Yes, plenty of intellectual endeavors will occur today, including a visit to Valencia by Native American activist Russell Means and a Stanford scholar's discussion in Claremont on Asian values and the future of democracy in Asia . There will be celebrations in Pasadena where young scholars were awarded thousands of dollars in prizes for their disease research, and downtown at REDCAT, a festival of turntable, tech and sound art will get under way.
But today's also a day of planned rallies and actions to oppose sweeping budgets cuts to public education in the Golden State. Here's hoping it's all peaceful and highly productive.
SoCalMinds will spend today with limited posting, instead contemplating how the state got itself in this budget mess and what it might mean to us all if there's any decline in the intellectual firepower that made California great.
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