Music filled the air in the student union plaza, along with the aroma of tantalizing cuisine, in an effort to register people to vote. The United Faculty held a rally on Oct. 16 to encourage the most under-registered sector of our so-ciety, those who are between the ages of 18 - 24, to partici-pate in democracy.

Jeffrey Michaels, president of the faculty union said about the intent of the event, “The driving motivation for us is really quite simple. If Proposition 30 and Measure A pass in November, this District will begin to heal, and if they fail, we are doomed.”

Michaels added, “Commu-nity colleges [students] don’t vote because they are not engaged yet. We are trying to engage them….”

Gordon Miller of MoveOn.

org was onsite registering people to vote. When asked if MoveOn.org would con-tinue to work with the faculty union in the future Miller said, “I suspect we have a broad ar-ray of common interests and would be glad to work with them in the future.”

Entertainment was pro-vided by music students who volunteered their time and talent for the effort. The mu-sical aspect was responsible for drawing attention to the event.

Danielle Carmody, a stu-dent in attendance, said she was at the duck pond when she heard the band playing and came to enjoy the free food and atmosphere.

Carmody admitted she had not registered to vote and stated the reason was, “Because I’m not really keep-ing up with…the Presidents and… the props… I don’t

really know what they are….”Culinary arts student Au-

drey Pastones, who was serv-ing food at the event said, “We asked a lot of people if they were registered so hope-fully it’ll get the word out to go and vote.”

The rally to encourage participatory democracy was

funded in part by the Fac-ulty Association of California Community Colleges and was co-sponsored by Classified Staff Local 1 Union.

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Mark Van Holt premiered the first DVC student created 3D film, “Back to 1970,” on Oct. 16. The short film highlights the real-world struggle of Elizabeth Wilson who lost her children over 42 years ago.

First student 3D film reaches new depths

HAKEEM MONTESEditor in chief

The first ever DVC student-created 3D movie premiered on Oct. 18 in the media lab on campus. The international student who directed it, who goes by the professional

name, Mark Van Holt, readily admits that he is, “…obsessed with 3D movies,” so the deci-sion to make his first film in this format was an easy one.

“I’m hoping to make from now on only 3D movies,” said Van Holt.

The short documentary film, “Back to 1970”, was based on the true account of Martinez resident Elizabeth Wilson’s struggle to keep her children.

After Wilson had her first child at 15, it became over-whelmingly difficult for her to support herself and children. Wilson had no other op-tion but to have them move in with a wealthy family who could provide the needed re-sources for them.

It has been over 42 years since Wilson has seen or heard from her estranged children. Wilson had not spo-ken of this incident to anyone until just recently.

Wilson is a friend of Van Holt and when she shared her story with him he was com-pelled to make a film about her experience.

Film professor Tal Skloot said, “I like that the script was very well developed. It wasn’t overly sentimental, you know it could have been like teary and it wasn’t….”

Not everyone was a fan of

the 3D effect. Edgar Vega said, “It was

difficult to view it… my eyes just really started hurting.” Vega continues by explaining how he was touched by the film.

“I was with you most of the time we shot this…the way you put it together with the music and all the shots you decided to put in, emo-tionally I was there…I felt it,” said Vega.

Though 3D films usually cater to action and suspense audiences, Van Holt felt the film was perfect for 3D so that it would bring a greater visual depth to the emotion-ally-stirring story.

Van Holt is intending to transfer to University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles or the University of Southern Clai-fornia in fall of 2013 where he will continue his pursuit of 3D film making.

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Professor Jeremy Cloward is making his run as an In-dependent candidate for the Pleasant Hill City Council.

Cloward is a part-time teacher of political science and a long time Pleasant Hill resident, has attended schools throughout the Pleasant Hill and is a DVC alum.

Cloward is running on a platform which raises money for Pleasant Hill schools to fund programs, teachers and daycares in elementary and middle schools.

Cloward wishes to not raise taxes on citizens but wishes to call for the council to pass an ordinance that would tax 1% of sales revenues of Multina-tional Corporations in Pleas-ant Hill.

“This would allow them to be ‘responsible corporate citizens’; an opportunity to give back in a meaningful way. Austerity is happening in Greece but its happening right here in Pleasant Hill.”

Cloward said he would, “Emphasize that which is needed to benefit the most

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Student filmaker Mark Van Holt, right, tells a story of pain and struggle in “Back to 1970” 3D film.

