We can no longer argue the fact that the Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived. This past weekend marked its largest efforts yet, not only with a massive march to Times Squares but also with global protests echoing the message first voiced at Zuccotti Park.
Protesters have occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City since September 17th. This protest, Occupy Wall Street, has since spread across the United States: from Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago to our own Washington, DC.
The president’s message was simple enough, but just to make sure that it reached the 535 members of Congress sitting before him he repeated it more than seventeen times: his bumper-sticker ready message, “Pass this bill now.” That bill was the American Jobs Act, the president’s $447 billion stimulative response to anemic job growth that he outlined before a joint session of Congress in early September.
I first heard about Troy Davis three years ago as a freshman in Professor Richard Stack’s understanding media class, and I will admit that I naively believed for a long time that the Georgia death row inmate would one day be free.
For the US, the Great Recession was an economic crisis brought about by the manipulative excesses of banks and big business that had an economic domino effect.
Earlier this week, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Vargas wrote a chilling piece in which he finally “came out” as an illegal alien of the United States.
Earlier this month, AU’s new Social Media Club held its inaugural Social Media Learning Summit, featuring discussions on media literacy and the use of social media in education.
