thompsonkirk Posted September 25, 2009 Share #1  Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) A bit of reportage:  Today the students, staff, & faculty of the University of California held a protest on all campuses against budget cuts, and these are photographs of the picket line & demonstration at UC Berkeley.  I feel strongly about this issue: Bad as the state's finances may be, I believe it's unacceptable for a public university to raise tuition to over $10K a year (plus living expenses!). This undermines the whole idea of 'a career open to talents' & of equal opportunity. In practice it will mean higher education open to the middle class & above.  I'm happy to have your comments about the photos, even if you don't sympathize with my view.  Kirk  M8u, 21 f2.8 Biogon & 35mm Summicron v1  PS: Sorry about the color of the Megaphone Man. I'll have to work on that one. Edited September 25, 2009 by thompsonkirk PS Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 25, 2009 Posted September 25, 2009 Hi thompsonkirk, Take a look here Justifiable protest. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
thompsonkirk Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share #2 Â Posted September 25, 2009 OK, here's a less-green megaphone man & another image about 'Crisis of Priorities.' Â Kirk Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdb Posted September 25, 2009 Share #3 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Great reportage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marquinius Posted September 25, 2009 Share #4 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Kirk, Â I think you make an outstanding ambassador for their case, in word and picture. What is it that makes "us" think that cutting back on tuition (or raising the fees) is a smart move? It shows that we're still talking about short term goals. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldophoto Posted September 25, 2009 Share #5 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Interesting reportage, well done. Â You're touching an hot spot: here in Italy we are facing similar problems... similar narrow minded point ov view on the future, I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted September 25, 2009 Share #6 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Kirk - Â Superb PJ set, and please send the woman in the red dress and long pony tail over for an interview. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme_hutton Posted September 25, 2009 Share #7  Posted September 25, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Great topic of universal inportance. Here we have quite restricted fees with no 'top-up' as in England so as such we are feeling the financial squeeze institutionally. It really is a rock and a hard place!  Good to see activism.....our students are so passive by comparison.  Best  Graeme Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted September 25, 2009 Share #8 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Kirk -Â Superb PJ set, and please send the woman in the red dress and long pony tail over for an interview. Â Mind-reader. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguewave Posted September 25, 2009 Share #9 Â Posted September 25, 2009 What is needed is some real 60's style protesting. Make it impossible for the Chancellors to face the public. This looks docile with small crowds and little umph. Where's Mark Rudd when you need a leader? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauribix Posted September 25, 2009 Share #10 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Oh, San Francisco's colours... Actually I guess Ben is right... where is the anger??? BTW, Kirk, you did a great work here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptarmigan Posted September 25, 2009 Share #11 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Nice series. Love the reworked shot of the megaphone man! Â Can't help wondering what they'd look like in mono. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thompsonkirk Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share #12 Â Posted September 25, 2009 Thank you everyone for your photo & political-economic comments. Â Ian, that's an interesting question. IMO only a few looked as good or better in BW.: partly because the 'riotous' colors of the scene seemed to go with the subject matter; partly because it was hard to sort out the different parts of different bodies without the color-coding of clothing; & partly because red seemed to be a prominent color for the strike (lots of red arm bands). Â So the whole series 'asked' to be a color series. But here are a couple of BWs that looked OK: Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurpreston Posted September 25, 2009 Share #13 Â Posted September 25, 2009 A lot to say about this, for sure. First of all, GREAT PHOTOS: I think they all look good in color, especially #5. I'm glad I started my grandson's 529 plan a year ago, when he was born. Hopefully, when he's 18 or so, he'll be able to afford at least one semester in the UC system ($100K/semester by then, at the current rate of increase??). Just five years ago, his mom attended UCSB and it was around $1300/semester without housing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wls.shanghai Posted September 25, 2009 Share #14 Â Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) good series! Â the reason: Â many US-University`s incl. Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley etc. lost big money with gambling at the casinos (stock exchanges etc.) Â they are just like greedy gambler (zocker) Â now the students must pay the bill from the gambler... Â very very very strange & crazy world..... Â wls Edited September 25, 2009 by wls.shanghai Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauledell Posted September 26, 2009 Share #15 Â Posted September 26, 2009 Kirk, Â I think your pictures are tops for photojournalism. I can understand the frustration over this situation. Politics rules everywhere. Â Paul Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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