This petition has collected173 signaturesusing the online tools at iPetitions.comPrinted on 10-07-2011

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Columbia University and Barnard College in Solidarity withOccupy Wall Street

About the petitionWe, Columbia and Barnard faculty, write in solidarity with and in support of the Occupy Wall Street movementnow underway in our city and elsewhere. Many observers claim that the movement has no specific goals; this isnot our understanding. The movement aims to bring attention to the various forms of inequality – economic,political, and social – that characterize our times, that block opportunities for the young and strangle the hopes forbetter futures for the majority while generating vast profits for a very few. The demonstrators are demandingsubstantive change that redresses the many inequitable features of our society, which have been exacerbated bythe financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession. Among these are: the lack of accountability on the partof the bankers and Wall Street firms that drove the economy to disaster; rising economic inequality in the UnitedStates; the intimate relationship between corporate power and government at all levels, which has made genuinechange impossible; the need for dramatic action to provide employment for the jobless; the protection of programssuch as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in part by requiring the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes;the disastrous effects of the costly wars that the United States has been conducting overseas since 2001. Only byidentifying the complex interconnections between repressive economic, social and political regimes can social andeconomic justice prevail in this country and around the globe. It is this identification that we applaud, and we callon all members of the Columbia community to lend their support to this peaceful and potentially transformativemovement.

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Signatures

1. Name: Paige West on Oct 06, 2011Comments:2. Name: Nadia Urbinati on Oct 06, 2011Comments: I am very happy to sign it.3. Name: Bashir Abu-Manneh on Oct 06, 2011Comments:4. Name: Frederick Neuhouser on Oct 06, 2011Comments:5. Name: Dorian Warren on Oct 06, 2011Comments:6. Name: Tovah Klein on Oct 06, 2011Comments:7. Name: Gregory Mann on Oct 06, 2011Comments:8. Name: Sharon Schwartz on Oct 06, 2011Comments:9. Name: Lee Anne Bell on Oct 06, 2011Comments:10. Name: Gregory M. Pflugfelder on Oct 06, 2011Comments:11. Name: Elizabeth Castelli on Oct 06, 2011Comments:12. Name: William Sharpe on Oct 06, 2011Comments:13. Name: Courtney Bender on Oct 06, 2011Comments:14. Name: Professor Christopher Baswell on Oct 06, 2011Comments:15. Name: Frances Richard on Oct 06, 2011Comments:16. Name: Charles Armstrong on Oct 06, 2011Comments:17. Name: Nadia Abu El-Haj on Oct 06, 2011Comments:

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