On August 19, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) , a national student group focused on anti-war efforts and student issues which re-emerged in 2006, formally approved a merger with Occupy Colleges.A previous national vote by the Occupy Colleges National Assembly was followed by intense discussion and a corresponding vote by the National Working Committee [...]
Dear Friends and Supporters: The movement has just begun! ForgiveStudentLoanDebt is re-branding as “Student Debt Crisis” to reflect the fact that the reforms we seek are not limited to just forgiveness of loans, but a whole host of other steps that chip away at the status quo. As you know, we’ve already [...]
Despite criticism over their generous executive compensation packages, the California State University trustees approved raises for three new campus presidents today, including a 9 percent increase for Leslie Wong, San Francisco State University’s new president. Wong now will earn $325,000 per year. Tomás Morales of CSU San Bernardino and Dianne Harrison of CSU Northridge each got a [...]
Congress may have a deal on extending the discounted interest rate on federal student loans, but there are a million people who want them to go further. Robert Applebaum, a former assistant district attorney from New York, delivered 1 million signatures Thursday from his petition for Congress to pass H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, at [...]
Geraldine Damiani Brezler took out a $5,000 student loan in the late 1960s to study at the State University of New York. She became a nurse, got married, bought a house and repaid the debt in less than three years. Today, her son, David, 38, owes about $85,000 in loans for a master’s degree in education [...]
With the economy still reeling from the Great Recession, many Americans are scraping by on lowered wages and, sadly, lowered prospects. With everything from car notes, housing payments, food and basic necessities, asking Americans to pay on their student loans right now can be a tall order. If you haven’t heard by now, loan debt in America has [...]
There was recently a lot of hullabaloo in Washington about student loans. Undergraduate federal student loan interest rates were set to double, and this would have increased the cost of an undergraduate education by many thousands of dollars per student. Luckily, just days before the increase was slated to take effect, a divided Congress and the [...]
uly 16, 2012 The increasing debt load of college graduates has affected young people’s lives in untold ways, from career choices to living arrangements. Now add another impact on a key part of young adult life: dating and marriage. Rachel Bingham, an art teacher in Portland, Maine, learned this a few years back, when a [...]
A Solidarity Statement from Occupy Colleges and Occupy Student Debt Written By Kyle McCarthy and Natalia Abrams Occupy Student Debt and Occupy Colleges have recently merged because of our overlapping principles. Collectively, our beliefs are simple: we are here to advocate on behalf of students and to educate as many people as possible on the growing crisis of [...]
Some student loans to become more expensive despite deal By Ylan Q. Mui, Updated: Wednesday, June 27, 10:04 AM College students are facing a roughly $20 billion increase in the cost of their federal loans, despite a much-heralded deal in Washington to contain the expense of higher education. Starting Sunday, students hoping to earn the graduate degrees that have become mandatory for many [...]
All across America college grads are struggling to find work and this is leaving many of them questioning whether the price of higher education was worth it. Student debt has recently surpassed credit card debt and that number may increase more rapidly than expected. Interest rates on government subsidized loans are set to double by [...]
June 22, 2012 Meet my best teachers. They are advocates of all cultures that learn, teach, model and show how to get more abundant supplies of food, energy, learning and health, along with cultures that cultivate access to opportunity to maximize potential for all groups and individuals. Over the past 3 years, I have been learning from these community heroes that are modeling a [...]
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER – #1 Concern is Tuition Increases !! How long will the voodoo economics last? Will Spain Fail? Is Greece Insolvent? Another Lehman’s? Did they ever fix the banks? Alan Greenspan to blame? Savings rate down to ZERO.
“American Student Assistance” a.k.a. Sallie Mae, has turned to more conventional means in order to get you to pay your student loans: fear. Assuming you don’t already live with the daily fear of not being able to pay your rent, buy your $4 per gallon milk, medical bills, etc., now you can receive e-mails [...]
“Robert Applebaum, a former assistant district attorney from New York, delivered 1 million signatures Thursday from his petition for Congress to pass H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, at the House side of the Capitol… About 20 students and college graduates and Occupy Colleges activists also joined the group. Their argument: forgiving [...]
