JOIN US! You are the 99% too! For urgent alerts please text “follow SFSUoccupation” to 40404. twitter: #occupysfsu @occupysfstateTumblr (3.0; @occupysfsu)http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/47e4ac1f6e1b1d511bd852b3a8e9d678/tumblr_mmll1wFM7K1qzn1z5o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/075a5d872c3d45c1da2b830829bdbe6a/tumblr_mmll1wFM7K1qzn1z5o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://heterogeneoushomosexual.tumblr.com/post/50635559043/chloedietz-yesterday-there-were-posters-strewn" class="tumblr_blog">heterogeneoushomosexual</a>:</p> <blockquote><h5><strong><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://chloedietz.tumblr.com/post/50105725416/yesterday-there-were-posters-strewn-all-over-the">chloedietz</a>:<br/><br/></strong><em><strong>Yesterday there were posters strewn all over the commons reading</strong></em></h5> <p><strong>STUDENT DEBT<br/></strong><strong>AND<br/></strong><strong>WAGE SLAVERY<br/></strong><strong>WILL<br/></strong><strong>DESTROY<br/></strong><strong>EDUCATION</strong></p> <h4><em><strong>This morning Tom Manley sat in the commons to have coffee and answer questions with students. I heard about the conversation from faculty yesterday, yet I don’t know a single student who received an e-mail about it (I have been asking).</strong></em></h4> <h4><em><strong>Tom Manley’s assistant cleaned up the posters before he came into the room.</strong></em></h4> <h4><em><strong>So this morning, a new double-sided poster is going around.</strong></em></h4> <h3><em>__________________________________________________.</em></h3></blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/50640980112http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/50640980112Fri, 17 May 2013 01:17:14 -0700adullbrilliance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9d6b89fd53dffe3b749f3f217825e4fd/tumblr_mii7155IUE1r7e0lyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><strong>Join the fight to SAVE CCSF!</strong></em></p> <p><strong>Coalition Student Action </strong></p> <p>Where: Ram Plaza, CCSF, Ocean Campus</p> <p>Date: Thursday, February 21st 2013</p> <p><em>more info <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/332160063557033/">here</a></em></p>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/43547528694http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/43547528694Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:24:29 -0800adullbrilliance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7brx6EoOp1r0524uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://irresistible-revolution.tumblr.com/post/30592808403/kygelly-1968-the-third-world-liberation-front">irresistible-revolution</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kygelly.tumblr.com/post/30272767930/1968-the-third-world-liberation-front-united">kygelly</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>1968: the Third World Liberation Front united Africans, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans along with their White allies in the longest student strike in U.S. history to demand the formation of an Ethnic Studies department at San Francisco State and UC Berkeley</p> </blockquote> <p>POC repreSENT what</p> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/43526674497http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/43526674497Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:57:27 -0800san francisco statesfsuadullbrilliance<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/occupysfsu/27963510071/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_27963510071" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="225" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://occupyiowa.tumblr.com/post/27959840953/the-youtube-corporation-and-cbs-have-now-censored">occupyiowa</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft='{"type":1,"tn":"K"}'><span class="messageBody" data-ft='{"type":3}'>The YouTube corporation and CBS have now censored the original video of Anaheim cops shooting at children. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/">http://www.youtube.com/</a></a></span><span class="word_break"></span>watch?v=MST4RhWdlMQ<br/><br/> “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by CBS.”<br/><br/> Spread links to the mirrors. Keep firing.</h6> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/27963510071http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/27963510071Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:08:36 -0700fuck this shitadullbrilliance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m750ibSRKd1qfjplbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/27180844145http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/27180844145Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:41:15 -0700adullbrilliance<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5EEbC__JaAs?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://connerloveseveryone.tumblr.com/post/26601108798/pass-it-on-until-everyone-wakes-up">connerloveseveryone</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Pass it on until everyone wakes up.</p> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26770351530http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26770351530Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:17:20 -0700adullbrilliance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4hf6z4dfy1r8p0hao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://oldenough2burmom.tumblr.com/post/23611079190/check-out-click-through-link-for-great-and-free">oldenough2burmom</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Check out click-through link for great and free occupy art.