Occupy Your Mind: Student Activism and the Global Fight for Public Education Public Event · By Bob Glidden Friday 7:00pm until 10:30pm The September Occupy Your Mind event will be held in the William Pitt Union (Meeting Room 548) on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh (3959 5th Ave @ Bigelow Blvd) Students have been a key part of the protests emerging around the world. In London, Mexico, Chile, Quebec, and elsewhere, student protests against tuition hikes and against political repression have disrupted business as usual. This month’s OYM event will feature student protesters from Montreal, who are embroiled in a massive strike that...See More William Pitt Union 3959 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 View Map · Get Directions Alexandra Oliver is going. Like · · Follow Post · 10 hours ago Ben Ogrodnik is going. Like · · Follow Post · Yesterday at 5:42pm Alexandra Oliver likes this. James Allen Kindler is going. Like · · Follow Post · Yesterday at 2:41pm Bob Glidden Also joining in the discussion on Friday evening -- please help spread the word by inviting friends and colleagues: Newsmaker: Lex Gill, head of Concordia Student Union montreal.ctvnews.ca The head of the Concordia Student Union offers her take on the tuition protests and how they have been handled. Like · · Follow Post · Share · Yesterday at 2:23pm nearPittsburgh Andrew Swagner, Laura Wiens and Sarah Hakimzadeh like this. Options Dennis M Sullivan is going. Like · · Follow Post · Yesterday at 9:25am Jarrett Brown and 2 other people are going. Like · · Follow Post · Sunday at 6:00pm Chenchen Huang is going. Like · · Follow Post · Sunday at 8:52am Dean Mougianis is going. Like · · Follow Post · September 3 at 9:57am Vincent Scotti Eirene is going. Like · · Follow Post · September 2 at 10:53pm Carol J. Gonzalez Sounds great, thanks for the heads up. i have a prior commitment that evening, but will try to juggle such that i can be with you for a portion of this gathering. Peace. Like · · Follow Post · September 2 at 1:22pm Options Jon Clark and Jessie Mark are going. Like · · Follow Post · August 31 at 11:55am Bob Glidden Using SKYPE - we’ll be joined by members of the Social Struggle Committee of L'ASSÉ Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante ( ASSÉ ) L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ) est une organisation de type syndical qui regroupe, à l’échelle du Québec, près de 55 000 membres dans plusieurs associations étudiantes à la fois collégiales et universitaires d’un bout à l’autre du Québec. Elle incarne, aujourd’hui, la c... Page: 10,009 like this Like · · Follow Post · August 31 at 11:40am near Pittsburgh Options Mel Packer is going. Like · · Follow Post · August 31 at 11:03am Heyy Quinn is going. Like · · Follow Post · August 30 at 7:05pm Julie Radomski is going. Like · · Follow Post · August 30 at 5:17pm James Simkins is going. Like · · Follow Post · August 30 at 2:48pm Rosemary McMullen and Donna McDermott are going. Like · · Follow Post · August 30 at 11:41am Calvin K Skinner Jr and 2 other people are going. Like · · Follow Post · August 29 at 11:43pm Rebecca Altes is going. Like · · Follow Post · August 29 at 8:22pm Sarah Hakimzadeh is going. Like · · Follow Post · August 29 at 6:10pm Don Carpenter this will be livestreamed at www.tinyurl.com/occupyyourmind Like · · Follow Post · August 29 at 5:47pm near Pittsburgh Ted Rodgers, Dante Odorisio and Benjamin Eckert like this. Options Don Carpenter and 4 other people are going. Like · · Follow Post · August 29 at 5:03pm Bob Glidden created the event. Like · · Follow Post · August 29 at 4:54pm Lauren Stuparitz likes this. Mary Beth Steisslinger, MS - Integral Systems Biologist Global Commons Trust, Commons Action for the UN www.globalcommonstrust.org School of Commoning, http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/ Future of Occupy: http://thefutureofoccupy.org marybeth.steisslinger@gmail.com THE COMMONS, n., gifts of nature and society; the wealth we inherit or create together and must pass on, undiminished or enhanced, to our children; a sector of the economy that complements and counterweights the corporate sector. Civic-based commons governance provides a check and balance to the corporate drive for profit and undue influence on government.