Chile’s Ex-Student Leaders March Their Way To Congressional Victory
...ms in the student movement, also gained seats in Chile’s lower house on Sunday. Their ascension to power, however, likely will not keep protests from spilling onto the [...]
10 Ways Students Organize For Racial Justice
...ssues to the forefront. The rape of a female student in a fraternity common room last spring provoked fierce campus debate and an unprecedented backlash against the existence [...]
Wear Chip or Leave, San Antonio School Tells Students; Parents Protest
...hter and I should not have to give up our constitutional rights to speak out against a program that we feel is wrong.” Andrea Hernandez said that since she has begun taking the [...]
Students Take On Teach For America—And Its Political Allies
...rity and has already received students’ votes of no confidence, has answered our request to meet. On October 1, at her office in Oakland, coalition representatives will [...]
Industrial Disasters and Student Activism
...animal!” They invited some of the workers to come to Washington, D.C., to tell their stories. The students’ Georgetown Solidarity Committee organized a campus-wide [...]
Students Protest Closing CUNY Student Union, Arrests & Pepper Spray
...class. You can view an hour-long livestream of the protest below; the stream has now gone off the air. Video streaming by Ustream At 4 p.m. on Thursday, CCNY spokesperson Deidra Hill sent us [...]
10 Lessons American Protesters Can Learn from Quebec’s Students
...from trying to backtrack a couple of years down the road. Related Stories: Quebec Attempts to Quash Students’ Free Speech with New Law Occupy Wall Street Celebrates 1st [...]
Autonomy In Brazil: Below And Behind The June Uprising
...passe livre movement, with its demand for free bus fare for students. It was a movement of poor and lower middle class students who were faced with high [...]
Elections, Pipelines, and Protests
...of race-relation issues, and of the question of Quebec sovereignty that’s going to be decided on Monday. PERIES: Yves, are the students putting their weight behind any [...]
The Limitations And Possibilities Of Student-Labor Coalitions
...500 signatures from law students, professors and alumni, according to Herrine, when the news broke that Straus would no longer be on the board. A bittersweet victory [...]
Obama To Reward Loan Company Accused Of Cheating Troops
...8221; During the ensuing months, the Education Department considered punishing Navient, according to people familiar with the matter, by excluding it for a year from the group of companies [...]
Debate: Strategy And Tactics In The Environmental Movement
...protests are also fighting to stop the Spectra fracked gas pipeline into lower Manhattan, along with fights to close Indian Point nuclear plant and to ban fracking in New York State. And [...]
How Higher Education Ought To Be
...sing cheap labor—and vulnerable labor—is a business practice that goes as far back as you can trace private enterprise, and unions emerged in response. In the universities, cheap, [...]
#MillionStudentMarch: Time To Build Political Revolution!
...llionStudentMarch took place on 115 campuses across the country. On April 13th, we’re doing it again, this time joining forces with Black Liberation Collective, the group behind the [...]
South African Student Protests
...spite of general price inflation around 5 percent). The trajectory through race to class The current insurgency began late last month with sporadic acts of fury. At the University of [...]