Occupy Your Victories
...ever imperfect they may be, as further steps along the road and never believe that the road ends or that you should stop walking. Still, if you’re talking about results, I’m [...]
One Year of Occupy. One Year of Journalist Arrests
...Hunter College’s “The Envoy” was arrested. Breaking: Student editor from Hunter College’s@hunterenvoy arrested at #OWS this [...]
40 People Stop Keystone XL Construction: Four Lock to Machinery, Nacogdoches Student and Two Others Launch a New Tree Blockade
...aud, bullying, and reckless endangerment of their lives and fresh water,” insisted Ron Seifert, a Tar Sands Blockade spokesperson. Included amongst the Angelina tree sitters is [...]
The Metropolitan Education Problem: Why High School Students Are Walking Out
...rego a portion of the wages that had already been negotiated into their contract. Philadelphia is far from the only American city with major fiscal problems in the school system at the moment. [...]
Reflections on the Sallie Mae Shareholders Meeting
Photo above of the shareholder meeting protest on May 30, 2013, courtesy of the Student Labor Action Project. My name is Alyssia Osorio, an organizer with New York [...]
Obama’s Nasty Surprise for Black College Students
...legacy tens of thousands of newly minted black college graduates to carry on what is sure to be a decades-long struggle? “We’re getting calls and e-mails from parents, at least two [...]
Video: Police Recruiting Activist To Spy On Students & Political Groups
...‘Officers use covert tactics to gather intelligence, in accordance with the law, to assist in the prevention and detection of criminal activity’ Cambridge Defend Education [...]
Racism On College Campuses An Issue In ‘Post-Racial’ Society
...again.” Beyond the immediate provocation of the party, a sharp decline in Black undergraduate enrollment — to 4.6 percent of the student body in 2013 from 6.2 [...]
Student Activists Say “No Fracking Way”
...tural gas. If we could do it right, if we could do it in a way that reduces emissions…that would be amazing. But the problem is that we’re not doing that right now,” said [...]
The Devastating Effect Of Mass School Closures On Philadelphia
...an asthma attack at school. Massey’s school didn’t have a nurse, and her family argued one could have saved their daughter’s life. In fact, during the budget crisis, school [...]
Students Escalate Divestment Campaign
...the Charles River for a divestment demonstration. After the rally, students from Tufts and Boston College marched directly to President Leahy and Father Monaco’s houses [...]
Beyond Our Broken Dreams, A People Rise
...problem! But it’s the kind of thing that can escalate until the student is expelled. In this case, however, a calm discussion in a peace-circle setting revealed that the [...]
Big Brother Coming Into New York Classrooms
...m preschool to college to the workforce and, potentially, “throughout their lives.” As education reformers push the power of data analysis, state officials say the new system will [...]
How Students Transformed $6 Billion Endowment
...ut of the administration as we were likely to get, but withholding our blessing for the watered-down reform ensured that the university would follow through on its lesser commitments, allowed [...]
Oakland Classrooms Try Healing Instead Of Punishment
...inor infractions: a 5-year-old girl’s temper tantrum, a child doodling on her desk with erasable ink, or adolescent students having a milk fight in the cafeteria. Use of [...]