Student Activism

Black Student Unions Are Under Pressure

November 30, 2025 Antar A Tichavakunda, Counter Punch. Educate! Black Student Unions, Higher Education, Student Activism, Trump Administration

Black student unions have been a vital part of many Black college students’ lives for more than 60 years. But since 2024, Black student unions have lost their institutional support, campus space and funding with the rise of anti-diversity, equity and inclusion laws in Utah and Alabama. Black student unions now face a new wave of pressure, as more than 400 colleges and universities under the Trump administration have rebranded or eliminated programs and centers that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Amy Lieberman, education editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke with Antar A. Tichavakunda, a scholar of race and higher education, to better understand what Black student unions are and how they influence Black students’ experiences in higher education.

Detroit Students Fight To Save Classmates Kidnapped By ICE

November 28, 2025 Noelle Belanger and Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Community Defense, Detroit, ICE, Student Activism

Detroit, Illinois - A wave of anger and mobilization is sweeping through Detroit following the detention of two 16-year-old high school students and their families by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week. The teens, asylum seekers from Venezuela, were seized from their home in an early morning raid, which ignited condemnation from teachers, students, and immigrant rights organizations, who are all demanding their immediate release. The students, cousins who are active members of the Western International High School community, were detained along with two of their parents on the morning of Thursday, November 20.

Charlotte Students Lead Mass Action Against Immigration Raids

November 22, 2025 Gary Wilson, Struggle La Lucha. Resist! ICE, Immigrant Rights, North Carolina, Student Activism

As federal agents swept through Charlotte, North Carolina, the first and most powerful pushback came from the students — the young people who showed what solidarity looks like in action. On Nov. 17, more than 30,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students stayed home in a coordinated “sickout” to protest a federal operation targeting immigrant neighborhoods. By the end of the week, more than 56,000 students had refused to attend school, making it one of the largest student-led actions against immigration raids anywhere in the country.

Tulane Students Disrupt IDF Event, Resist Police Repression

November 5, 2025 Annabelle Jones, Fight Back! News. Resist! Higher Education, Israeli Occupying Forces, New Orleans, Student Activism

New Orleans, LA – On the night of Monday, November 3, 60 Tulane students and community members gathered for a noise demonstration to protest the first stop of a national “Combat on Campus Tour” of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. The IDF event was hosted by Tulane Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at the Chabad Center of Louisiana near Tulane University’s campus. Protesters, called together by Together United Louisiana Students for a Democratic Society (TUL SDS), banged pots, pans and drums to disrupt the two IDF soldiers who came to share “their firsthand stories from October 7 and the war that followed.”

Climate Justice At The University: Integrating Struggles For Liberation

November 4, 2025 Semine Long-Callesen, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Activism

Universities are not simply places for learning and research but are also centers of power and influence that can shape society. This idea about the power of higher education is cemented over and over again in the panel conversation between Fernando Racimo, Associate Professor of Molecular Ecology and Evolution at the University of Copenhagen and Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Change at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. They met at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen to discuss the state of university institutions in the context of the urgent climate crisis.

SJSU Pro-Palestine Students Disrupt Career Fair With Silent Action

September 14, 2025 John Durovan, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Career Fair, Gaza, Genocide, Student Activism, weapons

San Jose, CA – On September 10, San Jose Students for a Democratic Society alongside various other SJSU students held a silent protest outside a career fair where Lockheed Martin, notorious weapons manufacturer and supporter of the Gaza genocide, had a table. San Jose State University held the “Business, Financial Services and Logistics Job and Internship Fair” at 11 a.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. The career fair on the school’s website claims to attract over 600 students. Lockheed Martin was present at the event, intent on recruiting students to participate in what they call “defense,” which is in fact the design and manufacture of warplanes, helicopters and munitions which are used by the Israeli military to bomb and murder thousands of Palestinians a month.

How Administrators Failed To Stop The Presses At The University Of Texas

September 6, 2025 Aeffia Feuerstein, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Journalists, Palestine, Student Activism, Student Journalists, Texas, University Of Texas

It would have been easy for the small team of student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas to just crash. Administrators had been throwing obstacles in front of them since October 7. But the students forged a new path. A path riddled with craters, bumps, and sometimes stars. And as for administrators… University administrators are not competent. They are career bureaucrats. … They’re not there because they are the best in their field. They’re there because they had good political maneuverings to get into their position. … They’re there because they make the school look good sometimes. So if there is pressure on you, it’s not because they know the law. It’s not because you did something wrong. …They will do their violations and they will move on. You’re just another student to them unless you stand up for yourself. And I think we really show that you can stand up for yourself and be successful.

