That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.
Henry GirouxWe need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
Henry GirouxYoung children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.
Henry GirouxIf the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative communities, autonomous forms of worker control, collective forms of health care, models of direct democracy and emancipatory modes of education.
Henry GirouxUnder neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.
Henry GirouxYou don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all the policies that have been made in the last thirty years, 95% of them were in the interest of the rich and had nothing to do with what people wanted - basic services, roads, all of that. They called it an oligarchy.
Henry Giroux