University of North Florida students have been protesting weekly at the downtown jail in support of Conor Cauley, a 30-year-old local activist currently serving a 60-day sentence in jail after a 2025 city council protest.
Some of the students are members of the Jacksonville Students for a Democratic Society (Jax SDS), and are attempting to make enough noise to permeate through the thick concrete walls of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Pretrial Detention Facility. They bring chant sheets, megaphones, drums, and enough percussion to let everyone on the block know of their presence.
Felix Bonventre, a UNF student, lifts their megaphone and screams into the mic. “Oink, Oink, piggy piggy, we the people run this city!”…