Ralph Nader, the former Green Party and Independent presidential candidate writes in the Register Citizen concerning higher education spending cuts in California and how students should feel about them.
… Read more ...Students of California, arise, you have nothing to lose but a crushing debt!
The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial hour during a recession, has a chokehold on California’s public universities.
by Darrell Castle
Constitution Party National Committee Vice-Chairman
What do the people rioting in the Middle East and the people protesting reductions in public-sector union bargaining rights have in common?
Not much, but the driving force behind each of them is similar, and that driving force is economic hardship.
What we are likely seeing is the crumbling of a world economic order that has existed for decades if not for centuries.… Read more ...
by Omar Mohamad, Socialist Party of South Central Wisconsin and Billy Wharton, co-chair Socialist Party USA:
The mass protests led by public employees unions in Madison, Wisconsin have been presented by some mainstream commentators as a labor’s last stand. They are not. They are a spark, a spark with the potential to create a new protest movement capable of revitalizing our unions, radicalizing student organizing and creating a space for democratic socialist politics.… Read more ...
WASHINGTON – According to The Hill, House Republicans have just announced that they will seek appropriations for the rest of 2011 that are $32 billion below current spending levels.
LP Chair Mark Hinkle commented, “The Tea Party supporters have been betrayed. These cuts are so small, you need a microscope to find them.”
Hinkle continued, “The Congressional Budget Office just told us that federal spending was expected to be about $3.7 trillion this year.… Read more ...