Kyle McCarthy is interviewed about student loan debt and the Movie: Default.
All across America college grads are struggling to find work and this is leaving many of them questioning whether the price of higher education was worth it. Student debt has recently surpassed credit card debt and that number may increase more rapidly than expected. Interest rates on government subsidized loans are set to double by [...]
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER – #1 Concern is Tuition Increases !! How long will the voodoo economics last? Will Spain Fail? Is Greece Insolvent? Another Lehman’s? Did they ever fix the banks? Alan Greenspan to blame? Savings rate down to ZERO.
“Robert Applebaum, a former assistant district attorney from New York, delivered 1 million signatures Thursday from his petition for Congress to pass H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, at the House side of the Capitol… About 20 students and college graduates and Occupy Colleges activists also joined the group. Their argument: forgiving [...]
Congress may have a deal on extending the discounted interest rate on federal student loans, but there are a million people who want them to go further. Robert Applebaum, a former assistant district attorney from New York, delivered 1 million signatures Thursday from his petition for Congress to pass H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, at [...]
With the economy still reeling from the Great Recession, many Americans are scraping by on lowered wages and, sadly, lowered prospects. With everything from car notes, housing payments, food and basic necessities, asking Americans to pay on their student loans right now can be a tall order. If you haven’t heard by now, loan debt in America has [...]
A Solidarity Statement from Occupy Colleges and Occupy Student Debt Written By Kyle McCarthy and Natalia Abrams Occupy Student Debt and Occupy Colleges have recently merged because of our overlapping principles. Collectively, our beliefs are simple: we are here to advocate on behalf of students and to educate as many people as possible on the growing crisis of [...]
Maria Mayo March 8, U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke proposed theStudent Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (H.R. 4170). In making a case for the bill, he observed that the unemployment rate for college graduates was 9.1 percent in 2011, and that Americans’ outstanding student loan debt obligations now exceed $1 trillion. The bill aims “to increase purchasing power, strengthen [...]
Occupy Graduation: Students Shackle Themselves to Debt Students Nationwide Wear Debt Ball and Chain Occupy Colleges, a group that stands in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, has been encouraging students across the nation to occupy their graduation to raise awareness about student debt. Occupy Colleges has been sending students inflatable debt balls and chains to wear as [...]
The American Dream is a symbol of education and success, but many are finding themselves left with a lifetime of debt trying to achieve it. U.S. graduates can end up owing tens of thousands of dollars after college, in an economy where they then struggle to find a job. Now they’re questioning whether it’s all [...]
For Immediate Release Press Contacts Occupy Colleges- Natalia Abrams (323) 642-8102 – Info@Occupycolleges.org STUDENTS RALLY TO OCCUPY GRADUATION As student debt surpasses trillion dollar mark, students express frustration with not so bright future ahead of them Written for Occupy Graduation by Diana Delgado NEW YORK, NY (May 10, 2012) – Burdened by debt and silenced [...]
Peter Rothberg on January 12, 2012 – 7:29pm ET In honor of Monday’s national holiday marking the birth of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., I embarked on the impossible task of selecting a top ten list of songs about civil rights. The theme has resonated deeply with generations of artists of all stripes and [...]
We are at a cross road in society again. Created during Kent State , DEVO endures. The De-evolution of society is here again and now we have the internet to spread the word. As an early inventor of the music video, DEVO addressed real issues in society with many of their songs observing the world. [...]
The song was written during Lennon’s ‘Bed-In’ honeymoon: when asked by a reporter what he was trying to achieve by staying in bed, Lennon answered spontaneously “All we are saying is give peace a chance”; He sang the song several times during the Bed-In. Finally, on 1 June 1969, in Room 1742 at the Queen [...]
Here at Occupy Colleges, we are committed to a no draft policy. Our fellow college students will not need to serve in a draft environment and be forced to kill anyone. Non-Violent Resistance. Oh, I’m just a typical American boy from a typical American town I believe in God and Senator Dodd and a-keepin’ old [...]
Origin The song was inspired by an event at the dawn of the psychedelic era in November 1966, the year during which Buffalo Springfield started playing as the house band at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Times[2], annoyed residents and business owners in the district [...]
