About Us

Occupy Texas State in action on October 13th, 2011. Photo by Lindsey Huckaby.

Occupy Texas State was formally founded in solidarity with The Occupy Wall Street protest and movement in Liberty Plaza on October 5th, 2011 at Texas State University – San Marcos by Joshua Christopher Harvey, Matthew Molnar, Laura Cowan, Max Anderson and Leo Gomez Jr.. The group and its General Assembly strive to investigate, discuss and 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.

We realize that being in the midst of an historical event is always a challenge. The Internet and social media have made it possible for all of us to see this movement unfold and discuss its significance. Our connected world also makes it easier to recognize the moment and mobilize in support. This is one historic moment in which we are, en masse, rising up  to demand that our society moves back into balance and that fairness, equity, and humanity for all become the central tenants by which we want to live. We hope to implement changes and suggest ideas that we can present to our university’s Board of Regents, our state legislature and our national government that will ease the burden of attaining a higher education in this country and make it feasible to maintain and augment an educated and skilled work force to bring progressive and positive change to America and the world.

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” –Meditation 17, John Donne