Well just came home from covering the SDSU student walk out

[nadinbrzezinski]

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here is the good news... Occupy is dead... long live Occupy.

The media will have a harder time ignoring them... yup... you guessed it, they were there.

Oh and here is another one...

Students will not vote... Occupy don't know what they want.

MIKE CHECK! How many of you are registered to vote? About 60% of hands went up, and I am underestimating this. I am being conservative.

And yes, they were pretty clear in what they want... can we say FREE public education?

As they say... occupy is dead... really, and my lovely local media is having it smeared in their faces.

Now back to processing photos... though here is a piece of trivia. The first time I went and shot a student demonstration I was a graduate student at yes, SDSU... oh it fell like a real flashback to hear the exact same issues. Ok maybe replace departments that they want to ax. Back then it was Sociology and Food and Nutrition.. now it is ethnic studies.

Oh and here is one of the photos from today...

It says all..

[unionworks]

1. doesn't sound dead to me!

Thanks for the news!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yup but today I felt old

and to paraphrase the old sign.... "Why am I still covering this shit?"

[unionworks]

3. YOU felt old?

Davey Jones of the Monkees died this week. The first social message music I ever heard, "Pleasant Valley Sunday", riding my Stingray bike in my Levis and U.S. Keds, eating Bonomo "Turkish Taffee".

"Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land,
The grown ups talk about how hard life is,
And the kids just can't understand"...

I wept.

[unionworks]

4. Cover it because

Like the early days of the labor movement, the wobblies and the rest, somebody needs to write it down. So those in the future who hopefully are the better for us having fought these battles can look back and see our faces and our souls. Why did Steinbeck write?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yeah but it was kind of... a flashback

I still have those photos I shot, in film no less... somewhere in storage.

We all wore black arm bands at graduation...

We were protesting the death of public education as we knew it. Ok, we got a short reprieve, but little did we know, that was exactly what we were protesting.

[unionworks]

6. How many of us

who came of age during Vietnam do you think were having flashbacks watching the violence and brutality of the camp evictions?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Many.