Brooklyn College Walk-Out ( YouTube. NU_Sitdown_occupyboston.mov. Occupy Colleges 10/5/11. Occupy Colleges letter read on Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC. Occupy Colleges with #OccupyHumboldt. #OccupyWallStreet Campus Walkout This Wednesday at Noon. Occupy Wall Street: College Students Urged To Walk Out Today : The Two-Way. Hide caption The scene this week at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images As the Occupy Wall Street protests enter their 19th day and continue to spread well beyond lower Manhattan, there's word from the related "Occupy Colleges" movement that a "nationwide college student walk out" has been called for noon today. Right now (8 a.m. ET) the website lists 75 colleges where walkouts are expected to happen. Meanwhile, on Morning Edition today, Planet Money's Zoe Chace reported from the protest site in Manhattan that it appears "everybody has a say in everything" in the general assembly that makes decisions about what the Occupy folks, who represent many different interests, will do. There's wonderful audio in her piece of the protesters — who aren't being allowed by authorities to use amplifiers or bullhorns — chanting to pass along what's being said from one group at the general assembly to another.
"We have people speak, everyone votes on it and we come to an agreement. WP: ‘Occupy Colleges’ movement urges students to walk out of class - Campus Overload. College Sympathizers Of Occupy Wall Street Walk Out Of Class In Support. Earlier today, students from at least 100 college campuses around the country walked out of class in a show of solidarity and support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
While the Occupy Wall Street movement has yet to present a coherent agenda or message, the college students who marched today in support of it were clear about their concerns. They banded together to make their voices heard, many citing the rising amount of student loan debt and the increasing cost of college, in addition to a dearth of decent jobs for recent graduates. "With budget cuts and tuition increases, students' voices are demanding to be heard," said Conor Tomás Reed, 30, a participant in today's walkout. Reed teaches at the City University of New York and is also a student at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. "It's a collective roar, and students are beyond disgusted and fed up. "It's a fever. The collective anxiety has yielded collective action. Occupy Wall Street March, College Walk Out Planned As ‘Anonymous’ Releases Threat Against NYSE.
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Sign Up NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The “Occupy Wall Street” rally gained thousands of new supporters as New York City became protest city on Wednesday when the group marched to City Hall. The protests, however, were not without incident. The NYPD said that there were about a dozen arrests Wednesday night. Thousands of students prepare to 'Occupy' colleges. LOS ANGELES (RNN) - College students across the country are preparing for Thursday's national day of protests in unity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.
As of Wednesday evening, 90 colleges were confirmed for Occupy College's "National Student Solidarity Protest," according to the group's website. Natalia Abrams, a spokeswoman and facilitator for the group, expects the number to surpass 100. This will be the second protest of the fledgling group, which sponsored a walk-out on college campuses Oct. 5. Thursday's protests are planned for 4:30 p.m. ET. Occupy Colleges Walkout @ Santa Monica College. College Students Occupy Wall Street Protest. Ariana Basco Speeks To Students At SUNY New Paltz Walkout On 10/5/11. SUNY New Paltz Walkout - 10/5/11. What Students Are Saying: SUNY New Paltz Walkout 10/5/11.
Seattle College Students Plan Walkout At Noon Today In Show Of Support For Occupy Wall St Protest. Seattle Student Walkout 10/12/11. OCCUPY at Texas State University. Occupy Texas State Part 1. Occupy TXST - 10/13/11 - Solidarity March (Raw unedited footage) Student Walkout at Hartford State House. San diego city college march. Occupyamherst. Welcome to Occupy Amherst!
In the fall we greatly enjoyed attending this series at Hampshire College – a very interesting series of panel discussions on Occupy. These were a part of the course “Occupy Wall Street: History, Theory, Practice” led by Professor Margaret Cerullo and Professor Michele Hardesty. The panel discussions with activists and scholars will take place in the West Lecture Hall of Franklin Patterson Hall and are open to the public. These panels will begin at 4pm SHARP.
