polysocialist University, Humboldt was a Public Institution. For some time tuition paid for those expensive professors like the one arrested and the tenured variety. However along came Student Loans to guarantee the Professors salaries and when that wasn’t working – the govt. once again subsidized places like Cal Polysocialist University, Humboldt. If it weren’t for the school, Arcata would likely resemble Orick.
“Violence,violence,it’s the only thing that can make them see sense…” Mott the Hoople.
Our local politicians jockeying for electoral position.
“Property damage can be fixed, but physical harm to people cannot. ”
Hmm… That must the philosophy behind Humboldt Co having no doctors.
“Property damage can be fixed, but physical harm to people cannot. ”
Sounds like something someone without money would say… 😆
“Property damage can be fixed, but physical harm to people cannot. So send money.”
The physical and mental well-being of the community is just fine. These terrorists ARE NOT part of this community. They are simply terrorists.
It’s been time for days to end this. Remove the human trash and put them in a facility that can help them realize what they are doing is 100% evil, like jail. This letter is 100% BS as it doesn’t do a damn thing to restore classes for those who have had that robbed from them, graduation for those who worked hard to earn a degree or terminate the faculty supporters.
There’s never a time for an OCCUPY group. Yet, the loser “leadership” just sit back and do nothing. Every leader in the county has failed 100%. None of them deserve to be called leadership. They should be called thieves as they keep taking taxpayer dollars for not doing anything at all. But then, after all, it’s Comifornia.
Ignorance births fear; fear births anger; anger births hate… and apparently hate births hyperbole
this!
“There’s never a time for an OCCUPY group.” So I assume that you oppose the $3.8 billion of our tax $ going to Apartheid Israel, plus the billions given to fuel this genocide, to help Apartheid Israel while it OCCUPIES Palestine. In this case I’m making an ass out of you, but not me.
Thank you so much Supervisor Arroyo and all who signed!!!
She’s likely the least qualified airhead in all of Humboldt County. She has a proven track record of nothing.
A list of all the progressive in public service, who are the problem.
More feel good gestures that will do nothing.
Show up at the University.
County supervisors should be calling for the prosecution of all occupiers. And any of them not enrolled at CPH must be held on criminal trespass charges. Vandalism and school disruption must be compensated.
This obsession to coddle these toddlers is absurd. All these adults reminiscing about the good ‘ol days they fought for good causes are as misguided as these kids, romanticizing ”liberation” for Palestinians straight into the arms of Hamas and their radical oppressive genocidal suicidal jihad ideology. So dumb.
They say that property damage can be fixed but who is paying for that and physical harm can’t be but they have no idea what kind of physical harm is being done to the people who can’t attend classes or have a graduation. I would not vote for anyone who condones this crap. Let the people get back to their classes.
100% who is paying for all the therapy???
The therapy for what? The people who willingly took part in the fiasco and created a mess that someone else has to pay to clean up because we know they aren’t going to. The therapy for the people who aren’t even students here?
Exactly!!! Thank you to all.
These are our towns, and the university gets to be here.
WE pay for those police from Fortuna, HCSO,etc. Will the university be reimbursing the police depts???
At the veru least, local elected leaders ought to at least be advised and kept in the loop. What happens on campus affects the community, its surrounded by neighborhoods.
Maybe we are better off with no university, definitely need to go back to HSU & not be a cal poly. Have seen absolutely no benefit from it becoming poly technic at all.
To cal poly…show respect to the communities who let you operate here. You are literally in a neighborhood.
You are being extremely disrespectful to all pf us. It will not be fprgotten.
Proud to say I went to HSU as it was in the mid 90s. Talk about protests in the area!! It was just a friggin great school, so laid back.
Really sad to see the poly tech ruin it.
Uhhh and wheres Tom Jackson???
Who is writing the responses to the protesters?
Who exactly is making the decision to bring in all these police?
Names please. Stop hiding behind “cal poly humboldt”, accountability matters!
From NY tines article….
In November, after the university discovered that some students were living in their vehicles on campus because they could not afford housing, the school ordered them to move out or face disciplinary action. In 2022, Mr. Jackson apologized for comments he made during a welcome address that some saw as an attempt to hide reports of sexual assault in the campus community.
“That was sort of the beginning of him totally disappearing,” said Cindy Moyer, the chair of the university’s Department of Dance, Music and Theater. “He does not appear to take controversy well.”
Mr. Jackson was unavailable for comment, according to a spokeswoman. But last Friday, he told the local Times-Standard newspaper that the protesters were “criminals” and did not rule out sending in police at some point. “Everything is on the table,” he said.”
How difficult could it be to economically divest from Israeli goods and services, really?
It might be tougher for one school to divest from defense contractors profiting from the war crime, but the school could take a swat at it, and the protesters would have left. They can’t complain about the cost of the occupation, then blow the whole thing up with rentacops from all over. The school already has a graffiti budget, and staff that’s cheaper than slumber party cops. The University administration is a revolving door of goofballs who can’t get it in the real world. Remember the Christian Radio Man-Karen brought in to destroy KHSU? He fired all the volunteers, cancelled the popular shows, plugged in 1 hr loops of NPR broadcast to a community that drives 3-4 hr round trips for groceries and government, then sued because people didn’t like him.
