Here’s a nice article about student debt.
http://occupycolleges.org/2011/10/26/occupy-student-debt/
“Starting November 2, schools across the nation will participate in teach-ins about Occupy Wall Street in hopes of continuing and extending the dialogue that was started by the Occupy Movement.”
http://occupycolleges.org/2011/10/27/solidarity-teach-ins-at-a-college-near-you/
Sam Stamport
It is hard to believe that in the current age of technology and monetary; famine of such extreme nature would even exist.Is this famine the product of bad government or just mother nature in terms of global warming as many have accredited it to? There are numerous horrible stories of mothers who have seen death snatch their children away from them as they laid in their arms. “It’s not a heartless mother leaving a child behind, just one who wants to survive.” On a road between the countries of Kenya and Somalia lies the bodies of children who have succumbed to the famine and the hardships of making the journey from their famine stricken country to Kenya.
How are the prominent nations like the United States helping to alleviate this issue, which has being deemed one of the worst crisis in recent history? It’s being documented that International donors have provided more than a billion dollars in funds to ease this famine, but the United Nations claims there is the need for a billion more.
I believe this is an issue of global irresponsibility of which you and I are a part of. So what are we doing to bring this change and make sure crisis like this are prevented?
http://www.globalissues.org/article/796/east-africa-food-crisis
– MILLICENT AFEAME
President Obama on Wednesday is launching a new plan to lower the cost of paying back student loans for millions of borrowers.
The plan, is to be implemented by executive authority alone, allows some 1.6 million students to cap their loan payments at 10 percent of their discretionary income starting in 2012. It also forgives the balance of student loans after 20 years of payments. Current law allows students to limit loan payments to 15 percent of income, forgiving debt after 25 years of payments, though few students are aware of this option.
http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-student-loan-debt-relief-plan-too-good-234242818.html
-Alexandria Trevino
Oakland protesters hold late-night march after vet injured.
It is sad when things like this happen in my opinion Police Forces should not be using this much force against innocent Protesters. The Oakland police took this a little to far and they are trying to get out of it b saying he came at them first. Also when fellow protesters where helping the injured vet Police officers shoot another canister of tear gas at the exact area they were at.
Juan Velazquez
Cyber-bullying is when someone is using the internet and other related technologies to intentionaly and repeatedly hurt someone and their reputation in a hostile manner. This can be done by either posting messages or pictures of the individual online, or send a text on a phone to try to embarrass somebody. Cyber-bullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the sender, but it may also include threats, sexual remarks, pejorative labels (i.e., hate speech), ganging up on victims by making them the subject of ridicule in forums, and posting false statements as fact aimed at humiliation.Kids report being mean to each other online beginning as young as 2nd grade. According to research, boys initiate mean online activity earlier than girls do. However, by middle school, girls are more likely to engage in cyber-bullying than boys do.Whether the bully is male or female, their purpose is to intentionally embarrass others, harass, intimidate, or make threats online to one another. This bullying occurs via email, text messaging, posts to blogs, and Web sites.
Its important that we take a stand and put an end to cyber-bullying. Start a campaign and to stop cyber bullying and also educate young people about the harmful effects of cyber-bullying so that they don’t get involved in that type of hostile environment.
Mitt Romney has critized Rick Perry about being soft on Illegal Immigration in almost all debates that come accross the nation. Rick Perry supports the bill he passed in Texas as governor, The Texas Dream Act, which give in-state tuition to an illegal child who graduated from a Texas High School and is working on legal status. Mitt Romney went hard on Perry, but I think Perry shut him up when he said why are you complaining if you hire Illegals to do your garden work at you own house. I think Perry knows that these students who are trying to learn and be part of this nation will also help the falling economy.
Protesters involved with Occuppy Dallas arrested.
Hinkley, Bradley J. youtube. 24 10 2011. 24 10 2011 .
Dominique Berry
http://news.yahoo.com/gadhafis-heirs-dead-dictators-sons-speak-085544817.html
-Francisco Gonzalez
(CNN) — If the recent CNN/Western Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas was any indication, the coming months on the campaign trail are likely to be nasty between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
After a shouting match between the two at the debate, Romney — the former governor of Massachusetts — responded, “Rick, again, Rick, again, I’m speaking. … This has been a tough couple of debates for Rick, and I understand that. And so you’re going to get testy.”
While elections often bring out barbs and negative attacks, the animosity is real, observers say.
“Oh, they don’t get along,” said John Avlon, a CNN contributor, author and expert on independent voters. “They don’t like each other.”
Candidates trade barbs in feisty debate
Decoding body language at GOP debate “I mean, it (the debate dust-up) was amazing,” he said. “You look at Rick Perry’s eyes. I mean, this could have gotten physical if they were in high school.” He added that while they have real philosophical differences, this time showed it was “personal animosity.”
