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October 18, 2011
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Volume 108, Issue 15
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‘OCCUPY’ MOVEMENT
‘WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT’ Nationwide protest comes to Cedar Falls
RACHEL ZIDON Staff Writer
Two hundred University of Northern Iowa students and Cedar Falls community members added their voices to growing worldwide protests against corporate greed in a rally and march on Oct. 15. The events were sparked by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City, where protesters have been staying a few blocks from Wall Street in Zuccotti Park since Sept. 17. Since then, similar “Occupy” protests have sprung up around the country and the world, from Iowa City to Sydney, Australia. The movement has generally sought to call attention to See PROTEST, page 2
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Chris Schwartz (left), who helped organize Occupy Cedar Falls, protests corporate greed and other issues with UNI students and Cedar Falls community members on Oct. 15.
REACHING FOR HIGHER GROUND
CAMPUS EVENTS
UNI STAND Edelman emphasizes need to end child poverty holds Congo Advancement of Colored People Week events during the Voter Education “Where is our human herd? Where is our community?” - Marian Wright Edelman
DANIELLE KRULL Staff Writer
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, began her lecture “The Future of Our Children in a Post-9/11 World” by sharing her personal story of 9/11. Edelman was at an interfaith service of Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews and people from other religions in Atlanta, Ga. When she received the news about the towers being hit, she said she felt “the world spinning out of control.” Edelman, who spoke at the University of Northern Iowa on Oct. 14, was the first AfricanAmerican woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar Association and worked as an attorney for the National Association for the
Project of the Civil Rights Movement. During that time, she worked with Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. After 9/11, Edelman went to Ground Zero to watch the cleanup. She said that during the cleanup “there was no gender, no race, but everyone helping each other.” Edelman believes that people should be more worried about the fact that children in the United States, one of the wealthiest nations in the world, are living in extreme poverty without receiving education or health care, rather than worrying that children are living in a world of fear of terrorism from overseas. One in five children lives in See EDELMAN, page 3
AJ CASSIDY Staff Writer
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Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, speaks during her lecture “The Future of Our Children in a Post-9/11 World” at the University of Northern Iowa on Oct. 14.
The University of Northern Iowa chapter of the Student-Led Division of the Genocide Intervention Network, a genocide prevention and awareness group, is hosting a week of events regarding the violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United Nations has named the conflict in the DRC the deadliest since World War II. Since 1998, 5.4 million people have died as a result of war, disease and malnutrition. Each See CONGO WEEK, page 3