Complete March 4 Protest Coverage
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We have the most comprehensive, even exhaustive coverage of the March 4 protests against cuts in California public education at Neon Tommy.
Here’s just a few of our higlights:
A running blog with dispatches, photos and slideshows.
Hundreds of photos from our live Flickrfeed.
A compilation of protest videos.
A slideshow and a report from protests at UCLA.
A slideshow from the protest in Pershing Square — Los Angeles
A report from Cal State Northridge.
A slideshow of the large protest at UC Irvine.
An audioslideshow from UC Riverside.
A report with video from UC Santa Cruz.
A round-up of protests across the country.
An analysis of challenges facing the student movement.
And much much much more still coming in through the night.
March 4th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Wow, excellent work. I love the mixture of reporting, video, slideshows, etc. If anything, I only wish the news and analysis had been more extensive and more contextual. To take a couple of examples:
The LaRouche cult is hanging with protesters in LA? Does it have any appeal with students, do students know its history, or does it just show up at rallies like other sectarian organizations and get ignored?
In the analysis of challenges facing the student movement, I wonder if the movement and readers might benefit from looking at past student movements against fee hikes, and what succeeded or didn’t. There were protests against fee hikes when I was in school, there were lots of protests, but summer roles around and everyone goes home, people graduate and move on, etc. The fees keep going up, though, making me wonder about long-term movement sustainability and actually winning this fight. I think the transient nature of student life is a one challenge to sustaining a movement in the long term. There are plenty of others, of course, but I’d love to see some strong movement analysis, both from students and from journalists.
These are just initial thoughts I had looking through the excellent presentation. It’s certainly not to fault any of the reporters, who are providing great news as it unfolds and under time constraints. The whole team deserves a hearty congratulations for putting this together. Bravo! I can’t wait for more.
March 4th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
[...] Leftist provides a fine list of links and Marc Cooper points to the superb coverage on Neon Tommy, with lots of photos and video. [...]
March 5th, 2010 at 10:27 am
very good reporting–like it a lot. Good work.
March 6th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Maybe get Michael Moore on the case…his latest to Obama:
President Obama: Replace Rahm with Me …an open letter from Michael Moore
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Dear President Obama,
I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chief of staff.
I would like to humbly offer myself, yours truly, as his replacement.
I will come to D.C. and clean up the mess that’s been created around you. I will work for $1 a year. I will help the Dems on Capitol Hill find their spines and I will teach them how to nonviolently beat the Republicans to a pulp.
And I will help you get done what the American people sent you there to do. I don’t need much, just a cot in the White House basement will do.
Now, don’t get too giddy with excitement over my offer, because you and I are going to be up at 5 in the morning, 7 days a week and I am going to get you pumped up for battle every single day (see photo). Each morning you and I will do 100 jumping jacks and you will repeat after me:
“THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED ME, NOT THE REPUBLICANS, TO RUN THE COUNTRY! I AM IN CHARGE! I WILL ORDER ALL OBSTRUCTIONISTS OUTTA MY WAY! IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T LIKE WHAT I’M DOING THEY CAN THROW MY ASS OUT IN 2012. IN THE MEANTIME, I CALL THE SHOTS ON THEIR BEHALF! NOW, CONGRESS, DROP AND GIVE ME 50!!”
Then we will put on our jogging sweats and run up to Capitol Hill. We will take names, kick butts, and then take some more names. If we have to give a few noogies or half-nelson’s, then so be it. In our pockets we will have a piece of paper to show the pansy Dems just how much they won by in 2008 — and the poll results that show the majority of Americans oppose the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and want the bankers punished. Like drill sergeants, we will get right up in their faces and ask them, “WHAT PART OF THE PUBLIC MANDATE DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND, SOLDIER?!! DROP AND GIVE ME 50!”
I know this is the job Rahm Emanuel was supposed to be doing.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I have always admired Rahm Emanuel (if you don’t count his getting NAFTA pushed through Congress in the ’90s which destroyed towns like Flint, Michigan. I know, picky-picky.). He is what we needed for a long time — a no-apologies, take-no-prisoners fighting machine. Someone who is not afraid to get his hands dirty and pound the right wing into submission. Far from being the foul-mouthed bully he has been portrayed as, Rahm is the one who BEAT UP the bullies to protect us from them.
That’s certainly what he did in 2006. After six long, miserable years of the middle-class getting slaughtered and the poor being flushed down the toilet, Rahm Emanuel took on the job of returning Congress to the Democrats. No one believed it could be done.
But he did it. Big time. He put the fear of God into the party of Rush and Newt. They had never been so scared. More importantly, though, he instilled a sense of hope in the Democrats that they could actually score the mother of all hat tricks in 2008 — and with you, an African American no less, in the pole position!
