CA: Activists to converge at UC Be(ZE)rkeley

Oakland Tribune ^ | 3/17/05

[NormsRevenge]

More than 1,300 college students will meet at University of California, Berkeley this weekend for a national conference for students involved in service, activism, politics and socially responsible work.

The COOL Idealist National Conference is the largest national meeting of college students involved in activism. The event includes a dozen daylong forums and 165 workshops, as well as an opportunities fair and an awards conference.

The conference is all day Friday through Sunday at various locations on campus. Visit www.idealist.org/ioc/conference for more information.

Event highlights include an opportunities fair from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday and 12:30 to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Pauley Ballroom West of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union and an Oxfam Hunger Banquet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, also in the Pauley Ballroom West.

At the banquet, participants will be assigned socioeconomic identities and will be served a corresponding meal. Participants with Third World status will eat rice and water and sit on the floor, while those from richer nations will eat a three-course meal at a table.

[NormsRevenge]

At the banquet, participants will be assigned socioeconomic identities and will be served a corresponding meal. Participants with Third World status will eat rice and water and sit on the floor, while those from richer nations will eat a three-course meal at a table.

LOL

[Mr. K]

I agree- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[cake_crumb]

So I guess the Young Republicans wouldn't be welcome?

[Drango]

Still boycotting Berkeley bump.

[Disambiguator]

Yes, but is it "shade-grown" rice? If noy, then they are being socially and environmentally unjust.

[nuke rocketeer]

"More than 1,300 college students will meet at University of California, Berkeley this weekend for a national conference for students involved in service, activism, politics and socially responsible work."

Socially responsible work = working for a socialist government agency or non-profit corp

Activism = Hate W, detest Republicans

Service = I swear to fall on my sword for Hilliary, Chuckie, Teddie, Ward, and any other leftist 'leader'

Politics = Hate W, detest Republicans

[deepFR]

Sounds like someone needs to call Eric Cartman to take care of this problem.

[jec41]

Can I drive a SUV or do I have to ride a camel?

[Che Chihuahua]

It just isn't the same student activism as in the 60s when self-interested idealism propelled students to oppose the draft and "fight" for social justice. It's close enough though.

Left wing radicalism idealism has always paid off in the end. Anti-capitialists like 60s ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin paid their "radical" dues and got jobs selling junk bonds alongside MBA shill Michael Milken at big stock brokerage firms like Drexel Burnham. Take a look at the epilogue of the 2002 documentary The Weather Underground, and check out how members of the so-called radical "Resistance" ended up with cushy jobs like teaching at a state law school or owning an upscale "pub" in New York City.

Maybe most upper middle class lefties simply ended up like the radical parents in the TV show Family Ties working for taxpayer supported public broadcast stations or as reasonably successful architects or some other "PC" profession. As for the non-elite, lower middle class useful idiots, many became school teachers or overpaid government social workers.

It's a dead cert that amongst the elite liberal oligarchy, paying your dues as a student activist is a prerequisite to entry into the higher strata of American intelligentsia, business, academia, and yes, the law. No doubt many of these young radicals will end up with influential positions in society. At some point, we should all come to the realization that oligarchs have co-opted left wing politics and are attempting to use it to control this nation.

[Che Chihuahua]

It just isn't the same student activism as in the 60s when self-interested idealism propelled students to oppose the draft and "fight" for social justice. It's close enough though.

Left wing radicalism idealism has always paid off in the end. Anti-capitialists like 60s ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin paid their "radical" dues and got jobs selling junk bonds alongside MBA shill Michael Milken at big stock brokerage firms like Drexel Burnham. Take a look at the epilogue of the 2002 documentary The Weather Underground, and check out how members of the so-called radical "Resistance" ended up with cushy jobs like teaching at a state law school or owning an upscale "pub" in New York City.

Maybe most upper middle class lefties simply ended up like the radical parents in the TV show Family Ties working for taxpayer supported public broadcast stations or as reasonably successful architects or some other "PC" profession. As for the non-elite, lower middle class useful idiots, many became school teachers or overpaid government social workers.

It's a dead cert that amongst the elite liberal oligarchy, paying your dues as a student activist is a prerequisite to entry into the higher strata of American intelligentsia, business, academia, and yes, the law. No doubt many of these young radicals will end up with influential positions in society. At some point, we should all come to the realization that oligarchs have co-opted left wing politics and are attempting to use it to control this nation.

[Clioman]

"Socially responsible work"? When I went to college, I did the other kind of work...the paying kind that covered my tuition expenses.

[Simmy2.5]

They should come down to UCR instead! Here, the anti-protesters (College Republicans) last Wednesday outnumbered the anti-war protesters (All socialist hippies. Most weren't even students. And one looks like my professor...)!