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Veteran’s Club President Ian Kearns, right, is photgraphed while serving overseas.

Veteran’s Club serves soldiers

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Gordan Miller, second from right, with MoveOn.org registers students to vote.

Aiming to gather veterans on campus to inform about rights that are offered to them, in addition to infor-mation on transferring, the DVC Veterans Club hopes to provide a sense of solidarity and camaraderie between its members to help them ac-climate to civilian life from a military background.

Apart from the Veterans Club, the only service that is currently available on campus for veterans is The Veterans Affairs Office, which opens from Monday through Thurs-day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ac-cording to Ian Kearns, Presi-dent of The DVC Veterans Club, “We need more services on campus for veterans.”

When asked about the ser-vices DVC provides for vet-erans, Niall Smith, the Vice President of the club, said, “I do have a complaint about the hours of the Veterans Office.” Because Smith is in classes 20 hours a week, it is challenging for him to get into the time period. “Why is it only a four hour service?” he asked. “The time that the office is open is not enough.”

Denver Cortez, a member of the Veterans Club, said that the services are “frustrat-ing because they are so mini-mal and inconsistent in how useful they are.” As a veteran,

he feels that “we do more re-search among ourselves and through outside sources than the information we can get from here.”

Kearns said that the Veter-an’s Club needs to have more members as there are “more veterans on campus than we think there are” He also add-ed that civilians can also get involved by having students, teachers, and the administra-tion help push for the veter-ans.

Cortez feels that they have outstanding support from their faculty advisors: Jason Carrick, David Vela, and Dennis Franco. “They are su-perb at what they do,” Cortez remarked. “Jason is also a vet-eran, and has gone through what we went through, [he is] an asset and a great thing to have.”

Carrick said what he enjoys most about being the advi-sor for the club is “Watching them grapple the complex-ity of reintegrating back into civilian life, which takes the kind of courage that’s not ap-parent to someone who hasn’t done it before.” Within the members, he observes “a de-sire to adopt the democratic process to really be a part of it in a vital and active way…the adoption of the values of inclusiveness and transparen-cy, [and] their desire to build a

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community of veterans who can support each other in both academic and interper-sonal ways.”

Vela became an advisor for the club because he truly ad-mires veterans. He earnestly wants them to develop as both leaders and individuals. Pos-sessing a connection with the

veterans he has encountered in his classes and on campus, he said, “I don’t know why but we understand each other on a gut level…it moves me.” Vela also mentions that although he is an advisor for the club, there is no hierarchy involved at all — “there is no more separation by rank, and every-thing is inclusive.”

Ian Kearns said that he en-joys being a part of the Vet-erans Club as “everyone who comes to meetings put an ef-fort…they want to see it suc-ceed in the future and want it to be carried on for future se-mesters.” Denver Cortez also added that, “the main benefit of being part of the club is to be with…people you know that you have a shared expe-rience with.” Cortez also said that he “knew a veteran last year who had a severe flash-back…He tracked me down [so that] he could share an ex-perience with someone who knew what he was talking about.”

Meeting with Cortez calmed him down and made him refocus to the present as opposed to remembering the flashbacks. “One thing good about it is that someone to talk to who knows what you have been through. Not to take away from counseling that some of us go through, but when someone knows ex-

actly what you’re talking about instead of a complete outsid-er. You can be more relaxed and forthright.”

Kerns agreed with Cortez and added, “We can’t walk around campus and walk up to some dude and talk about what we’re going through.”

Cortez also said, “[If you] break up with girlfriends or boyfriends, you can talk to anyone, because everyone has gone through a breakup…

whereas only a select few can talk about military experi-ence.”

Kearns said that meeting the veterans through the club was a chance for him to gain awareness. Prior to attend-ing DVC, he did not know the friends that he have made from the club, and sometimes during the meetings they will bring across information that he did not know about. “They have knowledge that I don’t have on hand at that time.”

Being a part of the Veterans Club has also helped Cortez through a sense of “unity and stability,” which Niall Smith also agrees with. Smith said that he has built “a sense of friendship” and now has the opportunity to “ask questions to people who have done this before me.” From the con-nections to veterans in UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University who have been in DVC, they are able to communicate to the current members about the obstacles and roadblocks that they went through before getting where they are today.

