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  Nick wrote a new blog post: Student Organizing: Lessons From Stony Brook   1 month, 2 weeks ago
  

  This past semester was my first real dive into full-time student organizing. I had been a supporter and outsider for various campaigns on campus throughout my college career, but it wasn’t until Spring 2010 that I really went all out.
  The PHEEIA (Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act), cuts to the SUNY system and tuition [...]

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  Nick wrote a new blog post: Building Community: Lessons From Mexico About Collective Living   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  The time I spent in Mexico City with the Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente (FPFVI), though short (four weeks), was incredibly eye opening and inspiring. By the end of the first weekend- having spoken with members of the community and given a very brief understanding of how the community was established- I wanted this for [...]

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  Nick commented on the blog post Capitalism’s Residue   5 months ago
  

  Oh, I’m actually a non-voter! Though, I don’t disparage those who use traditional channels of activism. I feel like our “democracy” is too far gone for such channels to be truly effective. My goal wasn’t to encourage bullshit reformism. I should look this over and edit it, though, if that’s the impression one takes from [...]

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  Nick posted a new status update:   5 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Left Forum was outstanding. Time to take some lessons from the weekend and apply them!

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  Nick wrote a new blog post: Capitalism’s Residue   6 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  I’m uneasy.
  For all the literature on capitalism’s effect upon society, the left seems to lack an understanding of how it affects our psyche. We can rant and rave about capitalist alienation, community destruction, socio-economic stratification all day long but these understandings are useless without a basic understanding of how the very way we think and [...]

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