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Ken Blackwell, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, is calling for the RNC to devote “unprecedented” financial resources to the College Republicans “to build vibrant College Republican chapters on every major university campus in the nation.”
The president of Carnegie Mellon’s College Republican chapter is telling him not to bother.
Throwing money at the College Republicans “will do nothing to win over young voters,” says Aaron Marks, and it may actually make things worse.
Until the GOP starts conducting more thoughtful outreach efforts, running younger candidates, and letting go of demographically toxic positions such as opposition to gay marriage, he says, it will never win the youth vote.
Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the fifteen-year-old whose death at the hands of police has sparked four days of student and youth rioting across the country of Greece, is being buried today. Protests are continuing.
The two police officers who were involved in the Grigoropoulos shooting have been indicted, one of them for murder.
Greek schools are closed today in an expression of mourning for Grigoropoulos. Children, parents, and teachers held a peaceful demonstration in Athens this morning to protest his death.
Government forces have still not entered the nation’s campuses, which have been off-limits to the police and army since the fall of the Greek junta in the 1970s, and which have as a result been used as staging areas for protesters and rioters.
The tag “griots” is being used to identify material pertaining to the ongoing Greek crisis on Twitter, Flickr, and various blogs.
Josh Marshall on what counts as “young” in TV news.
My dissertation is just about done, and I’ve begun circulating it to folks for comment. This morning, one erudite friend dropped me a line to tell me something I probably should have known.
The New York Times and the BBC are reporting that leftist youth and student rioting in Greece is entering its third day.
The riots, sparked by the police killing of a 15-year-old in Athens on Saturday, have spread to other major cities, and multiple demonstrations are planned for Monday.
Protesters are using gasoline bombs and rocks against the police, and dozens of officers have been injured since Saturday.
In 1973 the military sent tanks onto the campus of Athens Polytechnic University to suppress a student revolt against the country’s ruling junta, killing at least 22 civilians. Since then, the police and army have been barred from Greece’s college campuses.
The protesters this week have used campuses as safe havens, retreating to them when pursued by police, and even throwing Molotov cocktails at officers from behind their gates.
Students and youth are co-ordinating their protests online and posting reports on events at indymedia.org. According to accounts at that site, at least three buildings at Athens Polytechnic are currently under occupation by protesters.
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