Comments on: Students Join ‘Occupy’ Protests in Seattle, Around the Country

By: The Study Break: A Weekly List of Our Favorite Distractions | TalkNerdy2Me

The Study Break: A Weekly List of Our Favorite Distractions | TalkNerdy2Me — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:02:31 +0000

[...] • Have you attended an Occupy protest? Many colleges all over the US have been holding these protests. Read about a few of them at Next Gen Journal. [...]

By: ChetMan

ChetMan — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:43:00 +0000

‘“I’m fed up because in a year I’m going to be entering the job market and it’s dominated by corporations,” Barker said. “That’s not who I want to be working for.”’
Umm… isn’t it the corporations run and started by entrepreneurs who create jobs in the first place. We shouldn’t ever be dependent on the government to create jobs. My recommendation to barker is to start her own company when she graduates and see what the real world is like… or just put on a superhero costume and keep playing ‘let’s pretend’.

By: The Study Break: A Weekly List of Our Favorite Distractions | TalkNerdy2Me

The Study Break: A Weekly List of Our Favorite Distractions | TalkNerdy2Me — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:57:33 +0000

[...] been wondering what all this fuss is about the “Occupy” protests, this article over at Next Gen Journal is a [...]

By: Pamela Mills Ruzic

Pamela Mills Ruzic — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:09:00 +0000

As a soon-to-be graduate of the U of Washington/Seattle (Spring 1970), I joined w/fellow students of various colleges in the PacIfic Northwest along w/people of ALL AGES & DEMOGRAPHICS from across the US & Canada to protest the Viet Nam War and the unfair Corporate/US Gov’t policies which were directly in opposition to our Constitution, i.e. Ours being a contract whereby we were the government & not a body to be crushed by a government. The protest grew from a few hundred on our campus to thousands as we marched to the I-5 fwy.TV & newspapers that evening showed photos of a completely closed freeway- remember this was pre-Smart Phone/PC/internet.

By: andrea

andrea — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:05:00 +0000

HEY ALL YOU READERS!!!
I’m andrea marcos, and i was interviewed in this article, i just want to clarify some things, because i feel i was totally misquoted. Upon being asked something along the lines of ‘why do you think that the youth are important in this movement” I responded…”actually, I think it’s important that the whole community comes out and NOT just the youth! i think this language of ‘it’s the youth that is going to change things’ divides us. we need diversity and inclusivity within our movements, and that diversity includes age. We also NEED OUR ELDERS, we need story telling across differences and we need trust building. It’s not just the youth that can do this, it’s all people. there needs to be solidarity across differences.”feels crappy that i was quoted saying the opposite of this. practice solidarity everyday in life, regardless of age or other things that are social constructs used to divide us. thanksandrea