Student activists from all over the United States are heading to the University of California Los Angeles this week for the United States Student Association’s annual National Student Congress.
The Congress is where USSA, the country’s oldest and largest national student association, elects its leaders and sets its agenda for the coming year, but it’s also a lot more than that. Since 1947, the Congress has been a place where student government leaders and other student activists have come together to share ideas, plot strategy, and learn new tactics. The Congress, like USSA itself, is a crucial part of the infrastructure of the American student movement.
The Congress itself doesn’t formally get underway until Thursday, but pre-meeting events will be going on all week, and as the #NSC10 Twitter feed shows, USSA’s activists are already beginning to make their way to Los Angeles. I’ll be flying out to LA myself on Friday morning, and staying through the end of Congress next Tuesday.
As readers of this blog well know, California has produced an incredible amount of campus organizing this past year. Over the next eight days, UCLA will host an extraordinary gathering of activists from across the state and nation. It’s going to be a big deal.
Expect lots of news and previews starting today, and extensive on-the-scene coverage while I’m out there.
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July 12, 2010 at 5:29 pm
brian tourville
Gentlemen,
We are employing Unsustainable Economic Models for the benefit
of Corporate Investors.. a concept I recall hearing about in the late
1950’s – that Government would not allow because the outcome
was projected to be the collapse of American Consumerism.
Why would Washington enable our American based corporations
to move it’s American jobs that contribute directly to federal_state_municipal revenues,
overseas with no repatriation on overseas sales coming back to the United States
to make up for the loss of Jobs, loss of Federal_State_Municipal revenues?
The monies from those American Corporation Sales go to Off Shore Banking.
“The Wealth of a Nation is it’s Manufacturing for Export.
Anyone who says or believes otherwise is a fool or a liar”.
As to the direct and knowing mismanagement of previous Administrations:
Treason is a very applicable word applying to those elected leaders that engineered and were complicit in this
unregulated ‘Globalism’ boon dongle:
‘Trickle Down’
‘Globalism’
Globalism is a Madison Ave. concoction and a joke among our trading partners who recognize it for what it is:
A ‘Hollywood’ word meant to swoon the Americans like a great Crusade.
There will be no positive Economic resolution for America until this ‘mistake’
is fully revisited and addressed by Washington in the Press.
Push back can be expected, however the full weight of all Offices involved
should be targeted at cornering the American Corporations such that
they cannot threaten to move more jobs off shore as was recently threatened
by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Mr.Ballmer further threatened to organize a Corporate response against
Washington should this matter be brought up.
This behavior should not be permitted and Laws leading up to
the cornering of American Corporates to then force repatriation oshould be enacted quietly until such
time as enough structure is in place that they will have no recourse other than
to agree to repatriation of funds from overseas sales – retroactively.
In no way should American Corporations be permitted to betray this Nation
as they have and are continuing to do so.
Student Activism should take up this topic and make it their own.
No other voice will bring this corruption of our Nations Employment forward
so it is up to us to do so and we must prosecute with prejudice.
Respectfully,
Brian M.Tourville
*note_read
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html
July 12, 2010 at 6:11 pm
M John Love
Great, can’t wait to see you Mr. Johnston.