</p> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26649459862http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26649459862Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:39:16 -0700adullbrilliance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ptfkAp9Z1r7e0lyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>All Out for CCSF! Monday, July 9.</p> <p>It doesn’t matter that this is Occupy SFSU.</p> <p>Education is Under Attack! STAND UP! FIGHT BACK!</p>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26597178571http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26597178571Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:28:00 -0700occupy educationoccupy collegesIMPORTANTadullbrilliance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5tdk13YWo1r5x4f4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.motu-viget.com/post/25360341454/debt-is-future-labor-traded-as-money-organize-now">motuviget</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Debt is future labor traded as money. Organize now to own your future.</p> <p>Illustration by Monica Johnson</p> <p><a href="http://edudebtorsunion.org/wp/about/"><a href="http://edudebtorsunion.org/wp/about/">http://edudebtorsunion.org/wp/about/</a></a></p> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26396626758http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26396626758Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:43:31 -0700adullbrilliance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jmm8ZqtJ1qcokc4o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/26354877575/the-only-advanced-country-without-a-national">theatlantic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-only-advanced-country-without-a-national-vacation-policy-its-the-us/259317/">The Only Advanced Country Without a National Vacation Policy? It’s the U.S.</a></strong></p> <blockquote> <p>There’s no wrong way to celebrate American exceptionalism, but this might not be the best candidate for cheering this July 4th Week: The United States is practically the only developed country in the world that doesn’t require companies to give their workers time off. In Germany, workers are guaranteed a month. In the UK, they’re guaranteed more than five weeks of paid vacation. In the U.S., unique in its class, there is no such guarantee.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-only-advanced-country-without-a-national-vacation-policy-its-the-us/259317/">Read more.</a></strong> <em>[Image: Rebecca Ray, John Schmitt/ETUI]</em></p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26360688171http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26360688171Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:49:01 -0700adullbrilliance<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://unity21.tumblr.com/post/26084446174/capitalism-contradiction">unity21</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="hasCaption">This infographic is representative of the conditions our communities endure and the oppressive nature of our struggle.<br/><br/><strong>This is why we must organize!</strong> #ows<br/><br/>(<a href="http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt">http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt</a></a>)</span></p> <p><span class="hasCaption"><br/><img align="middle" alt="Infographic: Capitalism Contradictions" height="960" src="http://unity21.org/tumblrpics/capitalism.jpg" width="660"/><br/><br/></span></p> <p><a href="http://unity21.tumblr.com/post/26084446174/capitalism-contradiction">Read More</a></p> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26129603935http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/26129603935Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:05:05 -0700adullbrilliance<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/155887/grieving_father_struggles_to_repay_dead_son's_massive_student_loans/">Grieving Father Struggles to Repay Dead Son's Massive Student Loans | Economy | AlterNet</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://rabbleprochoice.tumblr.com/post/25165758869/grieving-father-struggles-to-repay-dead-sons-massive">rabbleprochoice</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://questionall.tumblr.com/post/25159262844/grieving-father-struggles-to-repay-dead-sons-massive">questionall</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p id="paragraph3">Reynoso’s son, Freddy, had been the pride of his family and the first to go to college. In 2005, after Freddy was accepted to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, his father co-signed on his hefty private student loans, making him fully liable should Freddy be unwilling or unable to repay them. It was no small decision for a man who made just over $21,000 in 2011, according to his tax returns.</p> <p id="paragraph4">“As a father, you’ll do anything for your child,” Reynoso, an American citizen originally from Mexico, said through a translator.</p> <p id="paragraph5">Now, he’s suffering a Kafkaesque ordeal in which he’s hounded to repay loans that funded an education his son will never get to use — loans that he has little hope of ever paying off. While Reynoso’s wife, Sylvia, is studying to be a beautician, his gardening is currently the sole source of income for the family, which includes his 18-year-old daughter, Evelyn.</p> <p id="paragraph6">And the loans are maddeningly opaque. Despite the help of a lawyer, Reynoso has not been able to determine exactly how much he owes, or even what company holds his loans. Just as happened with home mortgages in the boom years before the 2008 financial crash, his son’s student loans have been sold and resold, and at least one was likely bundled into a complex Wall Street security. But the trail of those transactions ends at a wall of corporate silence from companies that include two household names: banking giant UBS and Xerox, which owns the loan servicer handling the bulk of his loans. Left without answers is a bereaved father.