[lbo-talk] Occupy Chico State

[michael perelman]

On Thursday morning while riding to school, the main entrance was
blocked with police tape.  Supposedly someone had called in a bomb
threat.  Later during the day, my office building was evacuated
because of some kind of mechanical malfunction.  Finally, a fire drill
set off alarms and forced us to leave the gym.  All that seemed like a
series of curious coincidences.
That night I was scheduled to give a talk at the Occupied Chico State
teach-in, which was supposed to be followed by a take-over of the
administration building. Because of the (phony?) bomb threat, the
building was locked down early.
I had intended to discuss a sequence of the Bonus March, the GI Bill,
which made higher education more accessible, then Reagan's 1966
institution of tuition for the previously tuition-free university
system, culminating in the mess we have today.  On Friday, I gave a
brief overview of the talk on our local NPR station.
Here is our unedited conversation.
http://www.archive.org/details/OccupyChicoState

-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929

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fax 530 898 5901
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