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what tripe
the chancellor is the head of the university. the chacellor is paid to represent the university, not themself. denton was paid to represent UCSC.
the conf...
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 5:59pm PDT
Don't Mourn, Organize.
Thanks for the letter, Josh, and trying to set us straight (im- possible, when it comes to the Sentinel and Mercury-News, of course).
But don't be diverted...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 12:57am PDT
Can we stop the cannibalism?
> Has anybody surveyed the suicide situation among workers and students up at UCSC who didn’t have Denton’s power and privileges?
Gee, I dunno. How many wor...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 9:18am PDT
gosh dee
every serious activist i know has been beaten up by police or "citizens", and recieved plenty of death threats. and we dont get paid 100+K a year, we volunteer...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 11:22am PDT
moreover
its time for you "bush is a monster" people like dee to wake up. read a little lakoff, about how problematic your framing is. the problem is systemic. bush i...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 11:26am PDT
All I ask for is some actual strategy
Well, "_" (whoever you are), if your idea of tactics is to dial the activism and harassment to 11 for anyone regardless of the audience you're trying to influen...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 2:31pm PDT
No, Dee
Actually, Dee, whoever *you* are, you were not asking for a strategy (as if it should be one persons job to dictate a coherent agenda or strategy for social cha...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 3:01pm PDT
Politics?
"_" says:
"But Denton happened to be a legitimate target ... since as a matter of JOB TITLE she happens to be the representative of the university of santa cru...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 3:20pm PDT
response
depends what position they took, but yes, thats how life works. if my friends and family take a "position of power" as you put it, and that puts us at odds, an...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 4:18pm PDT
Accuracy
I dont think accuracy was sacrificed by highlighting the Chancellor's car being blocked. You blocked her car to provoke interest in your cause and that's what h...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 4:58pm PDT
You gotta be kidding
> Why dont you sit down with his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and then think about the parallels between to the kind of rhetoric and argumentation you are ad...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 6:20pm PDT
wow dee
Dee: So you have no substantive points to make. OK.
Just FYI, the people in Santa Cruz are part of what is arguably still the civil rights movement, as we...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 7:32pm PDT
654321
No, what Dee is saying is that the things King did (with many others) during the Civil Rights struggle of the early 60s was needed, necessary, and morally corre...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 8:19am PDT
whatever
OK, so what you are saying is that what students are doing today is not "needed, necessary, or morally correct." I beg to differ.
I assume you didnt read Do...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 9:11am PDT
Theory vs. Practice
What I see in this discussion -- specifically, in the reaction to Dee, one of the few people to name herself and speak about looking past one's own stance to th...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 2:16pm PDT
May you learn something from Chancellor Denton's Death.
I can't believe I was young once. I was a college student like you. I was radical, very radical. I participated in real demonstrations about real issues of civi...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 10:42pm PDT
Remember Kissenger? How About Rice?
My compliments to Paul for writing openly. Of course, if I were a student worried about potential repercussions, police spying, and punitive retaliation for my...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 9:16am PDT
fair enough
Norse is right that ones gender or sexual background should have no bearing on whether the person is right or wrong on a subject. I hope no one is saying that D...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 9:38am PDT
gawd damn
Please, people, a little bit of thought and reflection would be nice. You keep revisiting the same thing and it stems from a failure to understand what activi...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 10:38am PDT
also.. oscar
activism requires a target. you don't go out and say, "the world is a complex place, lets be mad at all the complexities that we can only partially comprehend"...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 10:43am PDT