I wish I would have been informed of the CUNY BA program years ago. What college student wouldn't want the freedom of creating their major while taking classes at various institutions? Being anchored to a single campus can become, well, boring. This boredom may serve a purpose as it prepares you pretty well for the work world where you will most likely see the same building every day, while bumping into the same people over and over again. If I could make up my own major it would have been Guerilla Warfare Studies, or something of the sort. I am attracted to the idea that somewhere in the world there are small groups of people standing up to enormous tyrannical states, for both positive and negative reasons, ready to engage in the War of the Flea (Robert Taber coined the term).
Today we see Spanish miners attempting to hold on to the idea that dying on one's feet is preferred over dying on one's knees. The situation may not be that severe as this is somewhat of a stand off between police and miners with no deaths reported. But, the ideal is there. Spanish miners holding off the encroachment of police, the state, and the impending shutting down of mines, have resorted to building makeshift rocket launchers out of hollow pipes from which fireworks are shot. Yes, fireworks.
Irony: the U.S. recently celebrated the 4th of July amidst colorful explosions in the sky created by the same gun powder filled projectiles that Spanish miners are using to defend their livelihood.
I stand in solidarity with Spanish miners who have refused to back down and lose an estimated 30,000 jobs. If makeshift rocket launchers coupled with strategic savvy were something you did not expect from miners you are not alone. I'm sure Spanish police and state didn't see this coming either.
-Alex
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