During a tense two minutes Monday during which she apologized to thousands on the Quad for the recent arrest and pepper-spraying of peaceful protesters, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi struggled against tears when referencing Nov. 17, 1973.
“I was there, and I don’t want to forget that,” she said.
Many in the crowd likely were unsure of the date’s meaning.
Now, though, in an odd twist, the legacy of that day — when Katehi herself was a student activist in her native Greece — has opened a new line of criticism of the embattled chancellor.
In December 2010, Katehi took part on a panel of international experts that recommended Greece end a decades-old asylum law that effectively kept police off its campuses.
She and others felt the law was long abused by thugs. Others say it was later abolished in a crackdown against
It’s not easy finding “American made” anything these days, let alone made by union workers. We simply don’t manufacture anything any more. God help us all if the Chinese decide to cut us off. We’ll all be sitting in the dark, on the floor and bare-assed.
OccupySupply has had good luck finding really well made union made hats, socks, scarves, blankets and polar fleece items. But I thought I would put up the list of things we haven’t had much luck sourcing, in case anyone out there has a line on suppliers:
Gloves — The bane of my existence. As I told greenharper today, we’ve only been able to identify two union glove makers in the US: North Star Gloves and The Knoxville Glove Company. Both manufacture very sturdy and well-made work gloves, but they’re not really what we need to keep people warm. We finally went with a family owned glove making company to buy polypropylene self-wicking gloves (similar to the polypropylene base layer clothing we have been supplying to the occupations, our #1 most requested item). They’re designed for people who need to keep their hands warm and dry during activities, however, more than extreme cold protection. So we still need a heavy duty union made cold weather glove.
Boots — We have a dual problem with boots. There are many great USA bootmakers, and many of them have union facilities: Red Wing, Danner, Belleville, Matterhorn and Weinbrenner among others. There is a plentiful
With news yesterday that the 2009 failure to fund lawsuit would be going forward, Florida’s republican dominated legislature may be forced to consider determining just what adequate school funding is. Jacksonville Representative Mike Weinstein and Lakeland Senator Paul Dockery are trying to do just that. HB 001 (SB 242) proposes to allow
“the Office of Program Policy and Governmental Accountability (OPPAGA) to conduct a study to determine the minimum number of dollars needed to meet the constitutional requirement for adequate funding in Florida’s free public schools.”
Florida-Times Union reporter Matt Dixon sees the link as well:
The push to get an exact funding number comes at the tail end of nearly 2-year-old lawsuit filed by
My acting debut came in an elementary school play that reenacted scenes from the first Thanksgiving. I was assigned to play a Native American, complete with a construction paper feather headband. The story we told on stage is the one that millions of Americans are celebrating today—the Wampanoag people and the Pilgrims sitting down together in unity, giving thanks for a bountiful harvest.
It wasn't until after college, when I picked up Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, that I learned that no one ate cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie on the first Thanksgiving, or that the holiday is steeped in brutality and betrayal. Such conversations could serve as a useful teaching moment and opportunity for discussion for millions of students every year, but the vast majority of schools persist in teaching a simplistic