The DVC Veterans Club also has plans to collaborate with the Muslim Student As-sociation. According to Smith, these plans are aimed to “rid stereotypes with both groups and bring unity.” Cortez said that they want to “build true

rapport with the Muslim As-sociation…to enlighten the student body on the issues facing the Muslim association and the Veterans.”

When asked about what they want people to know about the Veterans Club, Cor-tez says that “What I want people to know are, if you’re a veteran, there is a group out there for you that can help you, and that you’re not alone.”

He also said that “The com-munity at large has a sense of supporting the veterans when they are away, but not when they are back home” He urges the community to “do some-thing to help us, not just talk about it.”

As an advisor for the club, Carrick mentions that he would like more people to know about the club’s ex-istence, as “there are many more veterans on campus than are currently attending the club, [and he] would like to tell them that they are very welcome.” Niall Smith also welcomes civilians to attend their meetings and see things from their perspectives, so they have an understanding of what their issues are.

With regards to veterans on campus, Vela said, “They are here, let’s welcome them, let’s encourage them, and let’s help them with their transition with some of very incredible things that we didn’t live or experience through. They’re a part of our community, and we will only grow.”

The DVC Veterans Club meets Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Club Room SU-202C.

Sunday Oct 7

A Contra Costa Commu-nity College District Police Vehicle was burglarized off campus. Monday Oct 15 7:10 PM A small fire in a campus bathroom was reported to have been set deliberately.

Thursday Oct 18 12:19 PM A student was placed under citizen’s arrest for taking food items from the bookstore without paying for them.

Thursday Oct 18 1:15 PM A student walked out on an exterior ledge of a campus building before being ordered to come down by police. Student confirmed he was commit-ting a prank. The student was referred to the Dean of Student Services.

Saturday Oct 20

A vehicle was left over night in lot 3. The follow-ing day the officers found the vehicle with all four tires removed. The owner was contacted and the vehicle was towed at the owner’s expense.

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nual sales revenue would raise about $75,000 per Mul-tinational Corporation. The money would go into schools where they could decide how they would spend it.

Cloward explains money raised from the tax would benefit the K-12 system and would allow the Pleasant Hill District “to hire more teach-ers, librarians, counselors, to buy new books and comput-ers, and to restore diminished or eliminated programs in our arts, trades and sports pro-grams.”

Another issue that has been taken up by Cloward and a few other candidates in the race is online Gun Dealers in Pleas-ant Hill. Although not initially against online gun dealers, he is against the idea of an “un-limited stock”. Cloward said that this is “probably not a good idea” for Pleasant Hill

residents. Cloward received an en-

dorsement from Brady Cam-paign, a group dedicated to working towards gun control and reducing gun violence.

Other notable endorse-ments came from Project Censored, a media freedom group that operates out of colleges across the world.

Project Censored Director, Mickey Huff, is a full-time professor of History at DVC. The Project Censored Face-book page liked the “Jeremy Cloward for Pleasant Hill City Council” Facebook page in a online display of support.

Endorsements did not

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Coming off a decisive home floor win against Modesto, the Vikings struggled on the road, losing a tough match at American River. On Wednesday Oct. 17, the Vikings returned to their friendly confines to host yet another tough Big 8 rival, the Consumes River Hawks, winning in three sets.

“They’re a scrappy team,” head coach Jackie Ponciano-Babb said of the Consumes squad, with obvious respect for the Hawks and their tough front-court, led by Marquesa Harris and Rose Koloamatangi. Prior to the game, coach Ponciano-Babb empha-sized the importance of a win and set out to “Dic-tate our play.”

The first set was fierce-ly contested on both sides, the Hawks taking control of momentum early by establishing a lead. Just as the momen-tum began to run away to the visitors’ side of the net, Vikings’ Abbie

Noland made her pres-ence felt in a big way to irrevocably turn the mo-mentum. Lindsay Wood also played a pivotal role at the net, winning jousts against Consumes’ star blockers to swing the mo-mentum towards DVC’s favor. While the set was competitive throughout, Noland’s service over-powered the Hawks, re-sulting in a final score for 25-20 to DVC.

In the second set, it was Lindsay Wood who led the charge early, quickly driving the wind out from under the Hawks’ collec-tive wings by making sure that nothing was easy at the net. Despite her ef-fort, the Hawks rallied back, scoring five unan-swered kills on a long ser-vice. The final score of the set was 25-13, DVC.

