Posted on 11/12/2015 2:33:30 PM PST by Mariner
Student demonstrations are set to engulf the U.S. today in the ‘Million Student March’, as activists from campuses around the country stage a day of protests against tuition fees and student debt, further inflamed by recent social justice protests at Yale and Missouri.
A statement from the activists reads: “We are people of all colors, genders, and sexual orientation, and we are united to fight for education as a human right.†Protesters are calling for tuition-free public college, cancellation of student debt, and a $15 minimum wage for college workers… plus a lot of other stuff about “straight white male patriarchy†and rape culture on campus.
The atmosphere is likely to be particularly charged given that the day of protests occurs after a week of political unrest on U.S campuses, particularly Yale and the University of Missouri, over racial issues. Breitbart News will bring you live updates from around the country as the protests unfold.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
We got us a beginnings of another Kent State, IMHO.
25% and I’m on board...
They want ‘free’ everything.
Any government that’s big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take everything you have.
TINSTAAFL...................
Not likely, with a Dem Governor and a Communist Organizer POTUS...............
“Campus Crazies”
I’m sure parents who are paying the bills (or not) are so proud! /s
Which one of these guys is a Veteran?
OOPS! That would be none!
Useful Tools for Dem Party, nothing more
The thought that keeps recurring in my mind is that these students sure have a lot of time on their hands. Their courses of study must not be very challenging if they can attend endless protests over hoax claims and poop swastikas.
And on top of that they want us to pay for it. A generation of brats in need of a good slap.
Where are the parents footing the bills for these deadbeat kids? I know my parents would take a dim view if I was marching instead of studying. I would be paying my own tuition or dropping out.
Ecologically they could do somebody a favor. Did I say that out loud?
we work toward universities defined by participatory democracy: schools run from the bottom-up, not the top-down.
http://www.forstudentpower.org/about-for-student-power
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See the “Port Huron Statement” issued by Students for a Democratic Society
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LOL! Where’s the outrage about celebs and pro athletes making gazillions of dollars that a lot of ceo’s could only dream of? I heard the other day the highest paid “entertainer” for the past year is katy perry at $159 million. I guess that’s all good since they’re for the little guy and want them to get their $15/hr at mickey d’s and burger king and wendy’s and taco bell blah, blah, blah.
The guy @ Mizzou is a radical Black. 60s type: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/university-of-missouri-appoints-black-interim-president-michael-middleton/#disqus_thread
Center for Education Policy & Advocacy
Our campaigns cover a range of student issues and strive to build a campus environment that is inclusive of and responsive to the diverse needs of students from different cultures and backgrounds, including but not limited to ALANA, LGBTQ, low socio-economic, first generation, international and nontraditional students.
http://www.umass.edu/cepa/cepas-core-teams-and-mission
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Note: ALANA means African, Latino, Asian and Native American
That is a good point. I wonder if Hillary is behind this movement of misguided, low-information students?
Note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes.
Please consider the following from a related thread . . .
Other than the fact that the states have never done so, there is conceptually nothing wrong with the idea of the states delegating to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax the rich to pay for college for everyone who is eligible. This is evidenced by the following suggestion by Thomas Jefferson for the rich to provide such funding.
”The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
”The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. . . . Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings [emphasis added].” Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
The problem with Jeffersons idea concerning free federal government anything as evidenced by todays unconstitutionally big federal government is the following. Federal government social spending in this post 17th-Amendment ratification era leads to unaccountable federal spending, free education funding a target for corrupt college and federal leaders in this example.
“COLUMBIA, Mo. – President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted officials from more than 100 universities, colleges and nonprofit groups at the White House today for a higher education summit. The University of Missouri was selected by the president to participate based on the university’s commitment to helping low-income students attend and succeed at college. Deputy Chancellor Mike Middleton represented MU at the summit.”
http://economicdevelopment.missouri.edu/features/2014/white-house-education-summit/index.php
Sounds hand-picked to me.
That’s racist. How dare you say something so mean, insensitive and microaggressive. /s
“The thought that keeps recurring in my mind is that these students sure have a lot of time on their hands. Their courses of study must not be very challenging if they can attend endless protests over hoax claims and poop swastikas.”
I spent a grand total of maybe 10 hours a week on studies and class. And that was for Mechanical/Nuclear engineering 10+ years ago.
If you were above the bottom 5-10%, you were pretty much guaranteed to pass due to the “curve”.
I thought they coddled kids too much and diluted degrees even back then. I can’t imagine now...
And all around the country, 16 people showed up, including a wino who thought there were going to be donuts and two horny guys scoping the hot acti-babes.
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