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Occupy Texas State is a student activist group formed at Texas State University - San Marcos. It is distinguished from the off-campus but allied (Occupy San Marcos ). Occupy Texas State utilizes the principles of peaceful protest that began on October 5, 2011 in the Quad around the "(Fighting Stallions )". It is affiliated with both the (Occupy Colleges ) and Occupy Wall Street movements that began in Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York respectively. The series of protests and demonstrations put forth by Occupy Texas State are the largest to occur on the campus since November 1969 when about 70 students at the then named Southwest Texas State University gathered in the Quad to hold a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War. The 1969 demonstrations resulted in ten students referred to as the "San Marcos Ten" being expelled from the university and went before the US Supreme Court in 1970 which led to the creation of "Free Speech Zones" at several universities nationwide. ==Background and history== The original intent of Occupy Texas State was to denounce the role that large corporations had in promulgating the financial crisis and to highlight the effects of the financial crisis on higher education. The protesters at Texas State University, as in other movements throughout the world, have described themselves as the "99 percent," a reflection of their belief that the financial system rewards the richest 1 percent at the expense of everyone else. The group was founded by Joshua Christopher Harvey (Joschua Beres), a US Air Force veteran, Leo Gomez Jr., Matthew Molnar, Laura Cowan and Max Anderson. The group's motto is "Student activism for higher education reform" and they plan to "implement change to improve the quality of education and reduce educational cost inequality for not only Texas State University students – but students across the state of Texas and the nation". They plan to highlight cuts to student grants and highlight the problems posed by the current student loan system. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Occupy Texas State」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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