For the duration of the series, Occupy Amherst attended these events and held its weekly meetings at their conclusion, inviting any students, panelists, and professors present to join in. There are no plans at present to continue the monthly third-Sunday gatherings which were held last year. Public Speak-out on How Debt is Affecting You Friday, October 5, 2012 5-7pm Amherst Common Amherst, MA We are still here! This public speak out is not a protest. Occupy Amherst 10/05/11 - first take. OccupyColleges Reverand Cornel West. Cornel West. 99 Percent Mocked by Wharton Business Students. Occupy ISU. OCCUPY ISU. Occupy Illinois State University. Occupy Cal 11/9/11 stop being students stop being stupid? Tune In, Walk Out : Occupy Colleges. Group Endorses Walk Out in Economics 10. A small group of Harvard students and employees staged an “Occupy Speakout” at noon on Tuesday to express their solidarity with the “National Day of Action.” The group also sought to raise awareness of events they have planned for today, including a walkout of the popular Economics 10 introductory course and a March in Boston later in the day.
“Mic Check! We are the 99 percent across the country!” The group chanted. The seven Mic Check participants drew attention to several initiatives taking place today, calling on students to join a campus-wide walkout Wednesday. “I urge all students to walk out of Ec 10, [because it] represents the ideology that brought about our current economic situation,” shouted organizer Gabriel H. Rachel J. “I think a more diverse viewpoint needs to be raised,” Sandalow-Ash said. But some students disagree with the characterization of the class.
However, Randi B. EC 10 professor N. This article has been revised to reflect the following corrections: An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw. The following letter was sent to Greg Mankiw by the organizers of today’s Economics 10 walkout.
Wednesday November 2, 2011 Dear Professor Mankiw— Today, we are walking out of your class, Economics 10, in order to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course. We are deeply concerned about the way that this bias affects students, the University, and our greater society. As Harvard undergraduates, we enrolled in Economics 10 hoping to gain a broad and introductory foundation of economic theory that would assist us in our various intellectual pursuits and diverse disciplines, which range from Economics, to Government, to Environmental Sciences and Public Policy, and beyond.
A legitimate academic study of economics must include a critical discussion of both the benefits and flaws of different economic simplifying models. Harvard graduates play major roles in the financial institutions and in shaping public policy around the world. Sincerely, The Harvard Crimson [video]Ec10 Walkout. GREG MANKIW: OWS comes to Ec 10. Greg Mankiw's Blog Random Observations for Students of Economics Wednesday, November 02, 2011.
CNN_money: O.W.S. plans walk-out of Harvard econ. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- An Occupy Wall Street group at Harvard University staged a walk-out Wednesday afternoon of the introductory economics class of Greg Mankiw, a former Bush administration economic advisor now working with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Mankiw is the main professor in the Economics 10 class that has about 750 students. Jose DelReal, a reporter with The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, said about 60 students participated in the walk-out. Mankiw told CNNMoney Wednesday morning that the class is relatively apolitical, and that guest lecturers have included Larry Summers, who was a top economic advisor for both Presidents Obama and Clinton. "When I enter a classroom, I try to leave my politics at a door," Mankiw said.
"The class is very conventional economics. An open letter to Mankiw posted online by protest leaders explained that the walk-out was being done "to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course. " Alternet: Harvard Economics Student Stage Walk-Out. Occupy Harvard? Students walk out on Greg Mankiw economics class. Tune In, Walk Out. “Money for jobs and education, not for banks and corporations!”
Chanted students from colleges around the Boston area this past Wednesday in a citywide walkout and protest affiliated with Occupy Boston. In recent years, state and national governments have cut funding for public higher education. As a result, schools have increased tuition and fees and decreased financial aid, making college education inaccessible to many low-income students. These rising prices have contributed to mounting American student debt, which now exceeds a trillion dollars and is larger than total US credit card debt. These impediments to education are part of a broken economic system in which the wealthiest one percent profit off the labor of the 99 percent. This is the context in which we helped organize the student walkout from Professor Mankiw’s Economics 10.
