Please Help Save My College

Oh, yeah....I signed a few days ago. Sorry about the late post.

Signed .

Progresshiv,
I tried all 3 links and I can't get through. I really want to sign this. I'll try again tomorrow morning.

I couldn't get through either of the above two links - I'll keep trying.

Signed !! Great post.

Thanks for the Heads-up.
Signed by me.

Couldn't sign the other day....the link went nuts. Signed and commented today.

This link works for me, so I hope it will work for you

http://www.change.org/petitions/save-astorias-college

Just signed and also had to copy link to browser. I also teach at a community college and realize that it could be our school next, with the insanity of politics right now...

GOOD LUCK!!!!

The link was not working via Current. I had to cut and paste it into a new tab on my browser. Then it worked and I signed.

SIGNED

Signed.

that place is beautiful Prog....will sign, and if Spanish is an area of focus, I wonder if you could get some exposure for your cause, and/or help, via the Congressional Hispanic Caucus....worth a try: http://chc-gonzalez.house.gov/

and the Institute:
http://www.chci.org/

As an Oregon citizen, I will gladly support this petition.

Please be advised that I cannot access your link, but I'll keep trying. Maybe it's busy with many others trying to sign it, too.

You have my support!

$900,000 -- put that in perspective with the 4.5 million Chase gave NYPD to put down the OWS protest.
Pwr 2 the 99%! Dismember the 1% and their political WHORES!

Broke my current KB723 boycott for ya, Progresshiv. Signed. ;)

Consider it done. I hope it helps.

Here's what one of my friends (and a colleague) said about why it's vital to keep this college and others like italive:

"Because the loss/breakdown of the community college system represents the loss of America's egalitarian ideals.

There are political orientations, which I do not share, that represent a Darwinian view. People holding this view are able to feel comfortable with the huge disparities between social groups and individuals on the basis of the belief that they deserve their privileged position in society. Some feel that they have earned their position through their life choices, while others seem to feel that the efforts of their ancestors warrant their position.

I would argue that this is psychological ploy which allows people to feel moral while skirting important social duties such as paying appropriate taxes, but I offer the following argument to anyone arguing for a Darwinian society.
If you wish to feel smug in thinking that others have "struck out" during their "turn at bat", and you wish to feel moral while ignoring the plight of your less financially successful brethren through a belief that they have "chosen not to play", then you must ensure that our society offers every individual the opportunity to "step up to the plate". This is one of the many roles of a community college.

Community colleges then add to their traditional roles as community centers, and springboards to a better life/better community, by becoming the element of our society that allows those with Darwinian worldviews to form an argument to support their social complacency."