The New Student Activism - NYTimes.com
The Kids Are Alright.
They are hip to the Occupy Movement, Wall St. national embezzlement, and a sense of what Arab Spring populism can bring to pass.
The next generation of college students are progressive, nuanced, and not apathetic.
"...People in positions of power, I think they believe nothing is going to happen,” she said. “We’re just going to yell and scream and hold up signs and nothing’s going to change. But you’ve got an entire generation of people that realize something is wrong and something has to change because the system is wrong. There’s more of us than there are of them.”
"...“I’m not sure it would’ve happened if Occupy Wall Street wouldn’t have started,” said Marina Keegan, of the Morgan Stanley protest at Yale, where she is a senior. “Definitely people are starting to think more critically about their choices after graduation and how they affect not just themselves, but the world.”
I encourage you to read the whole story and get a glimpse of where the future and next generation will take us.
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ReplyDeleteI really don't know what to say about student activism in the 21st. Century except to say that as usual it comes down to personal decisions.
It is evident that the Occupy Wall Street protests were/are driven by something. I guess it is an objection to the greed of Wall Street and how that effects the average Joe on the street.
Students specifically should have seen the writing on the wall from a Time Magazine article in the 1980's. It described how Pres. Ronald Reagan was re-vamping the student loan program and that, of course, students were going to end up owing more money.
Also, intelligence agencies infiltrate and direct protest movements to ensure that the status quo does not change or even that the status quo changes in the direction the particular agency or agencies wants. This must be articulated by a large newspaper like The New York Times but unsurprisingly it is not mentioned.
If the issue is the one per cent versus the ninety-nine per cent, then this intelligence issue must be loudly articulated to the masses.
Also, how are these one percent people getting such an enormous slice of the pie? (I think it is fiat currency.) And then how is this discrepancy peacefully addressed.
But no matter how hard the powers that be come down on the protesters, it is heartening to see that the protesters are still protesting. People know they are born free with rights given only by our creator. Nothing has ever taken away those rights in the past over the long term and nothing ever will. Now is a determinate time for personal decisions.
What a fantastic site. Truly professionally organized and such pertinent content. Kudos to Colby Allerton.
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