LATHE VOICE VOZ OF DE ANZA NEWS SINCE 1967 VOL. 50 | NO. 11 LAVOZDEANZA.COM MARCH 20, 2017 STUDENTS FIGHT BACK Students host an educational event about the Dakota Access pipeline and bank divestment. PHOTO BY ALEX RODRIGUEZ In protest of CSU tuition hikes, students participate in a zombie lie-in protest. PHOTO BY EMILY LEW STUDENT-LED GROUPS ORGANIZE AGAINST THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE WATER IS LIFE CUTLINE Alex Rodriguez environmental studies department; and Meghan Kensler, De STAFF REPORTER Anza College Native American law and policies professor. “[I grew up believing] earth my body, and water my blood,” Sayers-Rood said. “When song, ceremony and dance stop, so De Anza paved the way for sustainability awareness does the earth.” with two day long educational booths spearheaded by the Lizama said he decided to go to Standing Rock with an DASB Environmental Sustainability Committee and the De acquaintance and “realized I was killing myself for a system Anza Political Revolution club on Wednesday, March 8 and that doesn’t care about me.” Thursday, March 9. De Toro referred to the issue of environmental racism Students for Justice provided information on how to divest during the panel. from credit unions that support DAPL, and artists from the “It’s difficult to see this going on in our own country,” said Environment Club helped host booths. De Toro. “It’s opened up the eyes of people who don’t realize DAPR president Eddie Cisneros, 23, public health major this is going on all over the world.” said, “We hope to have educated many different students on De Toro said it is a well-known fact that communities with the pressing issues surrounding water both here in California a higher concentration of minorities face more environmental around the country and around the world.” issues. Flint is a mostly African-American community, and Wednesday consisted of a panel of speakers on the parallels can be drawn with the recent issue in the Fruitvale looming Dakota Access Pipeline and the water crisis in Flint, district of Oakland, where the water was contaminated with Michigan. lead, she said. Speakers included Elih Lizama, a Native American activist from Sacramento; Kanyon Sayers-Rood, an artist and activist; De Anza College professor Alicia De Toro, chair of the > SEE: WATER, P.6 NEWS FEATURES SPORTS DASB Senate votes to support Giant bag of urine in bathroom Don’s baseball season so far resolution divesting from Israel shows need for more plumbers PAGE 3 PAGE 7 PAGE 11 MARCH 20, 2017 EVENTS 2 LAVOZDEANZA.COM Justice for All? 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Elections committee* senate office friday 12:30 Pm you can also find us on facebook at EXECUTIVE ADVISORY* Senate Office friday 11:30 pm @dasbsenate, or at deanza.edu/dasb. *These committees do not meet every week NEWS MARCH 20, 2017 LAVOZDEANZA.COM 3 Student gov passes Israel divestment resolution Kunal Mehta illegal under international law. company. of a similar resolution that San The vote passed 12-1, with STAFF REPORTER “During 2016 alone, 18 Lopez described the situation Jose State University’s student four senators abstaining. DASB resolutions adopted in the general in Israel as “apartheid,” citing government passed in 2015. President Matthew Zarate was the The DASB Senate passed assembly of the United Nations a report published by a United Former SJSU student Abid El- only dissenter. a resolution advocating the and others in the Human Rights Nations commission earlier Miarri, who was involved in their Zarate said he wanted those Foothill-De Anza Foundation’s Council have all condemned that day that stated “Israel has campus’s divestment proposal, opposing the resolution to have divestment from companies Israel’s actions,” Lopez said. established an apartheid regime” noted that the movement started time to prepare a presentation and profiting from illegal Israeli She said that divesting is against Palestinians. Most of the as a request from the Palestinian explain their view, as was done settlements in the West Bank the neutral action and does not member states of the Economic people. with the Measure B discussion on Wednesday, March 15. The support either side in the conflict. and Social Commission for “Please don’t force Palestinian last year.