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Did the principles they learned in their alma mater's most popular class cause America’s financial crisis and growing wealth gap? That's the view of a group of approximately 70 students who walked out of professor N. Gregory Mankiw's Economics 10 class this week in solidarity with the Occupy protests happening coast-to-coast. The students say the conservative slant of the economic theories taught by the prominent professor are driving policies that create inequality. According to their open letter to Mankiw—who advised President George W. Without any "critical discussion of both the benefits and flaws" of alternative economic theories, the students say, it's "difficult for subsequent economics courses to teach effectively" since coeds who take the class are familiar with "only one heavily skewed perspective. " Liveblogging the #OccupyWallStreet National Student Walkout.
As I mentioned on Monday, the idea of a national student walkout in concert with the Occupy Wall Street movement has been gaining traction recently. Late last night a list of 75 campuses that have expressed plans to participate was posted on the Occupy Colleges Facebook page, and though not all of these walkouts may come together, experience shows that this sort of national action tends to bring campuses out of the woodwork who haven’t publicly stated their plans in advance.
(And in fact, looking again at the list, I know there are some colleges planning walkouts who aren’t yet listed there.) It remains to be seen how big today’s action is going to be — I don’t think anyone can predict that at this point — but a few things are worth bearing in mind as the day unfolds: First, it’s October. Early October. Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) sur Twitter. C-spanvideo Matthew Siegel.
Boston: students protest spiraling education costs. BOSTON—Dozens of Northeastern University students joined a nationwide student walk-out Wednesday to support the Occupy Wall Street movements against what they say is corporate control of government and spiraling education costs. About 300 members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association also joined the rally for the first time, with an official saying the move would add resources and lend credibility to the cause. About 200 drum-playing and chanting students met on campus before joining the Occupy Wall Street movements that have spread to cities around the country, including Boston.
Many went to Dewey Square to join the Occupy Boston protest, where members of one of the largest unions also gathered. "We're letting inequality build in this country and there's not enough resistance," said senior international affairs major Andrea Gordillo, of Sarasota, Fla. One person held a sign that said, "It's We the People, not We the Corporations. " "I'm pushing for a change," Hannon said. BostonHerald: Occupy movement triggers college walk-out push. Inspired by Wall Street protests, Occupy Colleges sparks campus walkouts nationwide. In a matter of 48 hours, college campuses across the country organized a nation-wide walkout to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests that are spreading to several other states over the next week. Occupy Colleges, the student-led version of the ongoing New York City-based protests, carried with it a similar theme of economic justice and an end to corporate influence in politics, but added a call for improving equality within higher education.
In Texas, a handful of college campuses joined the movement including The University of Texas, Texas State University and Austin Community College; 75 universities and colleges across the nation are listed as having executed mid-day walkouts. At UT-Austin, roughly 50 students holding signs and chanting slogans mimicked protests of rising unemployment and corporate welfare in other cities like Boston and Chicago. But the students also focused on higher education issues, like rising tuition costs, program cuts and staff layoffs. College Students Join Occupy Wall Street Protests. Students at more than 100 colleges across the country rallied Thursday to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Demonstrators, both on and off campus, are voicing increasing frustration with the high cost of college, mounting student debt loads and the lousy job market for recent graduates. Copyright © 2011 NPR. [radio]Media Player. NewYorkNews: NYC Students Walk Out to Support Occupy Wall Street and Labor March. Fastweb: Occupy Colleges ~Students Walk Out of College Classes in Protest. Bright Futura: College Students Walk Out: To Support Occupy Wall St. The Temple: Walkout, teach-in highlight student interest in Occupy. CSU students walk out to support Occupy protests. The Ithacan: Campus unites in ‘occupy’ protest of economic disparities. The Ithacan: Students to occupy IC. Photos of Colleges Walking Out : Occupy Colleges. KSU: Occupy Colleges: Studenten steunen Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Colleges protest draws 143 colleges today but none yet listed in Alabama. Demonstrators with "Occupy Boston" march toward the police station where fellow demonstrators were brought after police arrested people sleeping in an expansion of the Occupy Boston tent village in Boston, in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011.