Ponciano-Babb praised Noland’s consistency serving the ball, giving credit to her ability to read opposing defenses. Noland in turn credited her team’s blocking after the win, saying that the Vikings “Did well with our chances.”

Noland came out strong from the strong side of the floor at the start of the third set, to the delight of the home crowd. There was no let down from the Hawks, who fought hard until the final horn sounded. A service rally from Sandra Foster proved to be too much for the Hawks, who got caught out of position a few times, shifting coverage

to Noland’s side, leading to a 25-17 DVC set and match. “We wanted to be able to dominate,” Pon-ciano-Babb said of the team’s goals going into a divisional game. “We’re always looking to domi-nate.”

Their next game is on Friday Oct. 26 where they will face Sierra College.

Abbie Noland, left, prepares to block a shot while Alyvia Melin, center, assists and Sheila Tuvell, right, looks on.

Vikings cuts Hawks’ wings

Lax leaves tourney 2-1

Vikings football extended their winning streak to four games with a 49-21 win against Reedley Col-lege on Oct. 12.

The game was close only at the beginning with DVC shutting out Reedley in the first half 20-0. De-spite a late-game surge by Reedley, the game was always with DVC.

“I thought the guys responded to a different type of athlete than we faced last week. You go from Monterrey where it’s a very ce-rebral team, a lot of scheme to what they do, to a team with… big, fast bodies,” said head coach Mike Darr. “It was great to see our guys match the intensity, match the physicality and match the speed.”

Vikings’ quarterback Quinn Kaehler led the offense against Reedley, throwing his 28th touch-down of the season, two more than Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers who threw 26 touchdowns with Butte College in his 2002 record-breaking season (Butte College Stats and Records).

Kaehler’s most impressive touchdown came after Reedley’s late-game run and put the final nail in the coffin. With 7:51 left in the fourth quarter, Kaehler connected with wide receiver André Lewis who took the ball 77 yards for a touchdown.

Sophomore running back CJ Best was another major contribu-tor to the Vikings’ offense. With

2:19 left in the third quarter, Best broke three Reedley defenders in a 58-yard touchdown run - the lon-gest run of the game. Best cred-ited his offensive line for providing blocking and room to run as well as his receivers for taking pressure off the running game.

Big plays by DVC’s defense, al-lowed for offensive breathing room. “The (defensive) line is the hardest working group in practice,” said sophomore defensive end Kyle Kragen on the d-line’s role in the win.

Sophomore cornerback Damon Collins also gave credit to the de-fensive line for keeping pressure on the pass rush. DVC’s only intercep-tion came at the end of the third quarter from Collins, who ran from within Reedley’s own 20-yard line for a touchdown giving the Vikings a 34-7 lead.

“We came out a little slow but we ended up getting together as a team for the first time this season,” said sophomore wide receiver Diante Jackson.

“I really want to improve on our pass coverage and... our penalties,” said freshman cornerback Malachi Harris. “We still have to take those away because we’re playing a re-ally good team in Siskiyous in two weeks.”

The Vikings’ will play College of Siskiyous Friday Oct. 26 at home.

The DVC lacrosse team came away from the Santa Clara University Tournament on Saturday 2-1 to give them a 7-3 record on the season.

The Vikings’ first opponent of the tournament would also be their toughest: the highly regarded Santa Clara Bron-cos. While the Vikings had emerged victorious the last time the two met, a combi-nation of the Broncos’ fierce offense and the Vikings’ lack of team cohesion resulted in a close 5-7 loss.

Things seemed promising at the start for the Vikings, with midfielder Gavin Cooke scoring the game’s first goal. The Vikings’ defense contin-ued to be the team’s strength, holding off the Broncos’ of-fense for most of the first half.

After a DVC penalty led to them playing a man down, Santa Clara was able to match DVC with a goal of their own. Both teams scored again

to bring the score 2-2 at the end of the first half.

Halftime allowed head coach Dean Wallahan to ad-dress key issues in the Vi-kings’ offense and revitalize them to play at a higher level. The previous two games against Sierra College and Pa-cific had failed to truly chal-lenge the Vikings, with Santa Clara being the first team since Simon Fraser to push the DVC offense.

