Reporting from Wellington, NZ. There is an ONZ going on at a smaller scale on a bridge in downtown Wellington. I just arrived from Tokyo via Auckland and my informant was a female taxi driver who gave me a quick tour of the city.
Cheers, Anthony On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:45 AM, michael perelman < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshavens 24B, 3.78 DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Ph: +45 3815 2572 *A NEW INDIA?* http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857286642.pdf *CONFERENCE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS IN INDIA AND CHINA* http://uk.cbs.dk/research/konferencer/psric *INTERVIEW China and India: Competition and Collaboration *(go to Research Themes/Economy) ad.int <http://cast.cbs.dk/#ad.int> 07-Jun-2011 http://uk.cbs.dk/arc http://www.thisismodernindia.com/this_is_modern_india_about_us.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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