Student Activism

Victories For Palestine Continued On US Campuses In 2020

December 31, 2020 Nada Elia, Mondoweiss. Resist! Higher Education, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Student Activism

Despite the challenges of online/remote learning, campus activism has not stopped over the past year. National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is currently planning their 2021 conference, celebrating 10 years of this annual reunion of SJP chapters from around the nation. And many student chapters have passed significant resolutions around some major issues, from censorship, to the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, to divestment and, most recently, the training of campus police by the Israeli military. As we wrap up 2020, here is a representative sample of campus activism since the beginning of the 2020-2021 academic year, pointing to what can be expected in 2021.

How Our Biggest ISPs Are Failing Students During COVID-19

November 17, 2020 Brandon Forester, Tech Dirt. Educate! Comcast, Internet Access, Pandemic, Student Activism

Early in the pandemic, one of our MediaJustice Network members reached out to us in hopes we could support a group of high school students in Baltimore who were trying to amplify their campaign. The students are leaders in a Latinx and immigrant student organization called Students Organizing for a Multicultural and Open Society (SOMOS), and this was their first time organizing for digital equity. When school ended last year, SOMOS realized that many of their fellow Baltimore city schoolmates who’d relied on Comcast’s Internet Essentials discount program didn’t have a connection fast or reliable enough for online school.

Manchester’s Student Revolt

November 15, 2020 Sarah Cundy, Tribune Magazine. Resist! Higher Education, privatizatio, Student Activism, United Kingdom (UK)

Students ‌at University of Manchester ‌have‌ ‌been‌ ‌treated‌ ‌with‌ ‌contempt‌ ‌by‌ ‌management.‌ ‌Like‌ ‌those ‌across‌ ‌the‌ ‌country,‌ ‌we‌ ‌were‌ ‌lured‌ ‌back‌ ‌to‌ campus ‌on‌ ‌the‌ ‌promise‌ ‌of‌ ‌normality‌ ‌– a‌ ‌promise‌ that the ‌lecturers’ union, the UCU‌, ‌as well as ‌SAGE‌ ‌warned‌ ‌was‌ ‌inconceivable. We have been used as scapegoats for government failings, and forced to pay rents that 74% of us cannot meet – since students usually work to make ends meet. All this while Nancy Rothwell, our Vice-Chancellor who chairs the Russell Group, championed the use of chartered flights to coax international students into an environment that she must know is unsafe.

At North Carolina Colleges, ‘Safe Jobs Save Lives’

August 19, 2020 By Calvin Deutschbein, Workers World. Resist! COVID-19, North Carolina, Student Activism, Worker Rights

The UNC-Chapel Hill administration’s communications team finally acknowledged the spread of infection half an hour later and issued a campus alert. The administrators had spent months fighting students, workers, local and state governments, the N.C. Department of Health, virtually every local community group — and the very concept of human dignity — to push forward an in-person reopening. The University of North Carolina, a statewide system of 16 colleges and universities, wields considerable indirect power over the entire higher education sector in the state. This is reflected in the in-person openings underway at nearby private schools Duke University and Elon College. All around North Carolina, workers united are saying, “Safe Jobs Save Lives!”

UK Students Fighting For Universities To Cut Ties With Israeli Apartheid

July 31, 2020 By Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Resist! Israel, Palestine, Student Activism, United Kingdom (UK)

Apartheid Off Campus is a newly-formed student network fighting to sever the ties between UK universities and the Israeli occupation. “University students are in a powerful position to campaign in support of Palestinians and against the structures of racism by both challenging/exposing these links and forcing their universities to divest from complicit companies, as well as making their institutions commit to being APARTHEID FREE,” reads the group’s website. Research recently released by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign shows that UK universities continue to invest over $580 million in companies complicit in Israeli apartheid. Mondoweiss spoke with five of the network’s student activists about the state of BDS in the United Kingdom, the current political climate, and organizing in the time of COVID-19.

Launch Of Apartheid Off Campus

May 27, 2020 Apartheid Off Campus. Organize! Apartheid, BDS, Palestine, Student Activism

Apartheid Off Campus was born officially just over a week ago and it could not have come at a better time, with the new and ever-mounting challenges the Palestinians have had to face. In this 7-day window, AOC acquired over 2000 followers across three social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. AOC has received far-reaching and overwhelming support from students and activists alike, enough to remind us that now is as perfect a time as any to launch an active, dynamic student-led movement for Palestine. After an online-only (courtesy of the lockdown!) student campaign launch, hundreds of students across the UK posted pictures of themselves with placards and posters calling for the decolonization of universities, by ending their complicity with Israeli apartheid and divesting from the companies embroiled in such oppression.

Organizing For Environmental Justice

May 24, 2020 Alex Gordon, Coalfield Justice. Organize! Environment, Fossil Fuels, Student Activism, Zero waste

Young people have been paramount to just about every successful social movement in this country, with the Climate Movement, and the revolt against oil and gas being no exceptions. Regardless, we still see a gap in youth involvement in petrochemical organizing. College students are an especially-untapped resource for the movement against petrochemical expansion and, this summer, I aim to work with these three aforementioned organizations to help mend that. Though things may have gotten a bit turned around by the current pandemic, this is a profound moment in our history. A line from My Shot in the musical Hamilton, stating “This is not a moment, it’s the movement,” plays frequently in my mind these days, out of recognition and excitement that this time is a moment for our movement, and an opening perhaps, to make lasting systemic change.