Santa Clara scored twice within the first five minutes of the second half, and de-spite two back-to-back goals from the Vikings, the Bron-cos would take advantage of DVC’s failure to win ground balls and secure possession to score twice more. A com-bination of the Broncos’ defense and the Vikings’ of-fense would result in another Santa Clara goal, ending the game 5-7, Broncos.

Determined to bounce back, the Vikings entered their next game against Santa Cruz with renewed vigor.

However, while the Banana Slugs were not as competi-tive a team, the Vikings still struggled to find their foot-ing, scoring only three goals in the first half.

The second half saw DVC’s Cal Boone, Chris Banks, Ja-kob Ternes, and Jacob Mc-Intyre each scoring a goal to end the game 7-2, DVC.

The third and final game of the tournament against St. Mary’s College provided a chance for the Vikings to show improvement. The Vi-kings held a 4-0 record against St Mary’s in their previous four games, and it was clear that the Gaels would work hard to beat the Vikings.

Despite this, the Vikings struggled in the first half. While the defense played well, the team ended the half behind St Mary’s 2-1.

In the second half the Vi-kings finally pulled together as a team. The defense shut out St. Mary’s, and the of-fense was able to score three goals within the first five min-

utes of the half. “I think we realized how

poorly we played in the du-ration of the first half,” said midfielder Curtis Bowden. “I mean, one goal is less than ideal. But we put it together at half time and shut them down. We found our flow for the first time all day.”

St. Mary’s frustration with their lack of goals clearly showed when a St. Mary’s defender angrily stabbed Ternes in the stomach with his stick, winding him. The Vikings found revenge with four more goals – two of them by Ternes himself. The game ended on a high for the

Vikings, with a score of 8-2.“When our team clicks, I

doubt anyone we play can stop us,” admitted Bowden.

The Vikings’ next game is Saturday Oct. 27’s UC Davis tournament where they will play Cal, Chico and Davis.

SAMANTHA CHIU / The InquirerMidfielder Michael Wells, left, sets up a goal against Santa Clara while cap-tain and attackman Devon Bahary, right, prepares to assist.

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Stalkers and duck face makers, welcome to MySpace where it all started. Seems like the public isn’t excited about MySpace, but at least Justin Timberlake is. Timberlake, the so-called “mascot” of the team, is helping new owners Chris and Tim Van-derhook bring MySpace back into the spotlight.

News Corporation sold MySpace last year for $35 million. The Vanderhook brothers teamed up with Timberlake and bought the company, even when they knew the con-ditions the site was in, and de-cided to turn it around.

“I always thought MySpace was better than Facebook. I think it’s kind of cool and surprising. I’d probably delete my Face-book and go back,” DVC student, Yanisel Rodriguez, 19 said.

The rumor is MySpace will be a mixture of Pinter-est, Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify. Along with having a sideways timeline, MySpace may connect with LinkedIn by letting people endorse rather than recommend.

The new 2.0 MySpace will be mainly for musicians and creative artists. Artists will be able to track down their fans to see where exactly in the world they have the most fans. MySpace hopes to give the word “fan” a whole new meaning.

Not everyone is thrilled with the idea. Opposing Views user “Allie Is Wired“ called it “just another Tum-blr.”

“I would steer away from it all. It’s just a quick satis-faction for people now,“ said DVC student Adam Perez, 24. “As for the bands who are trying to become famous, if they play a good show, people will watch.”

The Vanderhook broth-ers told ABC News that they won’t compete with other social networks, but instead will let people log in to MySpace using other social networks. It is well

known that people are like a flock of seagulls for the next hot social network. Hint, hint.

With Face-book and Twitter be-coming the reason why anyone has a

phone with them 24/7, the new MySpace will be re-vived by artists who don’t want to pay to show their status update on Facebook or go through the trouble of having their fans go onto their page and click “show in news feed” after clicking “Like.”

Having a social life, with-out having to take pictures of everything anyone does, may no longer be possible. Because I totally love go-ing out with my friends and having them take a picture of their food before we start eating.

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A cause. Something one be-lieves in. A lesson one feels called to spread. I’m all for getting up on a soapbox, presenting your views and (if you’re so lucky) enlightening someone to your view. But I feel this should be done RESPECTFULLY!

