Senior Citizens Arrested in UC Nuclear Protest
Two dozen senior citizens were arrested Thursday during an anti-nuclear demonstration at the University of California, Berkeley, authorities said.
About 200 people, some of them members of a group called Elders for Survival, sang protest songs as 28 people were arrested for blocking the entrance to University Hall, administrative headquarters for the nine-campus UC system, a university spokeswoman said.
The demonstrators were protesting the university’s ties to the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories, which conduct nuclear weapons research, she said.
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