Students Urge George Washington University Not To Capitulate To Trump

August 22, 2025 GWU Left Coalition, Mondoweiss. Resist! Campus Movement, George Washington University, Palestine, Student Activism, Trump Administration

We, the students, write to you at a critical moment of GW’s institutional path and the future of education in the United States. As students, we demand the protection of our collective right to pursue our education without the fascist interference of the Trump administration. The White House is waging war against colleges and universities across the country, and as we witness the consequences from the institutions already targeted, we are aware of the fate of our education and well-being should GW decide to give in. The DOJ has already placed the fate of international students at other schools in jeopardy, threatening to report them to DHS and the State Department.

Student Expulsions Over Palestine Protest Are Extreme And Unjustified

August 10, 2025 Open Letter, Mondoweiss. Resist! Campus Movement, Higher Education, Repression, Retaliation, Student Activism

We write this letter in alarm, as parents of students in the student movement for justice in Palestine at Occidental College. We are responding to the college’s threat against several students with conduct violations which could possibly result in punishments as severe as suspension and expulsion. We strongly object to these charges against the students as ungrounded, and ask that the college immediately drop the charges. We request instead that the college procures an independent and politically neutral investigation into the April 25th incident at issue here, and invite the students into a productive dialogue or restorative justice process with the administration, faculty and campus community to resolve this issue. Expulsion is a drastic punishment and, in this case, fully unwarranted.

As Columbia Capitulates To Trump Over Palestine, Student Activists Regroup

August 6, 2025 Tamara Turki, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Higher Education, Palestine, Retaliation, Student Activism

Over the past two years, Columbia University has become a case study in the growing battle between grassroots movements in the U.S. and the institutions determined to silence them. What began as a student-led call for divestment from Israel escalated into a high-stakes confrontation between students, university leadership, and, eventually, the U.S. president. That battle now appears to have reached a grim turning point. In trading student rights to free speech and protest for federal funding, Columbia, once known as the “activist Ivy,” has signaled the end of an era of American higher education nurtured political dissent and the beginning of a new one, marked by increased surveillance, censorship, and punishment.

Stop The Nationwide Repression Of The Pro-Palestine Movement

July 24, 2025 Maryam Alaniz, Left Voice. Strategize! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Israel, Palestine, Repression, Student Activism

Columbia University just suspended nearly 80 students for participating in a teach-in honoring Palestinian writer and revolutionary Basel al-Araj — marking the largest student suspension in the university’s modern history. The escalation comes amid growing repression against the pro-Palestine movement nationally, and just days before Columbia is expected to finalize an agreement with the Trump administration and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The deal would restore $400 million in canceled federal funding in exchange for adopting policies that criminalize criticism of Israel.

How Pro-Palestine Activists At Princeton Got Their Charges Dropped

July 22, 2025 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. Resist! Campus Movement, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Princeton, Repression, Student Activism, Victory

As the genocide in Gaza continues, imperialist governments that have made Israel’s crimes possible are escalating their attacks on the movement for Palestine. From the targeting of international students to the recent firing of four CUNY faculty over Palestine activism, universities remain an important site of struggle against the genocide. Despite the repression, there have been victories which show that it pays to take up the fight against these attacks on the movement for Palestine. One example is at Princeton University, where 13 activists from the Princeton community recently got charges dropped after more than a year.

Hands Off CUNY: PSC Defends Fired Faculty, Condemns Repression

July 16, 2025 Victor Harlan, Left Voice. Resist! Campus Movement, CUNY, Higher Education, Retaliation, Student Activism, Unions

Members and friends of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) at the City University of New York (CUNY), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) held a press conference in front of City Hall today to condemn what they are calling “modern-day McCarthyism” in higher education and to demand the rehiring of the Fired 4. The press conference comes one day before CUNY’s chancellor joins top administrators from University of California, Berkeley and Georgetown University to testify in Washington before the House Education and Workforce Committee.

The Student Movement For Palestine Continues, Despite Crackdowns

July 15, 2025 Nashwa Bawab, In These Times. Strategize! Campus Movement, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism

The Palestine movement is in an especially difficult phase. The genocide in Gaza has been ongoing for more than 20 months; the death toll has become virtually untrackable, but estimates suggest at least 55,000 people have been killed. In the United States, the movement is facing repression not seen since the height of the war on terror. Empowered by the student movement just a year ago, the moment is now colored by a sense of defeatism and a loss of hope. To discuss where to find hope, where the movement for liberation has made strides and where we go from here, In These Times brought together figures from the student movement globally.

CUNY Escalates Repression Against Palestine Activism

July 11, 2025 Billie Estrine, Mondoweiss. Educate! Campus Movement, Higher Education, New York City (NYC), Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism

In a move that activists are saying is an attempt to quell the passionate student and worker movement for Palestinian liberation within the City University of New York (CUNY), student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik has been suspended for a year. While she is suspended from CCNY, she is not permitted to enroll in any other CUNY college. Malik is a courageous organizer and leader of CCNY’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. She has become a public face of the student movement for Palestine in New York City and across the nation since the movement accelerated worldwide to end Israel’s escalated genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

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