I’d heard last week that we had people on campus protesting abor-tions; thankfully my route around campus missed this delegation at that time. Wednesday, October 10th, I was not so lucky. As I walked up from the book center, my eyes, heart and stomach were assaulted. Between four HUGE and disturbing posters was a sign reading: “Are you suffering after an abortion?”

Wow. At what point is that going to “help” someone who is “suffer-

ing?” Is shaming a person a form of support now? How is asking a woman who is “suffering” to walk through a GAUNTLET of photos of aborted fetuses in order to “con-tact support” NOT cruel?

What about the woman who has recently suffered a miscarriage? Should she be forced to avert her eyes and choke back the bitter tears because the ten-foot-tall posters take her back to the horrible night she lost her miracle? Or the young husband who held his wife’s hand as she de-livered their pre-term son who would barely take a breath? Imagine his pain as the photo (that appeared to be of an illegal late-term abortion, which even pro-choice folks disagree with!) looks all too much like his son who didn’t have a chance.

Will these “supporters” accompa-ny him to the bathroom and support him as he vomits? Not likely. The hackles on the back of my neck rose even higher as I realized that each individual accosting students with

graphic flyers, was a man. A man who will never have the final say in a woman’s reproductive choices or know the anguish of a woman faced with the decision of how to address an unplanned pregnancy.

I agree that women should be edu-cated on birth control and the choic-es available be fully explained (down to the nitty gritty). But there are

innumerous less disturbing ways to present them and dissuade someone from having an elective abor-tion. Most of the women who would label them-selves as “suffering after an abortion” (Emotionally,

psychologically, spiritually…) don’t need to be shown graphic photos. If they are “suffering” they have almost certainly made their decision already on if they would walk that same path again. If they are completely cavalier about it? They are also unlikely to be swayed by these graphic displays.

All this group has accomplished on campus is to turn the stomachs and ruin the cheerful, sunny October day of hundreds if not thousands of DVC students who had the “luck”

of passing through the library quad. I’m a broadcasting student with a flair for journalism, so don’t get me wrong, I’m all for “Freedom of Speech.” But freedom of speech and cruelty to the public doesn’t coexist happily, anywhere, let alone on DVC’s campus. The guidelines as to what can be displayed during “free speech” sessions should be looked at and likely revised. My fear is that next week? We’ll have a visit from Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church members toting their “God Hates Fags” and “God Kills Soldiers” banners. **Note: The “warning” signs displayed around campus were not visible during the one o’clock hour when I passed be-tween the book center and the quad. Perhaps they should be adorned with balloons or something at EYE LEVEL for future incidences like this. I must have passed a dozen of them in the three o’clock hour after my class between the LA building and the music building’s parking lot.

Compete with global elite?

MySpace returns from the dead

--Laurel Clemons

It is apt to say that we the people of Cali-fornia need to increase our responsibility to help defend the Master Plan for Higher Education. But it’s not enough to say that students in this state need to be able to compete with the “world labor market.” We need to be able to compete with the global elite.

A quick search of “Tax Justice Network” along with “$32 trillion” should bring up some startling realities of the last month. Global networks of billionaires (about 100 thousand people) have amassed a total wealth of $32 trillion be-ing held in tax havens, “unre-corded offshore wealth.”

As reported by many news agencies, from Huffington Post to Infowars and Los Angeles Times to New York Times, that since 1970, the richest citizens in 139 developed countries have a combined wealth of $7.3 trillion to $9.3 trillion in “unre-corded offshore wealth.”

Democracy Now has report-ed 400 of these super-rich individuals live in the U.S.; Contra Costa Times reported 80 of them live in California and 11 of them are here in the Bay Area, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

These individuals are chiefly responsible for choking off the resources we are losing access to; education is a main one of these resources. Think about how much money is leaving our communities and displacing students, what are we to do? With money leaving our communities, where are we to go and how are we to get by?

We need to become involved in the is-sue of education and the issue of access. Who is not getting in and why? What is re-sponsible access and how do we increase it? Progress comes when those who care about education link up with other causes to form community concerns, as opposed to mar-ginalized ones.

But how is it that we do this to get by? After getting your education, the place you should settle is not in some Fortune 500 company but rather your own community.

Finding a need and filling it could con-tribute a lot to community wealth. And by hiring those from the community to work, you can put more wealth back in the locals’ hands. When we combine this with people taking interest in their community and de-veloping a democratic tradition of engag-ing those who are elected, then we have a sustainable community outside of the stock market. A sustainable community that can bounce back at hard times and provide peo-ple their rights to health, education, hous-ing, utilities and a living wage.

