(Source: tragedyseries)
The videos posted by Occupy Princeton are so gratifying, particularly as all those in non-finance tracks are often met with skepticism and judgment when interacting with career services. I can’t count the number of times that the group has sent both my friends and me into crisis mode falsely thinking that there was really nothing in the “real world” suited for us.
We, Columbia and Barnard faculty, write in solidarity with and in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement now underway in our city and elsewhere. Many observers claim that the movement has no specific goals; this is not our understanding. The movement aims to bring attention to the various forms of inequality – economic,political, and social – that characterize our times, that block opportunities for the young and strangle the hopes for better futures for the majority while generating vast profits for a very few. The demonstrators are demanding substantive change that redresses the many inequitable features of our society, which have been exacerbated by the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession. Among these are: the lack of accountability on the partof the bankers and Wall Street firms that drove the economy to disaster; rising economic inequality in the United States; the intimate relationship between corporate power and government at all levels, which has made genuine change impossible; the need for dramatic action to provide employment for the jobless; the protection of programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in part by requiring the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes;the disastrous effects of the costly wars that the United States has been conducting overseas since 2001. Only by identifying the complex interconnections between repressive economic, social and political regimes can social and economic justice prevail in this country and around the globe. It is this identification that we applaud, and we call on all members of the Columbia community to lend their support to this peaceful and potentially transformative movement.
ART THOUGHTZ: To Catch A Millennial (Live at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 9-07-11)
hennessyyoungman:“I WISH I COULD GIVE YOU THIS FEELING: I’M PLANKING ON A MILLION.”
NEW ART THOUGHTZ
Oh man, Art Thoughtz live! On millenials! A writeup:
Hennessy Youngman is a fictional character created by Philadelphia artist Jayson Musson that became an overnight sensation among art people. Youngman is a sort of a smart–ass social critic, like George Carlin and Paul Mooney rolled into one…. Our hero delivered jokes around one of this year’s common topics of conversation — “Millennials: The Generation Born between 1980 and the Early 1990s.”
help me!
keep eating carrots, will probably turn orange.
