The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/politics/)
About 50 students, professors, and community members attended a “Stand Against Fascism” rally at Ho Plaza on Friday afternoon, hearing from a slate of speakers who criticized both newly-elected President Donald Trump and the Democratic Party, before marching to the Ithaca Commons to join a larger group of protesters.
So, since our country has decided that politics has a place in sex, I plan – and would encourage uterus-havers across the country – to respond with the ultimate political protest: a Pussy Strike.
Dystopias remain terrifying because of how close we remain to achieving them. Black Mirror, an anthology Netflix TV series, often utilizes dystopias to make social and political commentary. Each episode is unrelated in content but they all aim to critique or expose human nature. Sure, I could list the most entertaining episodes but, in this political moment, wouldn’t it be more fun to look at the ones that hate us the most?
Tomorrow feels like staring down the barrel of a political D-Day. But I’m here to help you cope!
Editor’s Note: This column responds to Seth Berman’s Oct. 29 column titled Your Vote Won’t Matter, But You Still need to use it. I write in response to a recent Sun column that claims the votes of Cornell students “won’t matter” because New York is not a presidential swing state. Although the column ultimately encourages students to vote in spite of this supposed irrelevance, it is irresponsible and ill-informed to claim that our votes at Cornell don’t matter. Despite New York’s solid-blue status on the presidential level — not to mention Ithaca’s political leanings — our congressional district (NY-19) is one of the most competitive in the country.
Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator and the founding editor-in-chief of the right-wing media company The Daily Wire, spoke to a packed audience in Bailey Hall on Monday in an event titled “What’s at Stake on November 5th.” During this talk, Shapiro discussed the upcoming presidential election and fielded questions about intersectionality, free speech, LGBTQ+ politics and former President Donald Trump.
Anything short of a vote for Harris will strangle the right to speech and protest, jeopardizing the very existence of our democracy.
Hook, a Cornell alum and Democratic candidate for a House seat in Texas, runs a challenging campaign in a Republican-leaning district.
A.D. White Professor-at-Large and Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University Professor Theda Skocpol addressed the student body to discuss former President Donald Trump and this year’s presidential election.
Randi Weingarten ’80 led a course on the importance of labor unions and spoke about how they can foster democracy.