</p> <p id="paragraph8">The grief was relentless; the debt collectors, ruthless. <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre18.shtm">By law</a>, debt collectors must go through a debtor’s attorney if one has been hired, but even after Reynoso hired an attorney, he said they continued to call him every day, several times a day, for about a year and a half: “I would tell them to call the lawyer. And they would still say, ‘The lawyer doesn’t owe us. You’re the one who owes us. You’re the one who has to pay us.’”</p> <p id="paragraph9">Meanwhile, Reynoso was still reeling: “I was crying for him every day,” he said.</p> <p id="paragraph10">The question of to whom Reynoso’s debts are actually owed — and who has the authority to forgive them — is a mystery that thus far neither Reynoso nor his lawyer has been able to solve.</p> <p id="paragraph11">One of Freddy’s student loans was <a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/discharges.jsp">canceled after his </a><a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/discharges.jsp">death</a>without a problem: his federal loan. That’s because the government <a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/discharges.jsp">cancels student loans if a student dies</a>.</p> <p id="paragraph12">But the bulk of Freddy’s loans were private student loans, which typically offer less favorable interest rates and fewer consumer protections. Only <a href="http://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles/2141-death-and-disability-may-now-get-you-out-of-paying-loans">a few</a> <a href="https://www.wellsfargo.com/press/2010/20101217_EFS">private student lenders</a> offer debt discharges in the event of the borrower’s death, though public outcry over specific cases has swayed lenders to grant occasional death discharges.</p> <p id="paragraph13">But for the Reynosos, just figuring out whom to appeal to has been an exercise in futility. Working with a law firm, Francisco Reynoso sent copies of Freddy’s death certificate to any company that sent paperwork about the loans. He remembers being told by at least one company that they’d call him to work out a solution. But no one ever did, he said, and the bills kept coming — each time larger than the last with more interest, more late fees.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/25281130391http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/25281130391Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:53:34 -0700occupy student debtoccupy educationadullbrilliance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53p9lWrHt1r7e0lyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>educate vs incarcerate</p>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/24407048824http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/24407048824Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:17:45 -0700fuck this shitoccupyoccupy educationthe system is riggedadullbrilliance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4winlte7m1qkjriqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>wearethe99percent.tumblr.com</p>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/24200989425http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/24200989425Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:53:40 -0700adullbrilliance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xvrileyT1rq5fb8o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/24200913088http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/24200913088Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:52:01 -0700occupyoccupy everythingadullbrilliance“I believe in CAPITALISM like I believe in gravity, I acknowledge it exists but I don’t agree with it because all it does is hold me DOWN!”<br/><br/> - <em>Terrence</em>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/22697887076http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/22697887076Tue, 08 May 2012 20:28:48 -0700terrerrrismsadullbrilliance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3esvhSoS61r7e0lyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>OSFSU bike faction at the March for Dignity and Resistance on May 1st</p>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/22266522919http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/22266522919Wed, 02 May 2012 12:02:00 -0700Occupy SFSUM1GSadullbrilliance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m309kbMTni1qzocj9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://funtime.tumblr.com/post/21740906253/occupied-wells-fargo-headquarters-san-francisco">funtime</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Occupied.</p> <p>Wells Fargo Headquarters, San Francisco</p> </blockquote>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/21777232084http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/21777232084Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:01:36 -0700A24fuck foreclosuresadullbrilliance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zzxd9bGB1r7e0lyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Occupy Wells Fargo!</p>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/21726841423http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/21726841423Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:10:23 -0700occupy sf99%occupy everywherefuck foreclosuressolidarityadullbrilliance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt4yg8phVU1qalswuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/21588197451http://occupysfsu.tumblr.com/post/21588197451Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:44:15 -0700tonyalvaishott