Click here to Visit OccupyGraduation.Net for additional information. On 25 April 2012, America’s student loan debt surpassed the one trillion dollar mark. That’s $1,000,000,000,000! Join us in mock celebration of this grim milestone. Throughout the country graduating seniors have pledged to use Commencement ceremony — their big day— to address this debt jubilee. Join us [...]
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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 [...]
For Immediate Release Press Contacts Occupy Wall Street – Press@Occupywallst.org Occupy Colleges- Natalia Abrams (323) 642-8102 – Info@Occupycolleges.org Occupy Student Debt – Kyle McCarthy (415) 483-9191 – Kyle@OccupyStudentDebt.org Workhouse Adam Nelson (212) 645-8006 – Nelson@Workhousepr.com STUDENTS RALLY TO OCCUPY GRADUATION As student debt surpasses trillion dollar mark, students express frustration with not so bright future [...]
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 [...]
How Did Quebec Students Mobilize Hundreds of Thousands for Strike? Three students discuss the role of direct democracy and political demands in building a massive movement
The Kent State Protest: Standing Up Against the Vietnam War The Kent State Shootings: Dealing With Dissent 02 1968 Kent, Ohio Jerry and Karen Hickerson KSU campus The Kent State Protest- “Standing Up Against the Vietnam War” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Ohio” (1970) OHIO – Kent State Massacre Montage [mirror] Civil Disturbances: Principles [...]
Colleges’ withholding of transcripts of graduates who’ve fallen behind on loan payments makes it even less likely that the student can get a job and resume loan payments. By Dave LindorffMay 2, 2012 Students traditionally have a soft spot for their alma maters. But as growing numbers of students run up debt in the high [...]
Faculty members in the California State University system said Wednesday that they had approved plans for a two-day rolling strike at campuses all over the state. The California Faculty Association, which represents professors, lecturers and librarians at the system’s 23 universities, has been negotiating with administrators for new contract for nearly two years. Union officials [...]
Thirteen students attending six Cal State University campuses have announced that they will begin a hunger strike on Wednesday, and citing the failure of traditional routes to result in any dialogue to address their concerns about tuition and other issues. Via: Members of Students for Quality Education said Friday that the hunger strike will begin [...]
Spring is here, and the Occupy movement is emerging from its winter hibernation. Or that’s what the occupiers are saying, anyway. With the tents of Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park just a memory, it’s unclear how the movement will unfold in the coming months. Some occupiers are trying to change the political establishment through lobbying and legislation. [...]
By Carl Davidson In the past few years, we have seen a variety of campus movements developing around the issue of’ ‘university reform.’ A few of these movements sustained a mass base for brief periods. Some brought about minor changes in campus rules and regulations. But almost all have failed to alter the university community [...]
Take Action to Break the Link Between Wall Street and Higher Education! On April 25, 2012 the total amount of student loan debt in the U.S.will top 1 trillion dollars. Join the Movement, Declare Your Support! On April 25th the total amount of student loan debt in the U.S. is due to top 1 trillion dollars. This marks [...]
The University of California admitted 43% more out-of-state and international students than last year, significantly boosting its efforts to reach out to those higher-paying freshmen, according to data released Tuesday. But it remains uncertain how many of these students will actually enroll since non-Californians are less likely to enroll than resident students, officials said. UC [...]
Peter Rothberg on April 16, 2012 – 4:52 PM ET Empowered by a federal court ruling that allows protesters to legally sleep on public sidewalks, as long as they don’t block building entrances or take up more than half of the available space, #SleepfulProtest is proving to be an effective new tactic helping speed Occupy Wall Street’s re-emergence [...]
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 [...]
How Did Quebec Students Mobilize Hundreds of Thousands for Strike? Three students discuss the role of direct democracy and political demands in building a massive movement
The Kent State Protest: Standing Up Against the Vietnam War The Kent State Shootings: Dealing With Dissent 02 1968 Kent, Ohio Jerry and Karen Hickerson KSU campus The Kent State Protest- “Standing Up Against the Vietnam War” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Ohio” (1970) OHIO – Kent State Massacre Montage [mirror] Civil Disturbances: Principles [...]
Visit http://Doo-Occupy.org to learn more about the Doo-Occupy to Bail Out America project. Join us! Be part of it! Doo-Occupy in your local community. Make donations to support this bold initiative at http://backbonecampaign.org/donate This music video was created as part of the Doo-Occupy, Bail Out America project, a collaboration instigated by the Backbone Campaign (http://BackboneCampaign.org) [...]
Peter Rothberg on April 16, 2012 – 4:52 PM ET Empowered by a federal court ruling that allows protesters to legally sleep on public sidewalks, as long as they don’t block building entrances or take up more than half of the available space, #SleepfulProtest is proving to be an effective new tactic helping speed Occupy Wall Street’s re-emergence [...]
Peter Rothberg The 99 Percent Spring Peter Rothberg on April 4, 2012 – 12:31 PM ET Original Article at The Nation Since Occupy Wall Street emerged last September, debates over its impact have roiled both liberals and conservatives confused by the fact of a (successful yet) leaderless movement lacking concrete demands. But something seems to [...]
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 [...]
See frame 3:09 – woman is dragged off by NYPD as they rip her dress.
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As the invaluable Democracy Now! reported this morning, New York City police arrested seventy-three Occupy Wall Street activists in Zuccotti Park on Saturday where hundreds had gathered to mark six months since the launch of OWS. Many people reported excessive use of force by officers; several cases were caught on camera and video. This is [...]
