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Twelve students at the University of Virginia on Saturday began a hunger strike for a living wage policy for university employees. They’ve taken this step after having exhausted just about every other possible approach over a period of 14 years. I was part of the campaign way back when it started. I can support the assertion made by hunger-striking student A.J. Chandra on Saturday, who said,
“We have not spent 14 years building up the case for a living wage.
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Who makes up the Occupy movement in Virginia?
What do they want?
Why are they doing it?
Expect some surprises when “Occupy” activists from our region share their answers.
Guests:
Michael Feikema, M.A. Activist with Occupy Harrisonburg. Former faculty member in the Department of History and Religion at Mount Marty College of Yankton, SD.
David Swanson, M.A. – Activist with Occupy Charlottesville. Author of The Military Industrial Complex at 50 [Swanson, 2012].
SOURCE:
Audio: Michael Feikema and David Swanson on OCCUPY, from WMRA — NPR in Harrisonburg, VA Read More »
Imagine that your son, your darling little boy, was killed during the past eight years in a war that served purely to kill a whole lot of Iraqis and enrich a small number of billionaires, while causing horrible environmental damage, stripping away our civil liberties, and poisoning foreign relations elsewhere. And imagine that, instead of avoiding this reality or lying about it, you confronted it. Further, imagine that you became so famous confronting it, that everybody wanted to be
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This reply to Hedges and defense of violence completely fails to persuade.
The primary argument seems to be that if you are not in Oakland and familiar with every detail you shalt not offer your advice. But knowing whether the person who smashed a window was wearing a mask or not hardly eliminates the possibility of usefully commenting on whether it helped or hurt to smash that window. The defense article describes violent clashes with police and concludes “No one can agree on
Defense of "Anarchism" in Oakland Occupy or Anywhere Unconvincing Read More »
A poll published on Wednesday at the Washington Post finds that a majority of even “liberal Democrats” approves of Obama killing US citizens. Of course, this would almost certainly be different if Obama were a Republican.
What if an organization with money but no partisanship (are there some?) were to commission a poll from a pollster willing to face a firestorm of attacks from the political parties (are there any such pollsters?), a poll that would ask people all their
Do We Approve of Murder Based on Political Party? Pollsters Don't Want You to Know. Read More »
U.S. Pursues War, Chaos in Middle East and North Africa
“If there is a substantial military strike on Iran, it is going to create mayhem in the region,” said Dr. Vijay Preshad, director of International Studies at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut. “And that is precisely what the Gulf Arabs and the United States would like to see. The last thing they want is a proper Arab Spring germinate into new, democratic regimes in North Africa and Est Asia.”
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1. A war on Iran could kill us all. President Obama said in the State of the Union: “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible . . . if Iran changes course.” So, unless Iran, which the Secretary of Defense says is not developing a nuclear weapon, ceases developing a nuclear weapon, we’re going to war.
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