By Annelise Grube-Cavers “There won’t be a prolonged strike,” said (Chris) Mota. “From my experience, that has never been an issue at Concordia. When students do participate in a strike, it’s usually a one-day strike, in solidarity; I’ve been here for 18 years and I’ve never seen a prolonged student strike.” The Link, 8 November…
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Student Debt: Students Demand Change from Oregon Board of Higher Education
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By Eric Coker Our institutions of higher education are now havens for private banks to extract wealth from the 99%. Student debt has skyrocketed to over a trillion dollars. More and more young adults cannot afford to pay back their student loans. The average Oregon University System student leaves school with roughly $24,000 in student…
Rekia, Trayvon and the Colors of Violence from Chicago to Sanford
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This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in the Occupied Chicago Tribune. By Chris Geovanis The week that Trayvon Martin’s killing blew up as a national story, another Black person died of her skin color on the west side of Chicago. 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was shot in the head Wednesday,…
Occupy Trimet: Save Public Transit
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by K. Kendall TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane is directing TriMet as a corporation and not as a public service, according to James, an Occupier whose wife, daughter, and granddaughter have all been TriMet drivers. “He’s giving the fare inspectors quotas,” James says with outrage. “They have to give four citations an hour from now on,…
Hit the Streets to “Tomando Las Calles” (Taking the Streets), PCASC’s Annual Art Show
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by Pete Shaw Portland Central America Solidarity Committee’s (PCASC) second annual art show debuts this Friday, April 6. Like last year’s Criminales Todos (We Are All Criminals), which assembled a worldwide palette of artists, Tomando Las Calles (Taking The Streets) uses multiple media to challenge the labels “criminal” and “illegal”, as well as demanding a…
50,000 March in Support of Indigenous Culture in Southern France
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by Teleri Williams On a hot spring day, the last day of March, up to 50,000 people both young and old, danced and sang their way through Toulouse to the music of traditional instruments like the cabra or cornemuse, bagpipes made from goat skins, pipes, and drums. They had come from towns in southern France,…
Anti-Police Brutality Protesters Wage Constitutional Battle
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By Occupier Staff The legal battle continues for three Occupy Portland activists arrested at a February 6 Occupy Oakland Solidarity and Anti-Police Brutality March. Emmalyn Garrett, Taylor Sharpe and Nefi Bravo are seeking evidence and witnesses to aid them in the fight to uphold their constitutional rights. The trio have joined the mass defense for…
Video: Frashour Has Got To Go
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Judith Butler: Boycott Politics and Global Responsibility
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This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in The Boston Occupier. by Doug Enaa Greene Judith Butler, a professor of Rhetoric and Comparative literature at UC Berkeley discusses the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in solidarity with the Palestinian community against Israeli occupation, apartheid, and colonialism, as well as…
200,000 Students in Montreal Take to the Streets, Most Media Silent
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By Annelise Grube-Cavers MONTREAL — There are ominous changes underway in governmental policy internationally which have resulted in tax cuts for corporations at the expense of essential public services. In Quebec, one of the focal points of the discussion surrounding the implication of austerity is the future of higher education, which has historically been protected…
