Way to go Brother!

Excelllent piece, Jim. I appreciate your leadership!

Congratulations! Not everyone achieves their goal.

Amazing talk from Dennis

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Very good talk. It summarizes everything. I am a Stanford alumni too with MSEE,MSIE,MSME 1963-1968 I have been dedicated to ONLINHE for the last 21 years . There are 14 million students in 4 year colleges in the USA . 3 million are graduate students . 11 million UG needs quality low cost HE. But only 200 top universities can provide quality educdation to 5 million students face to face . The need is for 11 - 5 = 6 million undergraduate students . President Hennesy does not promise too much for UG students . Sure online is better fit to Graduate students . We and particularly Stanford must find a way to provide high quality HE by education technology to these 6 million UG students . ONLINE will be obsolete within 4-5 years better Technologies will follow . Solution is convince EDX to provide degree programs plus make other 200 high performing universities to provide online degree programs at low cost such as $ 200 per course ..

That woman in the red shirt is clueless as to what is REALLY going on. Why is that woman in the black shirt always nodding her head excessively, like a fucking parrot? Theses Cultural Communists are treading a very fine line in violating civil rights.

Almost forgot, another bizarre claim is that the US has always tolerated "civil disobedience". One merely has to take a cursory look at labour history in the US to see the claim is nugatory. Take Ben Reitman's torture, Frank Little's lynching, Carlo Tresca's assassination, the sentences imposed on Haywood and his fellow workers in light of the Palmer raids...

Singularly awful. Beginning with what Dalton calls Gandhi's "anglophilia" - in fact, his support for the Britsh Empire in South Africa. Gandhi declined to even associate with the native Africans, let alone attempt to organise them in their struggle for autonomy. Gandhi preferred instead to associate with the Indian petit-bourgeoisie, encouraging them to support the British Empire in their colonial squabble with the Dutch (perhaps Dalton approves, after all, the Empire gave Mandela something to be forgiving about). He later agitated for Indians to join the first world war as a student in London. Read Saklatvala's "Who is this Gandhi?" (1930) for more (Orwell's article draws on it). As for Thoreauvian "Civil Disobedience" (1849), I have a copy to hand of "Civil Disobedience and Other Essays". In it, he writes in the title essay that "... when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionise. What makes this duty the more urgent is that fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army." Later on he writes in "A Plea for John Brown" (1860), in reference to the radical abolitionist who organised raids on slave holders and was hanged for it, that "at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoined if [he] had succeeded [in his fatal raid]"... When one of his townsmen remarked 'he died as the fool dieth', Thoreau considers this "suggested a likeness in him dying to my neighbor living".When it is claimed "he won't gain anything by it", Thoreau rejoins that "I don't suppose he could get four-and-sixpence a day for being hung, take the year round; but then he stands a chance to save a considerable part of his soul, - and such a soul! - when you do not. No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to". As for Mandela always exhibiting compassion - certainly! Especially when he helped found Umkhonto we Sizwe, the guerilla warfare movement closely allied to the South African Communist Party. In fact, he was even willing to forgive Suharto on behalf of the massacred East Timorese (proportionately greater numbers of them were slaughtered than native South Africans), awarding him South Africa's highest honour. As for the repeated demands that Occupy adopt a leadership - patently absurd! Dalton could have crowned a hamster as king of the Occupy movement, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. Read Albert Meltzer's "I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels" (1996) for more for why we should substitute "law and order" for "peace and tranquillity".

I love Dennis, but the Occupy Wall Street movement does not have as clear cut an enemy as Jim Crow, British Colonialism, slavery, Monarchy, etc. Occupy Wall Street is an attempt to give birth to Democracy 2.0 It is a struggle for enlightenment, not only a struggle against control. Civility is a baseline, but civil disobedience and a classic hierarchal movement does not really fit. Dennis misses the moral example. Of course, there are plenty on the Left and Right who are trapped in the anger cycle. How do we overcome our own faults? The young have been misled by the standards of stewardship, and easily can be attracted to the hypocrisy of the past, rather than the subtle moral genius. The failure of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that civil disobedience is actually anachronistic.