Read more about the debate
That point was backed up by Ed Rollins — a longtime GOP strategist and former campaign manager to Republican candidate Michele Bachmann — who said point-blank, “They don’t get along” and predicted that this is going to be a “down and nasty race.”
So is it just Perry’s personality, or is there an anger management issue?
“He’s combative, and people have asked me, ‘Is Rick Perry mean?’ and I guess the question is, which Rick Perry?” said Ken Herman, a columnist with the Austin American-Statesman in the Texas capital. “The Rick Perry I’ve known professionally and casually for 25 years? I wouldn’t say he’s mean.”
Herman added that Perry, 61, is just tough, aggressive and a “cold-blooded politician.”
William Murchison admitted in an article for the conservative magazine American Spectator that his friend’s often “combative” style “may not prove as right for the moment as a style that says, calm down, I can fix this, give me a chance.”
Read more about Perry
Perhaps it’s that toughness, though, that has kept Perry in office for so long.
Perry holds the title as the nation’s longest-serving governor and boasts that he’s never lost an election since he first ran for the Texas House as a Democrat in 1984. He assumed his role as governor in 2000, when then-Gov. George W. Bush resigned to run for the White House.
Rick Perry gets ready to announce his presidential bid at the RedState Gathering of conservative bloggers on August 13. Romney, meanwhile, has often been described as cool and calm — almost robotic — and takes a business approach to governing and rarely shows his anger, political observers say.
The former governor of the solidly blue state of Massachusetts has a history of crossing party lines to get legislation passed — including the state’s universal health care plan. Several of his rivals for the Republican Party nomination have criticized the plan, which they call Romneycare, for making all state residents get health care insurance through subsidies or mandates.
The dislike between Perry and Romney, though, comes down to their roots, Rollins said.
Perry was born and raised in Paint Creek, a small town in the western part of Texas, and is the son of a tenant farmer. He graduated from Texas A&M University and later joined the Air Force, where he flew C-130 aircraft. He later returned to Paint Creek to help run his parents’ farm.
“He had nothing. He just scraped his entire life to get to where he was,” Rollins said.
Perry is also deemed somewhat of a guys’ guy, with a history of cowboy-like tendencies. In August 2010, he shot and killed a coyote while jogging with his dog in Austin. Perry said he often carries a pistol on the trails because of snakes and other wildlife.
Mitt Romney arrives for a business roundtable to discuss the economy during an August 10 campaign stop in Pella, Iowa.Rollins said that perhaps Perry has anger for his fellow Republican because he “sees a guy like Romney who sort of had everything handed to him,” referring to the fact that Romney, 64, is the son of George Romney, the former governor of Michigan who was once president of American Motors.
Romney took a much different path than Perry. Born in Detroit, he became a Mormon missionary and later graduated from Brigham Young University in 1971. Afterward, he received dual degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He later founded Bain Capital, a private equity firm, oversaw the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and successfully ran for governor.
Read more about Romney
He is worth an estimated $190 million to $250 million, according to 2011 documents released by his campaign. Perry, though, is also wealthy and has a proven track record of raising millions of dollars in campaign cash
(-Graciela Galicia)
OK you are 18 and stupid hang out with the wrong friends, then you find out that they sell drugs. Now you are scared of them because the general idea of drug dealers. Then you find out that they are not so scary so you hang out with them again. Time go’s by then you get the idea the money is worth the risk. so you sell for a little while, but you get busted almost right away. Spend your time in jail spend money for court and so on with all the issues that follow, then you were scared straight now. you look for a job and weeks go by months go by still no job you have nothing. Your friends that you live with still sell drugs and have plenty of money so you are once again are selling drugs not because you just are lazy or greedy just you need money to live. There is no bulls#@$ that helps X-cons to get food or a house until you get a job, that crap is not real.
Don’t forget only black people are drug dealers right, (Every picture i looked up it was mostly black people so I added that to this as well, oh and the government invented crack.) Hey you need a self esteem boost.
So it’s OK to put someone in jail to tell them that what they did was wrong. Then to allow employers to not hire them because they went to jail and was punished, and was released because they were now were determined to be a normal, safe, and happy member of society. The only way out of jail by the way. Then when they can’t get a job you still expected to not commit any kind of crime that you did before it earned a lot of money in a little amount of time. Is that OK you messed up once and now when you try again you can’t. Then you hate people who have been to jail, unless you knew them before then they only went because they messed up once but it’s OK they will not do it again jail has changed them, anyone else jail has no effect on right.
By: Edward Zhu (Taylor) it’s up late i had no internet, sorry
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