We're On the Move Again!
While March 4th was successful in mobilizing thousands of students, workers, and faculty across the state, WE MUST CONTINUE our actions.
The time has come to broaden our struggle and ask ourselves a very basic question: WHY IS THERE NO MONEY FOR SCHOOLS?Since 2001, $1 TRILLION has been spent on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. After almost a decade of combat, THOUSANDS of dead American soldiers and more than HALF A MILLION CIVILIANS killed as "collateral damage," both Afghanistan and Iraq continue to be unstable puppet governments disguised as democracies.
All the while, the richest corporations in the world have profited untold billions, while our educational system has fallen through the cracks.
For 2011 alone, Obama has proposed a record $738 BILLION in MILITARY SPENDING, while EDUCATION gets a measly $122 BILLION. There is something very wrong when our government would rather spend our money making SMARTER BOMBS, but DUMBER STUDENTS!
We CANNOT struggle against the cutbacks to education without struggling against the WARS that have COST US SO MUCH!
JOIN US AS WE RALLY, MARCH, AND EDUCATE!
When: March 18, 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Where: Gather at PCC Mirror Pools, March to Recruitment Center Across
from PCC.
Hey there,
ReplyDeleteMy name's Cruz and I wanted to go to the meeting today. Unfortunately I was unable to make it since I'm usually busy on Tuesdays, especially around that time. I think it's dope that you are connecting the war with the struggle of education and I also think it's cool there was an action on March 4th. The main reason I wanted to go to the meeting today was to advocate for militant nonviolent direct action, not just for the upcoming action on Thursday but in the near future as well.
The action on March 4th was cool and the upcoming one on Thursday sounds cool too but I don't really see any momentum growing or movement coming about because of the way these actions are framed. Imagine an action, be it in relation to the war or education, that almost completely disrupted the college and nearby area in a confrontational nonviolent way. Imagine people met up at the mirror pools, marched through several buildings calling for a walkout/strike while pulling fire alarms to disrupt normality and then preceding to occupy a hall or building? Or imagine instead of an occupation people tried to rally others to take on Colorado and march to Old Town?
I'm not sure who I'm addressing since I don't know who moderates these groups but if there is anyone reading this that would be interested at all in these types of actions feel free to message this Facebook or e-mail windchimehouse@gmail.com. I'd also be more than down to meet face to face and talk about these things. I'm at PCC all day Monday and Wednesday and around late afternoon-evening time of Thursday.
I will try and be around for some of the Thursday action.
Take care,
Cruz from Windchime Collective