Showing posts with label protesters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protesters. Show all posts
Friday, June 29, 2018
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Capitol Protest by 8000 Today
California’s growing student led protests.
By Duane Campbell
Over 8000 students and their supporters rallied outside the California State Capitol In Sacramento on March 22 to demand adequate funding for education. Students brought buses of demonstrators from community colleges throughout central and northern California. This march ,organized primarily by community college groups and their allies, was the latest in a series of demonstrations responding to proposals to dramatically cut funding for education in California.
The March 22 rally followed a March 4 rally when 2000 faculty, students and their supporters rallied at the State Capitol while thousands rallied at campuses and cities around the state. There were more than 40 events across the state asking people to stand up for education. Faculty and students came to Sacramento from UC Davis, Santa Cruz, and Berkeley, as well as CSU Sacramento, Chico, and community colleges. Rallies and protests also occurred on other CSU, UC and community colleges across the state.
Photos are here:
Photos are here:
Capitol Monday. CDA signs and stickers were everywhere. We got lots of visibility and signatures.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Why reformers are losing the health care debate -- and how to win it back
Chris Kromm
We're now two weeks into the Town Hall Uprising that has rocked members of Congress coming home for their August recess. The signs and screeds have been uncannily similar: "Obamacare" will kill your grandma. Bureaucrats will choose your doctors. We're headed towards socialized medicine, a slippery slope towards communism in the USA.
But whether coming from a hot-headed protester or a former governor of Alaska, the rhetorical bombs share at least two things in common: One, they have little basis in reality. And two, they have little if anything to do with real health reform.
Health reform isn't being debated in the country's TV screens and town halls -- it's being swift-boated. And just like the infamous 2004 TV ads by deep-pocketed right-wing operatives had little to do with Sen. Kerry's military honor, the current assault reveals more than anything the ability of powerful interests to fan lingering resentments - especially in places like the South - to serve their bottom line.
read the entire piece.
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/08/why-reformers-are-losing-the-health-care-debate----and-how-to-seize-it-back.html
Chris Kromm
We're now two weeks into the Town Hall Uprising that has rocked members of Congress coming home for their August recess. The signs and screeds have been uncannily similar: "Obamacare" will kill your grandma. Bureaucrats will choose your doctors. We're headed towards socialized medicine, a slippery slope towards communism in the USA.
But whether coming from a hot-headed protester or a former governor of Alaska, the rhetorical bombs share at least two things in common: One, they have little basis in reality. And two, they have little if anything to do with real health reform.
Health reform isn't being debated in the country's TV screens and town halls -- it's being swift-boated. And just like the infamous 2004 TV ads by deep-pocketed right-wing operatives had little to do with Sen. Kerry's military honor, the current assault reveals more than anything the ability of powerful interests to fan lingering resentments - especially in places like the South - to serve their bottom line.
read the entire piece.
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/08/why-reformers-are-losing-the-health-care-debate----and-how-to-seize-it-back.html
Chris Kromm
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