A few hundred people protested in the free speech area at Fresno State to encourage banks to give more money to finance higher education.
A similar rally will take place in San Francisco on November 16. For more information visit www.makebankspaycalifornia.com.
leelehmen • Nov 13, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Banks finance military operations, give governments impetus for almost anything despite the fact that recent controversy over the issue of credit limits leave no doubt about state inability to pay back loans. If federal government can conceal its bankruptcy by getting credit limits raised to $21trillion, why then can banks not take a bit of risk in financing higher education projects. Officials should know that if they do not care enough this time, they risk chaos and anarchy. People are getting out of their ways to get themselves heard, but policy makers are apathetically sitting in the corridors, planning on which country to attack now. We have been brought to this miserable pass by these hawkish think-tanks. Education, which once used to be easily available for everyone, now has become hostage to the greedy profit-seekers—banks. America is a land of opportunities; we shall fight to the better end to preserve this reality. We shall fight to make higher education cheaper, accessible so that campus education, which has become unreasonably expensive over the years, could become reachable to every section of society.
States like north central PA where campus schools are relatively rare, need due attention and instead of compelling people there to resort to online means of education, which are largely unreliable, banks should finance projects that set-up new campus schools and universities and help those people to gain valuable education.
leelehmen • Nov 12, 2011 at 2:27 am
I am not really sure this will help us in anyway. Hold Grievances, come next election and elect people with ambitions to allocate huge amount to education…..we spend hugely on defense…why cant we break a fraction of that amount and pour it into educational projects…such a painful irony this is..