“Everyone Deserves A Cost-Of-Living Adjustment”: Interview With UCSC Striker Yulia Gilich

March 30, 2020 Jenn Schreiter, Unicorn Riot Resist! California, Class Struggle, Cost of living, Higher Education, Student Activism, Wages

Santa Cruz, CA – Graduate student teaching assistants (TAs) at the University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC) are fighting for a livable wage. A year of unsuccessful attempts to encourage their employer to re-negotiate a fairer contract, including a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to their pay, has escalated into a full labor strike. In turn, dozens of workers have been fired by the university in retaliation for the Pay Us More UCSC campaign.

Students Sue Harvard For Investment In Private Prisons

March 21, 2020 Staff, Harvardprisondivest.org Resist! Harvard, Higher Education, Lawsuit, Prisons, Student Activism

This is not a decision that our campaign arrived at lightly. Turning to the courts is a last resort. Having tried multiple channels, from protests to petitions to rallies to teach-ins to reports to non-official and official meetings, but finding no relief, we have been forced to file this lawsuit against the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Harvard Management Company, Lawrence Bacow in his capacity as President of Harvard University, and William Lee in his capacity as Senior Fellow.

A New Generation Of Climate Activists Is Reviving Fossil Fuel Divestment

March 4, 2020 Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! climate crisis, Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Student Activism

A wave of student-led actions swept across the campuses of around 60 U.S. and Canadian schools last month, as students turned to sit-ins, walkouts and banner drops to pressure universities into divesting their endowments from fossil fuel companies. Called “Divestment Day” by activists, the Feb. 13 series of actions was just the latest escalation for a movement that’s been undergoing a serious revival. In fact, even just one year ago, something like the events of Divestment Day would have been unimaginable, as the movement was just coming out of a protracted lull. Since then, however, existing and newly formed divestment-focused groups have begun working together, old campaigns have adopted new tactics and the next generation of youth climate organizers has risen to the forefront.

Why Should You Care About The UCSC Strike?

February 26, 2020 By Nick Slater, Current Affairs Resist! New Economy, Strike, Student Activism

Last December, hundreds of graduate students at the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) voted to go on strike. Their sole demand was a cost of living adjustment (COLA) to their monthly stipend. Santa Cruz, a tech hub near Silicon Valley and San Jose, gets more expensive every year. The current base stipend—which comes out to roughly $21,906 per year—is not nearly enough to live on. A 2017 survey found that a grad student in the Santa Cruz area would need at least $32,000 to make it through the year on a barebones budget.

Palestinian Freedom 2020: Student Activists Confront Democratic Candidates Over Aid To Israel

January 18, 2020 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss.net Resist! Electoral Politics, Palestine, Student Activism

Hasan is a first-generation Palestinian activist who attends Tuft University and got involved in the movement after seeing the impact Israeli policy has had on his family. (“I do this because Israel has to change for the sake of my people – and for humanity,” he explains.) He told Mondoweiss that he was encouraged by the responses from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders, but indicated that there was a lot more work to be done.

Harvard Law School Students Disrupt Recruitment Event, Calling On Major Law Firm To #DropExxon

January 17, 2020 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Harvard, Higher Education, Student Activism

Over 100 students from Harvard Law School staged a public protest against a recruitment dinner hosted by law firm Paul Weiss on Wednesday night, calling for the company to cut ties with fossil fuel giant Exxon. In a statement, the demonstrators said they were taking action because of the severity of the climate crisis. "This is a do-or-die moment in human history," said student Aaron Regunberg, one of the action's leaders, in a statement. "We have just a few years left to rein in corporate polluters and address the climate crisis."

In Sacramento, Youth Activists Push To Get Police Out Of Schools

January 9, 2020 Susan Abram, Chronicleofsocialchange.org Resist! California, Police, Schools, Student Activism

Her brother had bumped into the officer and apologized, Lopez said. But the officer proceeded to question him and asked him for his ID. “It was all new to me,” said Lopez, now 17 and a senior, of the aggressive approach the officer used with her brother. “When I was younger, I wanted to be a police officer. When I got to high school, I finally saw what it’s like for us, for people of color. It really angered me, because I didn’t notice it in my childhood.”

Inside 10 Days That Shook Syracuse University: Fear, Power, Confusion And ‘Not Again’

December 1, 2019 By Julie McMahon, Syracuse.com Resist! Racism, Student Activism

A student uprising, brewing for years at Syracuse University, transformed overnight a new $50 million campus gym into a shelter for protesters. The sit-in eventually commanded a national audience and threatened top administrators at the college. A crowd that started with about 50, mostly black students grew into a small village – replete with a fully stocked, makeshift cafeteria and a tutoring center.

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