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Description: Photo looks past a woman handing out yellow support ribbons and onto a small collection of students walking with picket signs. One sign reads, "Grad students are people too." The UC Berkeley Student Union is in the background. Photo caption reads: Sumi Cho of South Bend, Ind., a teaching assistant in Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley, hands out yellow ribbons at the south entrance of the campus in Berkeley Wednesday. Some of the 3,200 teaching and research assistants walked out of classrooms and onto picket lines to press a demand for recognition as employees.

Used: Oakland Tribune