An Artist/Student Story

anayfack

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Monday October 17, 2011 · 11:50 PM PDT

2011/10/17 · 23:50

This is my little connection to the OWS protests, and it comes from my younger brother. He moved to NY 2 months ago to chase his dream of choreagraphing and directing in the theater. This is something he has dedicated his life to. He is the definition of the starving artist, albeit one with a PhD and massive amounts of student debt on top of that. Last weekend he went to add his voice to the OWS movement, with a small hand written sign protesting the massive debt current college grads are saddled with. A photo of him was picked up on The Daily News blog of the protests and from there a blog post was written on Legalinsurrection.com (http://legalinsurrection.com/...). The blog is by a conservative law professor at Cornell, who has the usual lack of insight one finds in the defenders of the 1%. I am not writing this to call attention to his hack blog, but rather to my brother's eloquent response and defense of the arts and of student debt foregiveness. I've included it in it's entirety below.

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