College students to "Occupy" Boston

Emily McArthur of Jamaica Plain, Mass., chants through a bullhorn in front of the Statehouse as part of an Occupy Boston demonstration on Oct. 3, 2011. The size of anti-Wall Street rallies held in the Boston area have grown in the past week. / AP Photo/Josh Reynolds

BOSTON - Students from 10 area colleges are planning to join the Occupy Wall Street movement with a march through downtown Boston.

The protesters plan to gather Monday at 1:30 p.m. on Boston Common and then march with members of Occupy Boston, MASSUniting, labor unions and other community groups to Dewey Square, where a tent city has been erected.

Correspondent Carl Stevens of CBS Radio Station WBZ reports that some students have already camped out through the weekend, and more than a thousand students are anticipated from Northeastern, BU, MIT, Tufts, Emerson and others.

Student protesters said are they angry with an education industry they say mimics what they call the "irresponsible, unaccountable, and unethical financial practices" of Wall Street.

They point to what they say are university presidents earning hundreds of thousands of dollars while other university workers struggle to make ends meet.

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Today's demonstration follows a rally on Saturday in which several hundred union members joined Occupy Boston in a march to the Federal Reserve building.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, which began with a small knot of protesters in Manhattan's financial district, has grown steadily, with similar protests springing up in other cities.

For more info:

• occupywallstreet.org
• occupytogether.org
• collegesoccupyboston.com
• We Are the 99 Percent (tumblr)

[DenverBroncofan]

That was my point from day 1 regarding this mob wanna be protest...It's just a matter of time before the looting begins which will quickly point out this was all for nothing

[tsigili]

Funny about college students. They haven't actually held a job, they haven't actually had responsibility for anything beyond homework, and they have never managed a household budget. In fact, they have to ask mom and dad for everything, including their cell phones, smart phones, computers, cars, and spending money.

Yet, they seem to think they know something about the economy?????

Let's be realistic, these kids are spoiled, idealistic, and foolish. Their parents have to worry about them, every minute.

They have zero knowledge of politics, economics, or even just how to pay rent. Allowing them to set the tone of what is best for this country, is like playing Russian Roulette.

[mpayn]

Wow.

So okay -- The young people of the Arab Spring that peacefully gathered to impact corrupt regimes are heros, but the ones here in the U.S. are misguided, spolied brats? Mmmmmm.

I think that they are rightfully worried about the future: their own, that of democracy, and that of the planet. They are expressing their anger at the spoiled, foolish and corrupt older folks that have a firm and paralyzing choke hold on U.S. political, economic and social systems and policy -- inhibiting those foolish ideals -- fairness and justice.

I for one, am inspired and encouraged by these young people. They have not succombed to the cynicism and fatalism that too often afflicts us wise, older ones.

Go OCCUPY Boston.. Wall Street... and Beyond!

P.S. The folks joining the protests grow greyer by the day!