Ruben Armiñana, in tandem with irresponsible CSU administrators, have created the material conditions for the private take-over of public education By Danny Weil, Introduction The mission of Sonoma State University (SSU) has been sacrificed on the altar of finances and more specifically, debt. 2012 promises to be a ‘debt laden’ and ‘cost shifting’ year for [...]
By Peter Phillips “Don’t waste any more time or energy on the presidential election than it takes to get to your polling station and pull a lever for a third-party candidate-—just enough to register your obstruction and defiance—and then get back out onto the street. That is where the question of real power is being [...]
By Danny Weil, Part I: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/occupied-sonoma-state-university-no-billionaire-left-behind-and-the-sordid-tale-of-the-financialization-and-corporatization-of-one-california-state-university/ This section, part two, of a four part series on Sonoma State University (SSU or “the college”) is more abstract, a bit more theoretical. It has to be; in order to understand the financialization of the university, its corporatization and the dire consequences all of this poses to campus [...]
Part I Introduction By Danny Weil In the early part of the 20th century the fertile valley of Sonoma county was the former stomping grounds of author, Jack London and refuge for Jewish chicken farmers fleeing Russia and Eastern Europe. Now beautiful Sonoma State University sits at the foot of those majestic cascading mountains nestled [...]
Jeremy Cloward, Ph.D. Diablo Valley College Abstract The main issue that the United States needs to confront in order to move from a liberal capitalist society which is organized around the interests of the wealthy to a socialist political and economic system that is run by and for working people is the problem of [...]