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 Wall Street – Press@Occupywallst.org Occupy Colleges- Natalia Abrams (323) 642-8102 – Info@Occupycolleges.org Occupy Student Debt – Kyle McCarthy (415) 483-9191 – Kyle@OccupyStudentDebt.org Workhouse Adam Nelson (212) 645-8006 – Nelson@Workhousepr.com STUDENTS RALLY TO OCCUPY GRADUATION As student debt surpasses trillion dollar mark, students express frustration with not so bright future [...]
For Immediate Release Press Contact: Natalia Abrams 323-642-8102 Written for Occupy Colleges by Diana Delgado APRIL 16 STUDENTS RALLY AGAINST TUITION HIKES & VIOLENCE AGAINST STUDENTS Inspired by Santa Monica College student demonstrations, students hold solidarity march for quality and affordable education and against police violence against students NEW YORK, NY (April 5, 2012) [...]
For Immediate Release Press Contact: Natalia Abrams 323-642-8102 Written for Occupy Colleges by Diana Delgado DEAR GOVERNORS: NO CUTS IN EDUCATION BUDGET, PLEASE Students unite to create a petition that freezes all cuts in state budgets, affecting all public school students K-12 and all college/university students NEW YORK, NY (April 5, 2012) – Occupy Colleges [...]
For Immediate Release Press Contact: Natalia Abrams 323-642-8102 Written for Occupy Colleges by Diana Delgado “LET US IN, SHAME ON YOU” Administrators fail to make proper accommodations for over 100 students wanting to speak at a public meeting held to address a 400% tuition hike that would affect all California community college students LOS [...]
About 100 students protesting a plan to offer high-priced courses at Santa Monica College this summer tried to storm into a meeting of the college’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday evening. A handful of protesters suffered minor injuries as campus police tried to prevent dozens of chanting students from disrupting the meeting during a public [...]
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 [...]
Colleges’ withholding of transcripts of graduates who’ve fallen behind on loan payments makes it even less likely that the student can get a job and resume loan payments. By Dave LindorffMay 2, 2012 Students traditionally have a soft spot for their alma maters. But as growing numbers of students run up debt in the high [...]
by Adam S. Minsky, Esq. There’s some more good news coming out of Congress (if you can believe that). A few weeks ago, Congressman Hansen Clarke introduced the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 which, if passed, would help millions of student loan borrowers better manage their federal and private student loans. Now, Senator Richard [...]
The damage to our educational infrastructure is growing, according to Catherine Rampell’s chilling report in the New York Times. As state funding has dwindled, public colleges have raised tuition and are now resorting to even more desperate measures — cutting training for jobs the economy needs most. She describes how badly needed engineering and nursing school [...]
We here at Pluck recently had the opportunity to chat with Robert Applebaum, the founder of Forgive Student Loan Debt, a grassroots movement that aims to unburden students from their debt in order to unleash the full potential of our economy. Pluck Magazine: How did you first become interested in the issue of student debt? [...]
A controversial proposal from Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown to slash grant funding for private school students was defeated on Wednesday, after students and faculty rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. An Assembly subcommittee voted 4-0 to reject the cuts to Cal Grants, an income-based financial aid program, after hearing testimony from students. Assemblywoman [...]
A typical college graduate now owes about $25,000 when he or she finishes school. This could be the economy’s ‘next debt bomb,’ a bankruptcy attorney warns A new study has found that there has been a significant increase in the number of consumers seeking the help of bankruptcy attorneys as a result of outstanding student [...]
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, [...]
The Ohio State University is an educational institution, yet for some reason, the institution does not always make education the number one priority. Since OSU is a public school after all, doesn’t it make sense that those who are the reason for its existence should have a say in the momentous decisions being made? Over [...]
Occupy Colleges announces the first ad-server system for the Occupy Action Network.. Conceived as a response to the ad networks around the country selling ad space via popular engines as Google and Bing. OccupyAdNetwork offers a free space to promote your actions. Each ad will serve onto your space: The best area to show an [...]
As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers’ Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal magazine and a key facilitator of the Occupy movement; Marina Sitrin, author of “Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina” and a member of Occupy’s legal [...]
RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports from the New York protests against 1 trillion dollar student debt in the U.S.
Notice how the occupiers look like they are having fun, instead of foaming with anger? “That was completely conscious,” says Nelini Stamp, an organizer with Occupy Wall Street whose mother lost her home to Bank of America in 2006. “This is not a shutdown. We want to make light of the situation but also carry [...]
… Time to get up: A police captain ordered protesters off the sidewalk near the stock exchange early Monday morning. Updated, 11:24 p.m. | The police arrested four people near the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning after telling Occupy Wall Street protesters, who have been gathering there for a week, that they were not permitted [...]
April 25th is 1T Day – Join the Rally Occupy Colleges is in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Student Debt for their call to action on 1T Day, Wednesday, April 25th. On April 25, 2012, total student debt is due to surpass one trillion dollars. This staggering figure, which is higher than credit [...]
Mark Taylor-Canfield Mark Taylor-Canfield is a Seattle musician, activist and writer. Entire Article at Huffingtonpost.com A major battle over free speech is being waged on local college campuses in Seattle. The Seattle Community College District Board of Trustees wants to revise the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) for Seattle colleges. The district is proposing new rules [...]
UPDATE: 3:00pm EST Dream Defenders, the group of college students who forced the temporary shutdown of the Sanford Police Department, reached an agreement with city officials to hold a community forum on April 19th, ending today’s five-hour demonstration. Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte, Jr. agreed on an April 19 public forum to discuss concerns regarding the police [...]
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 [...]
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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” [...]