We need not go further than our own local community. New Economics Foun-

dation research shows that when people “buy local,” money circulates faster, contributing to the quality of life of people living in the city.

Research done by New Economic Foundation has found that “Government spending on a local con-struction firm benefited the local economy nearly twice as much as spending on a non-local firm. An organic

farm’s income generated twice as much money for the local economy as a super-market’s income in the same area… Social enterprises add economic value, not just so-cial value, to their target communities in the form of jobs and local sourcing of goods and services.”

As far back as 1970’s, when the wealth disparity was manageable, communities flourished and people were able to go to school and have somewhat of a living wage. Money stayed in the local community and contributed to the rise of the standard of living of people in the United States.

Currently in countries as industrialized as England or as destitute as Argentina the investment in the local community has led to education, healthcare, utilities being free! So are we ready to take that plunge to ben-efit the whole through collective support or will we continue to undercut for the sake of individualism?

NICOLAS HOLMESStaff writer

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Abortion protest backlash

“Is shaming a person a form

of support now?”

“I always thought

MySpace was better than Facebook”

~YANISEL RODRIGUEZ student

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DVC students worked to produce an entertaining, yet moving and poignant perfor-mance of ‘Grapes of Wrath’ that captivated its audience.

The theme of the play re-volves around the Joad family, migrating to California to seek jobs. The play injected a gift of musicality that brought the play to life with the cast taking turns to sing and play musical instruments. The variety of songs creatively reflected the mood of the situation.

There was a salient juxtaposi-tion between ap-pearance and re-ality, as seen from the presentable and expensive looking outfits worn by the sing-ers, in contrast to the shabby and dull clothing that the Okies wore. The main prop — an old truck — was undoubtedly visually impactful.

DVC professor Ed Trujillo was the director, and through the play, he wants to convey the message that “No mat-ter what happens, people will move on.”

“The play is about hope and enduring spirit that peo-ple will move on no matter what,” he said.

Trujillo also worked on cre-ating “an accurate portrayal”

of the play. “We worked on the accent, [borrowed] things from the Library of Con-gress…to get a sense of the time period,” Trujillo said. They focused on “the authen-ticity, language, gestures” to emulate “how they acted in the time period”.

Their efforts to bring the play to life can be seen from the convincing Oklahoma slang the cast adopted during the play.

Trujillo said that the play also sends a “powerful” mes-

sage about wom-en. The mother of the Joad fami-ly, Ma, was clearly leading the fam-ily in the play. All the characters respected her and she makes the de-cisions. Rose of Sharon, despite her misfortunate

circumstances, ends the play by sustaining a man’s life – thus redeeming hope for life and the birth of a new begin-ning.

Trujillo calls the play’s suc-cess a collaborative effort and is “very happy [as they] spent a lot of time on it.” On the topic of theater, he said. “You have to see beyond what is there and imagine.”

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For our Halloween edition of the biweekly movie review, comes PA4, which failed to deliver anything more than the first three films, so in the spirit of concision I’ll keep it short.

The film continues the story with Katie and her nephew having moved to Nevada. The neighbors across the street be-gin to notice strange “activity” in their house (doors opening randomly and flashes of mys-terious light across the screen) since the arrival of Katie and her nephew Robbie.

PA4’s suspense technique wears thin when you realize that after a long silence there will most likely be something loud, intended to startle. In

classic horror movie fashion, the beginning of the film has several flinch takes which work, but detract from the eventual climax.

There were some continuity issues, like the time stamp of one camera that was only pres-ent at night and switched sides of the screen from the begin-ning to the end.

The film started off with family tension that could have been explored in-depth to make the story more interest-ing, but failed to invest me in the characters. This relative indifference leaves me craving more substance.

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Enduring‘Wrath’

Creepy kid Robbie (Brady Allen) looms behind his babysitter (Catheryn Newton) in the fourth installment of the cult hit, “Paranormal Activity.”

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Top: Jeremy Dorado, as former preacher Jim Casey, leads the Joad family in prayer. Below left: Kyle Goldman as Tom Joad mourns his grandfa-ther’s death with other members of his family. Below right: Goldman is turned away from a camp for workers.

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and enduring spirit”

~ED TRUJILLODirector