November 2011 Blog Posts (12)

Source: www.mercurynews.com:

Some UC Davis students have staged a sit-in at the campus financial aid office as part of a general strike in protest of rising tuition. 

Davis protesters take over financial aid building, hold teach-in…

Education cannot thrive unless we who have exposure to the best research on it, are given seats at the political tables that have begun to define and constrain education, from pre-K up through graduate school. Politicians, school boards and the U.S. Dept. of Education have made it their mission to "reform" education, in response to their own employers - voters. Voters, fearing the high cost of education and published reports of slippage against the educational standards of other nations have…

By Brad Knickerbocker

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Date:  11/20/2011

Police use of pepper spray to disburse “occupy” demonstrators at UC Davis has…

Thousands of students have begun "Occupying" New York University's Campus for the "Student Week of Action." Students are covering parts of the campus from Washington Square Park to Union Square. Today is the two month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, also being called "The Day of Action."

Not only are NYU students standing up against tuition hikes, student debt and other issues, but campuses across the city like Columbia University, Julliard, The New School and CUNY Hunter are all…

Source: Erick Schonfeld

www.techcrunch.com

Date:  11/16/2011

For all the benefits of living in a connected world, there is one huge disconnect: the economy seems to be growing, but it is not creating jobs. This disconnect is not a temporary blip that will disappear with a full economic recovery. It is part of a longer-term structural change in the economy.

Yesterday at the …

Source: Associated Press

Date: 11/14/2011

(AP)  NEW YORK — Ten years after celebrity defense attorney Alan Dershowitz agreed to donate his papers to his alma mater, the collection once owned by the man whose clients have included Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson opened to scholars and the public on Monday.



The 1,000 boxes of letters, case files and other materials donated to Brooklyn College include correspondence with Tyson, Claus von Bulow and Leona Helmsley, but…

By Thomas Frey

Source Futurist Speaker

“There is no future in any job. The future lies in

the person who holds the job.” – George…

November 14th, 2011

A search that was done on Wikipedia today yielded this:

"Please Read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales."

From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

The veteran activist participated in United Farm Workers and Chicano rights movements.

By J. Almendarez

Source: TheRanger.org 

6:11pm November 10, 2011

For about two months, protesters have gathered at Wall Street in New York City to protest corporate greed — or something.

Their intentions were…

Source: NPR.com

BY Eyder Peralta

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/11/08/142146941/congressman-calls-for-federal-investigation-into-penn-state-scandal

***Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno's support among the school's board of trustees is fragile amid a child sex-abuse scandal involving a former…