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Strike Against Prisons not Education

By Jonathan Simor

With a heavy heart I am not joining many of my students and colleagues who are striking against classes and educational activities at UC Berkeley and other UC campuses across the state beginning tomorrow (and through Friday the 20th). We ought to be united in mobilization to save higher education in California. But in choosing to make the fight a convenient and ideologically satisfying (but for the most part phony) story about privatization, down-sizing, and pernicious, corporate minded university leadership, UC's unions and their student and faculty allies are missing a historic opportunity to engage our fellow citizens in a critical dialog about our state's future. That future has been mortgaged to expensive dysfunctional prisons and a bipartisan law-enforcement establishment that is committed to mass incarceration at any price...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on November 18, 2009 (boomark / email).