Scholarships from bookstore profits should not fall below the rate they have been for the past 30 years when the school ran it. Book buy-back rates should not fall below what they have been for the past 30 years. I made these demands knowing that my fellow IWW members at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, UCLA and Harvard, and my fellow workers at the SFCC bookstore, stand with me. We were flat-out ignored, but people will only allow you to ignore them for so long. Eventually, begging becomes pleading.
Pleas become demands.
Demands become threats. And threats become action. People do not like privatization. We are aware of the threat it poses to our livelihoods, our independent voices and our communities. Jason Adams is a work-study student at Santa Fe Community College.