It worked. The Darkness ended. The vast majority of nation wept with joy on the night of the election (those who weren’t weeping went out and bought a record number of guns and ammo). Unlike the last president, you didn’t “win” by 537 votes in Florida (although Gore won the popular vote by a half-million), you beat McCain nationally by 9,522,083 votes! The House Democrats got a walloping 79-vote margin. The Senate Dems would caucus with a supermajority of 60 votes unheard of in over 30 years. The wars would now end. America would have universal health care. Wall Street and the banks would, at the very least, be reined in. Hardworking citizens would not be thrown out of their homes. It was supposed to be the dawning of a new age.
But the Republicans were not going to go quietly into the night. You see, instead of having just one Rahm Emanuel, they are ALL Rahm Emanuels. That’s why they usually win. Unlike most Democrats, they are relentless and unstoppable. When they believe in something (which is usually themselves and the K Street job they hope to be rewarded with someday), they’ll fight for it till the death. They are loyal to a fault to each other (they were never able to denounce Bush, even though they knew he was destroying the party). They dig their heels in deep no matter what. If you exiled them to a lone chunk of melting polar ice cap, they would keep insisting that it was just a normal “January thaw,” even as the frigid Arctic waters rose above their God-fearing necks (“See what I mean — this water is COLD! What ‘global *warming*’?! Adam and Eve rode dinos…aagghh!!… gulp gulp gulp”).
We thought we were all done with this craziness, but we were mistaken. Like a beast that you just can’t cage, the Republicans convinced not only the media, but YOU and your fellow Dems, that 59 votes was a *minority*! Precious time was lost trying to reach a “consensus” and trying to be “bipartisan.”
Well, you and the Democrats have been in charge now for over a year and not one banking regulation has been reinstated. We don’t have universal health care. The war in Afghanistan has escalated. And tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose their jobs and be thrown out of their homes. For most of us, it’s just simply no longer good enough that Bush is gone. Woo hoo. Bush is gone. Yippee. That hasn’t created one new friggin’ job.
You’re such a good guy, Mr. President. You came to Washington with your hand extended to the Republicans and they just chopped it off. You wanted to be respectful and they decided that they were going to say “no” to everything you suggested. Yet, you kept on saying you still believed in bipartisanship.
Well, if you really want bipartisanship, just go ahead and let the Republicans win in November. Then you’ll get all the bipartisanship you want.
Let me be clear about one thing: The Democrats on Election Day 2010 are going to get an ass-whoopin’ of biblical proportions if things don’t change right now. And after the new Republican majority takes over, they, along with a few conservative Democrats in Congress, will get to bipartisanly impeach you for being a socialist and a citizen of Kenya. How nice to see both sides of the aisle working together again!
And the brief window we had to fix this country will be gone.
Gone.
Gone, baby, gone.
I don’t know what your team has been up to, but they haven’t served you well. And Rahm, poor Rahm, has turned into a fighter — not of Republicans, but of the left. He called those of us who want universal health care “f***ing retarded.” Look, I don’t know if Rahm is the problem or if it’s Gibbs or Axelrod or any of the other great people we owe a debt of thanks to for getting you elected. All I know is that whatever is fueling your White House it’s now running on fumes. Time to shake things up! Time to bring me in to get you pumped up every morning! Go Barack! Yay Obama! Fight, Team, Fight!
I’m packed and ready to come to D.C. tomorrow. If it helps, you won’t really be losing Rahm entirely because I’ll be bringing his brother with me — my agent, Ari Emanuel. Man, you should see HIM negotiate a deal! Have you ever wanted to see Mitch McConnell walking around Capitol Hill carrying his own head in his hands after it’s just been handed to him by the infamous Ari? Oh, baby, it won’t be pretty — but boy will it be sweet!
What say you, Barack? Me and you against the world! Yes we can! It’ll be fun — and we may just get something done. Whaddaya got to lose? Hope?
Retardedly yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
P.S. Just to give you an idea of the new style I’ll be bringing with me, when a cornhole like Sen. Ben Nelson tries to hold you up next time, this is what I will tell him in order to get his vote: “You’ve got exactly 30 seconds to rescind your demand or I will personally make sure that Nebraska doesn’t get one more federal dollar for the rest of Obama’s term. And then I will let everyone in your state know that you wear Sooner panties, backwards. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME 50!”
March 6th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Marc knows what these protests are really about.
Glenn Beck: Violence from the left? – 03/05/2010
March 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
OT, but I have a question.
Why is it a media source can directly contradict a claim made in this story that it knows to be wrong, but so rarely does this in our domestic reporting? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100306/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran
Is it because he’s an acceptable enemy?
March 6th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
This is called Wonderland. Being down the Rabbit Hole.
America is the Rabbit Hole.
Infamous quote by a sonderkommando when Primo Levi asks…’why’. Reply: here there is no “why”.
March 7th, 2010 at 7:01 am
If the students choose to boycott classes until their demands are met in full, they have my full support.
March 7th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Talk about useful idiots…