“Robert Applebaum, a former assistant district attorney from New York, delivered 1 million signatures Thursday from his petition for Congress to pass H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, at the House side of the Capitol… About 20 students and college graduates and Occupy Colleges activists also joined the group. Their argument: forgiving [...]
With the economy still reeling from the Great Recession, many Americans are scraping by on lowered wages and, sadly, lowered prospects. With everything from car notes, housing payments, food and basic necessities, asking Americans to pay on their student loans right now can be a tall order. If you haven’t heard by now, loan debt in America has [...]
There was recently a lot of hullabaloo in Washington about student loans. Undergraduate federal student loan interest rates were set to double, and this would have increased the cost of an undergraduate education by many thousands of dollars per student. Luckily, just days before the increase was slated to take effect, a divided Congress and the [...]
$ ,000 1. Enter Your Student Debt Amount! 3. Share this infographic with your friends Over the last few decades, student debt has exploded Use this calculator to see what that debt looks like in context. But don’t stop there. Do something about it. Get involved withYOUNG INVINCIBLES 2. Convert My Debt Into… Avg. Down [...]
In October of 2011, President Obama announced a new student loan initiative aimed at helping student borrowers better manage their debts. One piece of this initiative was the creation of a new type of federal consolidation loan, called a Special Direct Consolidation loan. The Special Direct Consolidation loan’s main benefit is a very modest (fraction of a percentile) [...]
Student loan rate deal reached, Senate leaders say By Rosalind S. Helderman Top leaders in the Senate say they have reached a deal on freezing student loan rates for another year, though they are still deciding the mechanics for how the proposal should make its way through the Congress in the final busy days before lawmakers [...]
Yesterday, 60,000 marched on Madison to mark the one-year anniversary of the passage of Governor Scott Walker’s drastic dismantling of collective bargaining rights for public employees. Last year, Walker’s attacks on labor rights sparked massive protests that saw hundreds of thousands occupy the Wisconsin capital building. Their actions prefigured Occupy Wall Street and inspired countless [...]
Overnight Los Angeles Police shut down the OccupyLA encampment in Downtown Los Angeles. The majority of protestors were peaceful and non-violent. Unfortunately, the police decided to arrest over 300 people last night. It is a scary process to be arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department, Homeland Security, and others. They have made it very [...]
Natalia Abrams on November 25, 2011 – 12:35pm ET An Open Letter and Pledge of Non-Violence to UC President Mark Yudof from the Founder of Occupy Colleges, As a UCLA alumni, I am horrified by the actions taken by the UC police at UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UCLA. In addition, there are new reports [...]
CSULB faculty, frustrated with Chancellor Reed’s corrupt leadership and misplaced priorities, have started a petition to Governor Brown to fire Chancellor Reed, cap all CSU executive salary and benefits from exceeding those of the governor of California, and demand that all tuition fee increases for students and pay cuts for faculty be linked to decreases in executive [...]
Pledge of Action and Solidarity with Student General Strike On November 22nd, 2011, the General Assembly of Occupy UC Davis agreed to a general strike of all California campuses on Monday, Nov. 28th to protest the recent cases of police repression and block the UC Board of Regents from voting on proposed fee increases and [...]
A daylong rally by City University of New York students against a planned tuition increase turned turbulent Monday evening when marchers ignored police requests to clear the lobby of a building at Baruch College where the university’s trustees were meeting and 15 people were arrested. The students were pushed to the ground and taken away [...]
WASHINGTON — The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to know why federal officials are not protecting the rights of Occupy demonstrators whose protests are being disbanded — sometimes violently — by local authorities. Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. “special rapporteur” [...]
GANDHI has been all over New York lately. First he appeared at Occupy Wall Street as a patron saint of sorts, inspiring the protest’s nonviolent tactics. (The demonstrators even named a lane for him.) Then he emerged at the Metropolitan Opera as the star of Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha.” But with the Zuccotti Park encampment [...]
Overnight Los Angeles Police shut down the OccupyLA encampment in Downtown Los Angeles. The majority of protestors were peaceful and non-violent. Unfortunately, the police decided to arrest over 300 people last night. It is a scary process to be arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department, Homeland Security, and others. They have made it very [...]
