[Boston-editorial] against centering Student-Workers article...

[Pete Stidman]

sorry to be repetitive, I just read it through and the
only thing he offers as evidence for the claim of
things rising to a "fever pitch" and the "beginning of
a movement" is a list of events happening, mostly in
the northeast.  All of this has apparently been culled
off the web, which is OK I guess (actually his list is
not even close to complete) But what is missing is a
comparison to recent years (spring is always a busy
time at the universities), and any sort of strong
connections to community (another claim of his title) 


I just think it's a little naive to say that wow, the
revolution is starting here, just because a bunch of
relatively small protests, strikes and other actions
are happening at universities.  

If we saw, say widespread huge protests at the
majority of univerisities accross the US now there you
have something, but this could be similar to last year
or two years ago for all we know (from reading the
article)  

There are also some other claims in the article that
are not founded.  Like saying "hundreds of thousands
of students, maybe millions" are actively involved in
counter recruitment is a pretty bold claim, and how
would he back this info up?

I'm not against trying to psych people up a bit but I
am against doing it with exaggerations and untruths.  

In addition, the bulk of this article is really about
two actions at Umass Amherst and yale-columbia. thus
it holds a misleading title in another way.

So I guess I block this article being centered at
all....


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