But are there situations in which it’s wrong to abandon a group of people? I ask that with an extreme amount of generality for a reason. If we take this sequentially, and mark each ethical proposition which we agree with and believe is relevant to the matter at hand, is it possible that we’d find ourselves confounded by our own said propositions? For instance, if we say that a group of people who become occupied by an outside force, and find themselves mistreated and desire then to remove themselves to another place, say, from Jerusalem to the Gaza Strip, or to the West Bank, that these people have a right to fight to regain what was taken from them, did we not just validate the Israeli position?
Surely the ethical algorithmic line of code that incriminates Israel cannot be its relative material success, because if this were so, then the world would be in for a constant war; to wit, by your determination the Palestinians are ill-treated, and have a right to some or all of Israel. Assuming you’re not a racist, being thus restored, you believe the Palestinians fortunes would turn. At such time as they overtake the Israelis (as could happen, if even slightly) then it would be time for us to be up in arms that justice had not been done properly and some violence, should the Israelis partake in it, would be unjustly met with violence to put it finally to rest.
I’m not saying I have the answer, but you sure seem confident that one side here is clearly in the wrong. Do you use the historical record to get here? That’s good. The problem, however, is that once you do this, you’ve no right to then declare where the “going back” stops. Stopping the clock where it lands in your favor is caprice. Progressive people cannot abide in caprice – all must be excruciatingly though out, and transcend mere polemics, no? Who are the Palestinians? Have you consulted the genomic data? Who are the Israelis? Who are the Canaanites? Are the Canaanites the Palestinians? We have answers for this (not to mention written history – remember, ya can’t stop going back capriciously). Progressive people cannot be science deniers, right? I mean, that would be ironic.
But are there situations in which it’s wrong to abandon a group of people? I ask that with an extreme amount of generality for a reason. If we take this sequentially, and mark each ethical proposition which we agree with and believe is relevant to the matter at hand, is it possible that we’d find ourselves confounded by our own said propositions? For instance, if we say that a group of people who become occupied by an outside force, and find themselves mistreated and desire then to remove themselves to another place, say, from Jerusalem to the Gaza Strip, or to the West Bank, that these people have a right to fight to regain what was taken from them, did we not just validate the Israeli position?
Surely the ethical algorithmic line of code that incriminates Israel cannot be its relative material success, because if this were so, then the world would be in for a constant war; to wit, by your determination the Palestinians are ill-treated, and have a right to some or all of Israel. Assuming you’re not a racist, being thus restored, you believe the Palestinians fortunes would turn. At such time as they overtake the Israelis (as could happen, if even slightly) then it would be time for us to be up in arms that justice had not been done properly and some violence, should the Israelis partake in it, would be unjustly met with violence to put it finally to rest.
I’m not saying I have the answer, but you sure seem confident that one side here is clearly in the wrong. Do you use the historical record to get here? That’s good. The problem, however, is that once you do this, you’ve no right to then declare where the “going back” stops. Stopping the clock where it lands in your favor is caprice. Progressive people cannot abide in caprice – all must be excruciatingly though out, and transcend mere polemics, no? Who are the Palestinians? Have you consulted the genomic data? Who are the Israelis? Who are the Canaanites? Are the Canaanites the Palestinians? We have answers for this (not to mention written history – remember, ya can’t stop going back capriciously). Progressive people cannot be science deniers, right? I mean, that would be ironic.
Pretty darn difficult. First the CPH has said they have no direct ownership of any businesses. They only have mutual funds. Mutual funds are not a la carte. It’s all or none. Frankly the divest demand is only a ploy by protesters wanting to protest but having nothing specifically demand from the university as an excuse. It’s a stupid idea that sounds good to the ignorant.
There is the fact that the world’s biggest manufacturer of generic drugs is Teva, an Israeli company. They make generic products like epinephrine injectable solution (EpiPen), albuterol sulfate inhalation aerosol (ProAir), emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate tablets (Truvada) and lidocaine transdermal patch (Lidoderm Patch). The next biggest is Sandoz, a Swiss company that doesn’t like the US market and is trying to get out of the problematic US market. The third is a US company that mostly does cancer drugs and would not want the less profitable generics made by Teva. The fourth is an Indian company which has a well known quality issue. These drugs can not be shifted around , even if anyone would want to take Teva’s place, without huge disruption. Likely the same is true for other industries.
Come on, cal polyp pays no property taxes, gives employment to a great number of incompetent unemployeables and keeps innumerable roach coaches in business. Send your kids there so they get the education (sic) they deserve.
Glad it ended quickly and quietly. If this would have gone on it would have turned into another Seattle CHAZ with murder and rape run amok.
Thanks to all the law-enforcement and staff of the campus that actively worked to end this occupation.
Funny… does she not know Sarah Schaefer, Arcata city council person and ex mayor was with the protestors?? 😂 Pretty sure she got arrested so which civic leaders are they supposed to consult??
Jewish community members have been warning both Eureka and Arcata city council members, as well as multiple administrators and faculty on campus, FOR MONTHS about this ongoing escalation caused by these misguided stooges. Y’all didn’t listen and didn’t care. Now you wake up, but still not a single word of condemnation for the bigotry and hostility these vandals expressed towards Jewish people.
You just don’t want the students to get their comeuppance??? Shameful.
Next to no-one on this list makes their living in the real world and they all want more dialogue with anti-semites.
What nonsense. Just arrest, imprison expel and fine. Immediately.