The Cal State L.A. encampment is at a commuter school on the Eastside, with a blue-collar, Latino-majority student body of all ages who wouldn’t seem to have the time to protest, let alone live in a tent town for days.
Valeria Mena opened the trunk of her SUV near Zamora Park in El Monte and beamed. She had emptied it to make room for as much stuff as possible. “This is as clean as it’s been in a while,” she joked to a group of friends. In went board games, a five-gallon jug of water and a pack of mini-water bottles, a soccer ball and boxes of Svenhard’s Danishes and Pringles. Next up: a trip to Walmart to buy safety goggles, zip ties, blankets and fire-resistant gloves.
' In the parking lot, Zhao Feng Ye was taking a break after unloading a carrier van packed with wooden pallets. “A lot of us adults are asking ‘What can we do?’ We’re marching, we’re calling politicians who are doing the bare minimum, and we feel helpless,” the 34-year-old San Gabriel Valley resident said. “So when we see the next generation do this — it’s not an easy task for them to risk standing up to a multibillion-dollar institution.
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