In Case You Missed This... Cause I Did, LOL !!! - 'Occupy's Second Wave Spreads To College Campuses'

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Occupy Wall Street Spreads To Colleges With Protests Against Student Debt
Saki Knafo - HuffPo
Posted: 03/01/12 07:13 PM ET | Updated: 03/02/12 06:08 PM ET

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Students from colleges and high schools around the country gathered Thursday for protests and rallies called the National Day of Action for Education. Two groups associated with the Occupy movement –- Occupy Colleges and Occupy Education -– organized the event, along with a group called the New York Student Aid Alliance.

Natalia Abrams, an organizer with Occupy Colleges, said that more than 70 schools pledged through the Occupy Colleges website to send at least 100 students each to the rallies, with some schools pledging hundreds more. She estimated turnout to be in the "mid to high thousands."

The event is the second in two days that has drawn attention to what might be described as a second wave of the Occupy movement.

Call it Occupy 2.0. After evictions ended the movement's camping phase a few months ago, the occupation went into hibernation. Activists regrouped and got more organized, focusing on specific issues. Wednesday's march targeted the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization that promotes policies intended to benefit corporations. Thursday's took aim at the high cost of education.

Compared with the novel spectacle of tent cities that rallied protesters and the media five months ago, this week's events haven't received much attention. Without people camping in public places, the movement isn't quite as conducive to photo ops and headlines. But if it has come to resemble a more traditional protest movement, many Occupy activists say that's a good thing.

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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/occupy-wall-street_n_1314948.html#s746896&title=Sara_Shaw

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[WillyT]

2. You're The Best...

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[mmonk]

4. Yes. I posted Occupy NC State's announcement of this on my Facebook page.

But they have been there since day one and did a mic check on Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf back in November.

[JDPriestly]

5. I like the emphasis on ALEC

and would like to see Occupy challenge and bring to life the whole lobbyist culture in D.C. A lot of big firms need to be mentioned for what they do to our country every day. Many of them represent foreign countries that do not have our security or interests at heart.

The Abramoff interviews and book could throw some light on this. I don't think that his experiences and what they mean about what is going on in D.C. and our local and state governments was adequately investigated or discussed in the media. The treatment of his story was rather superficial. And I understood him to state that he did not tell his whole story or name all the names that he knew. I may be wrong about that, but as I recall that is what he said.

In case you have forgotten:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff