Sunday, July 22, 1:00 – 5:30 pm Walnut Park, Petaluma Blvd. No. and D Street, downtown Petaluma.  Every year the Progressive Festival is the premier political gathering in the North Bay and this year is co-hosted by The Petaluma Progressives and Occupy Petaluma. Always free to the public, the Festival will feature: A brand-new performance by the SAN FRANCISCO MIME [...]

Ruben Armiñana, in tandem with irresponsible CSU administrators, have created the material conditions for the private take-over of public education By Danny Weil, Introduction The mission of Sonoma State University (SSU) has been sacrificed on the altar of finances and more specifically, debt.  2012 promises to be a ‘debt laden’ and ‘cost shifting’ year for [...]

By Peter Phillips “Don’t waste any more time or energy on the presidential election than it takes to get to your polling station and pull a lever for a third-party candidate-—just enough to register your obstruction and defiance—and then get back out onto the street. That is where the question of real power is being [...]

By Danny Weil, Part I: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/occupied-sonoma-state-university-no-billionaire-left-behind-and-the-sordid-tale-of-the-financialization-and-corporatization-of-one-california-state-university/ This section, part two, of a four part series on Sonoma State University (SSU or “the college”) is more abstract, a bit more theoretical.  It has to be; in order to understand the financialization of the university, its corporatization and the dire consequences all of this poses to campus [...]

Part I Introduction By Danny Weil In the early part of the 20th century the fertile valley of Sonoma county was the former stomping grounds of author, Jack London and refuge for Jewish chicken farmers fleeing Russia and Eastern Europe.  Now beautiful Sonoma State University sits at the foot of those majestic cascading mountains nestled [...]

Jeremy Cloward, Ph.D. Diablo Valley College   Abstract The main issue that the United States needs to confront in order to move from a liberal capitalist society which is organized around the interests of the wealthy to a socialist political and economic system that is run by and for working people is the problem of [...]

What is violence? Who gets to define it? Does it have a place in the pursuit of liberation? These age-old questions have returned to the fore during the Occupy movement. But this discussion never takes place on a level playing field; while some delegitimize violence, the language of legitimacy itself paves the way for the [...]

By Peter Phillips In an all day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro. Those attending were invited participants for the “Intellectual Encounters for Peace and the Preservation of the Environment” event at the Havana Convention Center. Topics discussed in [...]

By Danny Weil The for-profit university company, Educational Management Corporation (NASDAQ ticket name, EDMC) is one of those shady corporations that sell education over the counter like a commodity to unwitting students who either cannot get into traditional colleges or universities, or have been coaxed into the insidious ‘rabbit hole’ that is for-profit higher education. [...]

By: Danielle ILene Bennett Im tired of the war drums calling our brothas in reaching to recruit our children…”I do say my child I’m here to stop a beating heart today” How much longer do we stand for the nonsense and contribute to the master plan to destroy our ancestors in the motherland Always expecting [...]