- Kiyosha Jones
- The protest has already begun at UNC Charlotte
The “Occupy” movement is moving to a college campus near you. Occupy Colleges is urging students to walk out of class at noon on Wednesday and gather at their campus’ common area.
UPDATE: We have confirmation that there will be a gathering at UNC Charlotte’s bell tower at that time.
If you’re a Charlotte-area student participating in the walkout, we want to hear from you. One essential question: Why? (Feel free to add more.) Respond in the comments section below or email us at backtalk@creativeloafing.com.
In the meantime, local videographer Bryan Wright has shared this video with us from last Saturday’s Occupy Charlotte General Assembly:
This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2011.
Main Campus or Center City Campus?
what are the protesters offering as an alternative? Do they have proposed solutions or do they just enjoy being ‘ironic’ protesting corporate greed in their designer Abercrombie clothes and tweeting their ‘revolution’ on iPhones.
These children are laughable.
It’s ‘ironic’ that other members of the 99% continue to preach as if they’re part of the 1%. Try refraining from your armchair politics for 2 minutes to imagine a world where all people have voices. You can see this in action on Saturday at 3pm.
Hope to see you there,
a 35-year old child w/o Abercrombie or an iPhone
These aren’t the 99%. They are the 5% fringe who blame everyone for their problems except themselves. I was going to say I feel bad for their parents, but there’s no way they aren’t at fault for their kids being so unbelievably ignorant.
Yeah this one “laughable child” of the 99% is 22, has worked since she was 16 and currently holds 4 part-time jobs just to make ends meet. And that’s when she’s not up until 3am, studying, trying to improve her 3.8 GPA so she can qualify for some resemblance of decent financial aid as a graduate student next fall. Her sum of financial aid this year is $7500 in loans, which barely covers books and she received no grants, no scholarships, NOTHING. Her family is not rich, and nowhere near close to it. In fact, they earned less last year than they did the year prior. You would think this would qualify her for more financial aid, but it didn’t because of a poorly structured means to determining who deserves financial aid. She does not have an iPhone, sure as hell doesn’t shop at Abercrombie, mommy and daddy don’t pay for anything (no, not even her education) and despite all of her hard work over the past 6 years, she still does not receive anything in return but commendations from her professors. It would be great if someone out there thought that a low income, a high GPA, maintaining a job for so long and wonderful work and professor references were enough to grant her a little something extra to help reduce the cost of a better future. But it doesn’t. And my solution? Establish more demanding requirements for admission to universities, public and private. It would weed out the students who aren’t serious about their education and who waste the money that I value so dearly. Additionally, I would require that students maintain a certain GPA through all semesters, with the consequence of being expelled if they obviously weren’t dedicated to their futures. Or something along those lines. It’s not fair to anyone that a C, D or F-average student receives a free education when those of us who want to be there have to pay.