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Waves of protests spread across the globe over the last year from Egypt to Greece, demonstrating the strength of the human spirit. Refusing to be outdone, the United States began participating in this new-age movement of empowering the common man and fighting for social justice through Occupy Wall Street. Most recently, a new movement, Occupy [...]
Sharp admits that bold claims about his impact on events in the Middle East make him slightly uneasy; he doesn’t think he can substantiate them. It is true, though, that his early works—including, most notably, his three-volume treatise The Politics of Nonviolent Action—established his reputation as a leader in the small field of nonviolence studies. [...]
Thomas Emmet “Tom” Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, known for his involvement in the animal rights, and the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He is the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity. Contents [hide] 1 Life and career 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External links [edit]Life and career Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan, [...]
Recession and austerity fuel suicide in Italy—and the collection agency is exacerbating the situation. In late May, Marco Turrini reached his breaking point. Out of work for more than a year and under pressure from tax collectors, the 41-year-old publicity agent picked up his 4-year-old son, Samuele, and 14-month-old daughter, Benedetta, and threw them [...]
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Thursday, 28 June 2012 CONTACT: Brett Abrams : 516-841-1105 : brett@fitzgibbonmedia.com Students and Graduates Threatened by Huge Interest Rate Increases Bring Fight, 1 Million Signatures to the U.S. Capitol Over 1 Million Join SignOn.org Petition Calling on Congress to Forgive Student Debt ** http://signon.org/sign/support-the-student-loan ** As Student Loan Rates Set to Soar, Robert Applebaum [...]
Hamilton Nolan Why are banks so enthusiastic about marketing their products to college students? Because college students, like most young people, don’t know shit about shit. But unlike most kids, they have some money (even if they borrowed it). That means they are easy marks, and lucrative ones. A college student might think: “My school [...]
“Obama warns of congressional inaction on student loan bill” Rosalind S. Helderman and Amy Gardner, Published: June 7 LAS VEGAS — With a July 1 rate increase on education loans approaching, President Obama told students here on Thursday that it is Congress’s job to move swiftly to prevent the rise, even as Republicans in Washington accused him of ignoring their [...]
Hundreds of US students plan to use this summer’s graduation as a stage to protest crippling debt. With the presidential election on the horizon, policymakers are searching for a solution to the mountain of student debt which has topped $1 trillion. The protest movement has been baptized Occupy Graduation and is the brain-child of US [...]
ADA, Ohio — Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents. Her mother, who co-signed on the loans, is taking out a life insurance policy [...]
They’ve been warning administrators since last Friday that they’d do it, and the moment of truth has arrived: Four brave students from Cal State Northridge began their hunger strike against rising tuition yesterday, along with eight more CSU students scattered across five other campuses within the system. They will ingest only vegetable juice until [...]
Teach In Photos and Videos Wanted!
Send Photo and Emails to Info@OccupyColleges.Org At Occupy Colleges, we are dedicated to capturing this movement. Over the course of history, there have been images that have changed the world. We are all documentarians now. “Content is King” – Without you and your videos this movement did not happen. With current software a single photo [...]
Sign Up for your own Ad Free Ustream College Channel
We have connected with live stream and they have generously offered there ad-free services. It would be great if we could have each college live steaming their protest. In solidarity with Occupy Wall St. and Occupy Together, #occupycolleges is broadcasting the movement on Ustream: http://bit.ly/mPWmRw. Any city or college that wishes to join the live [...]
The National Solidarity Teach-in When : February 22nd or 23rd or both : Time: ALL DAY, times varied depending on school. A. STUDENT COORDINATORS :All you need is a small Group to facilitate a teach-in 1. Start with a small group of facilitators to help organize your Teach-In. 2. 3-4 college students to [...]
12/2/09 – New Study – Sub-Prime Loans Target Students Borrowers US Student Loan and Credit Card Debt Chart Why college student are burdened with Debt and what can they do about it? Student Loan Fury in the Occupy Movement Artistic Feel-Good Videos with Music: OWS March on Brooklyn Bridge - http://vimeo.com/29906321 Protest Signs with Kanye’s “Power” [...]
