i am having such a good time in san diego it is ridiculous. EVERYONE i swear i have ever known since i was 17 was at the che cafe tonight. enjoy this video of snuffy.
although people believe walk-outs and occupations are very backwards ways of dealing with the current fee situation, i think what we need to keep in mind is that our education system is a system that is built on capitalist foundations and bureaucratic nature. walk-outs and occupations are a sense of reclaiming our education and wanting our needs to be met. obviously people fucking care about their education if they are fucking paying for it, but just staying in class and dealing with the current situation does not make any direct effects. obviously other tactics such as letter writing, and going to sacramento have not worked, thus forms of civil disobedience are neccesary.
some believe this is a very bourgeois cause and form of protesting, because it consists of the middle class and higher education. but what it really comes down to is how the california school system (CSU & UCs) WAS based on open universities. now, fees are rapidly increasing, and what was once an institution that allowed accessibility is slowly becoming affordable for only the rich, and quickly heading towards a privatized nature. the california educational system was made to rival those of the rich private ivy league universities on the east coast. it was based on accessibility and egalitarianism but now our credibility is diminishing as we deal with furlough days, and lack of accessibility to campus resources and professors.
there is anguish amongst faculty and students and i just don’t understand how people don’t fucking get it??? why is it that one of the richest countries would fucking cut EDUCATION of all things first? it makes absolutely no sense, point blank. the public education system is based on free education for free people, yet it has slowly turned into an oppressive state. shall we just watch and see how prison populations will rise as the credibility of public education declines.
OR
shall we educate, organize, and realize we very much so have power in numbers, and we can demand our education to be what it once was, if not better.
solidarity with the UC system!
"Every night when the sun went down in the town where we lived
The empty streets were lit up by reflected light from a distant sun
Bouncing off a glowing ball of rock and we just laid on the roof
And watched the moon, the moon, the blue light of the moon
We didn’t talk and silently we both felt powerful
And, like the moon, my chest was full because we both knew
We’re just floating in space over molten rock
And we felt safe and we discovered that our skin is soft
There’s nothing left except certain death
And that was comforting at night out under the moon"
Phil Elvrum
"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."
Edgar Watson Howe
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summer road trip with da boys
