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Posted: 10 February 2020 in UncategorizedTags: capitalism, cartoon, China, climate crisis, El Salvador, free speech, health, immigrants, military, socialism, Trump, virus
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 11 August 2019 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, free speech, GOP, guns, NLRB, Trump, unions, United States, violence, white nationalism
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 17 November 2015 in UncategorizedTags: academy, banks, Ben Carson, cartoon, election, free speech, Jeb Bush, minimum wage, politics, protest, racism, Republicans, students, TBTF, United States
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 14 November 2015 in UncategorizedTags: academy, cartoon, corporations, dark money, faculty, free speech, Marco Rubio, politics, racism, Republicans, student debt
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 5 February 2015 in UncategorizedTags: banks, cartoon, corporations, debt, Euro, Europe, free speech, Greece, Koch brothers, money, offshoring, patriotism, politics, taxes, United States
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Protest of the day
Posted: 2 October 2014 in UncategorizedTags: academy, free speech, protest, students
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Berkeley Free Speech movement.
Berkeley in the Sixties, directed by Mark Kitchell, is still one of the best documentaries about the movement.
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 25 August 2014 in UncategorizedTags: apathy, birth control, cartoon, crises, debt, Ferguson, free speech, housing, humanitarian, inequality, police, racism, violence
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 23 April 2014 in UncategorizedTags: affirmative action, cartoon, Claren Thomas, free speech, inequality, middle-class, money, politics, rich, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, United States
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Economist of the day
Posted: 17 November 2011 in UncategorizedTags: academy, Berkeley, economists, free speech, protests
Here’s a link to a clip of the Mario Savio speech, on 2 December 1964, to which Reich refers.
We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn’t he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received — from a well-meaning liberal — was the following: He said, “Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors?” That’s the answer! Now, I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I’ll tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we’re the raw material! But we’re a bunch of raw material[s] that don’t mean to have any process upon us, don’t mean to be made into any product, don’t mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We’re human beings!
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 16 November 2011 in UncategorizedTags: banks, cartoon, free speech, law, Occupy Wall Street
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