Cornel West Is Arrested During Protest at U.S. Supreme Court Building

October 16, 2011, 9:35 pm

Cornel West, a university professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, was arrested on Sunday while protesting on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, the Associated Press reported. He was among 19 people who were arrested after they refused to leave the court grounds. Mr. West, who has encouraged demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York and similar rallies elsewhere, is one of a number of academics who have influenced the movement’s intellectual underpinnings and its decentralized, participatory style of decision-making.

Updated, 10/17/2011: Prosecutors agreed on Monday not to press charges against Mr. West or the others arrested at the Supreme Court building on Sunday.

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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RSRD4KFLLVQHEM4QYHLLFBQR6M chaz

Hopefully more will soon converge on Washington. What we need now is to send a message to both political parties that their policies are corrupt, determined only by money and greed.
chandrak

Cornel West, a professor at Princeton University, jointed the protest. The protest doesn’t make sense. How is it going to balance the budget and create jobs? Many protesters have their own agenda and it is not going to succeed, in real sense.
boiler

Good idea. I’ll bet they’ve never heard a protest group say that before. Once they hear it, they’ll reform themselves in no time, and everything will be all better.
11188056

At least the protestors are willing to voice their opinions in an open forum, and show political parties that Americans who are unhappy with the way things are going.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653500959 Mies Martin

These are all excellent suggestions. I particularly like your point about the importance to avoid confusing the tools (apps) used for organization from productivity. I think it is inevitable that any organizational construct requires a refreshing, a spring cleaning. At some point any organizational system becomes stale and loses its efficacy. Our needs change or the way we need to do something requires a different approach. It is at this times we need to refresh our approach and techniques. Still I think your three points identify underlying universal givens that any organizational system must have.