Truest statement of the week

Thank you for asking us what we think. As a student-activist, it's much nicer to be posed these questions, than the one I heard most often from 2004-2006: "When will the students do their part?" Well, here we are.

-- Chris Dols in what Betty dubs a "Say it again, amen!" moment, from Ron Jacobs' "Sitting In On Senator Kohl and the War-A Conversation With Antiwar Students" (ZNet). See, Jacobs did the unthinkable: He spoke with students. He spoke with Josh Brielmaier, Todd Dennis, Zach Heise, Bernadette Watts and Chris Dols about the activism they're taking part in as opposed to sitting at his desk, thumbing through The New York Times and, seeing no coverage of student activism to stop the war, deciding to write another tired, false column on "Kids today, oy vey, are they apathetic!" He actually went out and found the topic he's writing about. If it were a crime not to do so, you'd have a number of journalists behind bars right now.