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Showing videos filed under: student protest
Dean Baker, Laurie Penny, and the Coming Water Crisis
November 15, 2010“It's the wrong answer to not a problem," says Dean Baker of the report out last week from the leaders of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. The report, which recommends massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care programs, has been roundly criticized by progressives for its targeting, but Dean notes that the biggest problem with it is that without the health care crisis we still have, we wouldn't have deficits in the first place.Laurie Penny: Smashing Up the Future
November 15, 2010"It's fair to smash up someone's future but not to smash up someone's lobby," notes UK journalist Laurie Penny of the student protests in London last week, now being branded as "violent" and "out of control." Aside from one person who dropped a fire extinguisher off a building, she points out, the protests were free of violence against people, and property damage needs to be put in the proper perspective.Police Attack 880 Interstate Takeover
March 10, 2010Brandon Jourdan and David Martinez were both held in jail for over 20 hours after filming this footage from a student protest in Oakland on March 4, where students took over an exit ramp on the highway before being rounded up by baton-wielding riot police.Youth Unemployment, Carrie Brunk, and Student Protests
March 9, 2010The focus during the unemployment crisis has been largely on those who have lost their jobs, but students and first-time job seekers have been hit hard as well. Viany Orozco of Demos points out that for those who enter the workforce for the first time during a recession, the wage hit can last for many years down the road.
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