Student Activism

Fifty Years Ago, 35,000 Chicago Students Walked Out Of Their Classrooms In Protest. They Changed CPS Forever.

October 10, 2018 Tanner Howard, Chicagoreader.com Strategize! Chicago, History, Protests, Student Activism, Students

It's 1968 and 18-year-old Pemon Rami, a recent graduate of Wendell Phillips Academy High School, stands in front of the Umoja Black Student Center in Bronzeville. He stares off into the distance, quiet, determined. Behind him, a poster with an illustration of Malcolm X preaches unstinting devotion to radical change, challenging viewers: "He was ready! Are you?" It's 2018, and 68-year-old Rami stands before a photo of his younger self. Plenty has changed in those intervening years. A half century has softened his features and grayed his short-cut hair, but his presence remains self-assured. Though his own revolutionary moment has long since passed, he still believes that revolution belongs in the hands of the young.

Protests And Politics 50 Years On From Student Uprising

May 11, 2018 Ricardo Abdahllah, Aljazeera.com Resist! History, Protests, Student Activism, Uprising

Fifty years since the May 1968 student uprising, Al Jazeera explores the movement's legacy for protesters today. French police cracked down on violent protests in Paris, echoing scenes that played out half a century ago during the country's 1968 uprising. More than 1,000 demonstrators - some of whom hurled projectiles at police, torched vehicles, and set a McDonald's ablaze - took to the streets of the capital on Tuesday in advance of an International Workers' Day rally. The events in Paris, which saw police use water canon and tear gas in response, were not the only demonstrations to take place in France, however. Throughout the country, public-sector workers and students marched against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reform the country's economy and higher education system.

The Longest Student Sit-In In Howard’s History Comes To An End

April 7, 2018 Jazmin Goodwin and Autumn Dalton, Thehilltoponline.com Resist! Higher Education, Occupation, Student Activism

After nine days of occupying Howard University’s administration building, student protesters ended their sit-in after administrators and student organizers agreed on a way forward for some of the students. A press conference was held by the university’s board of trustees to share a statement of commitments to the Howard University community that included some of the demands that #HUResist wanted when they took over the building at the end of March. Board of Trustees Chairman, Stacey J. Mobley released a statement letter to the Howard University community affirming the end of the nine day sit-in and next steps. “As all of us are aware, Howard University has a long history of healthy debate and discourse on our campus and it’s a tradition we fully support. We want to continue to encourage dialogue and we are committed to providing a safe space for all voices to feel comfortable to speak freely,” Mobley stated in the statement.

Howard University Students Winning, 6th Day Of Occupation

April 3, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Resist! Howard University, Student Activism

Howard University students are in their sixth day of occupying the administration building and they are winning support among the faculty with the Faculty Senate Council voting no confidence in the president, Board of Trustees and others. The Faculty Senate also issued a letter of student support saying they “... are encouraged by and proud of our students’ efforts, which are living examples of the mission of Howard University.” Black America web, CNN and USA Today reported that the Hoard University Board of Trustees agreed to one of their nine demands on Saturday, March 30: to “provide adequate housing for all students under the age of 21 and extend the fall 2018 housing deposit deadline to May 1.

Howard University Students In Third Day Of Occupation

March 31, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Occupation, Student Activism

Hundreds of Howard University students are in their third day of an occupation of four floors of the administration building. They are planning Easter services on Sunday at 9:30. The occupation was ignited by the recent revelation that over a million dollars were stolen via tuition reimbursements from 2007 to 2016 but the students demands were broader. The students issued a statement of demands. The students are also calling for “the immediate resignation of President Wayne A.I. Frederick and the Executive Committee of the Board of the Trustees”

Hampton University Students Take To The Streets Over Campus Conditions

March 30, 2018 Eddie Conway, Therealnews.com Resist! HBCUs, Higher Education, Student Activism

Yeah, there’s a number of student protests taking place on campus. Variety of issues that students are trying to get addressed. One is Title IX compliance issues. Another is quality of food service on campus and housing issues, certain deficiencies with mold and mildew and things like that in rooms. And the administration has been working to respond to a lot of the students concerns. They’ve had a number of public meetings. The students have also been vocal on social media on expressing their displeasure with some of the conditions, or the concerns, and their efforts to try to reach out to administration to work with them to solve them. So it’s a very unique issue for Hampton. There are a lot of HBCUs that confront these kind of things every year, but it’s very rare for Hampton as an institution and as a student body to be so out front publicly on these kinds of issues.

Students Lead ‘March For Our Lives’ Against Gun Violence

March 25, 2018 By John Zangas and Anne Meador, DC Media Group Resist! Gun Control, Mass Shootings, Student Activism

High school students joined hands to lead over a half a million demonstrators in the “March For Our Lives” anti-gun protest on Saturday. They decried gun violence in their schools and criticized the National Rifle Association (NRA) response to mass shootings that have swept the country in recent years. They delivered a message to politicians funded by the gun lobby that they will “never again” let mass shootings happen because of easy access to guns. The vast numbers and intense feelings pervading the march may signal that an absolutist view of “gun rights”—that the Second Amendment is inviolable and should be allowed to trump students’ safety at school—will no longer be tolerated in the mainstream. Among the March’s demands are a moratorium on AR-15 assault weapons, a ban on bump stocks and other devices which render guns into fully automatic weapons, mandatory background checks and an increase in the age of eligibility to purchase guns.

Students Organizing For ‘March For Our Lives’ And More

March 23, 2018 By Emily C. Bell, AlterNet Resist! Gun Control, Student Activism

These students are not just mobilizing their peers to fill the streets this weekend, but to change laws. Guided by the messaging of the national March For Our Lives, the students are calling for universal background checks, banning high-capacity magazines and ending the sale of assault weapons. Student organizers across the country voiced frustration with inaction from their representatives, but are prepared to take on leadership where their elected officials will not. “If adults aren’t going to end this, if Congress isn’t going to end this, if everyone’s just going to keep talking in circles, then we’ll stand up and we’ll fix this ourselves, we’ll do the work where adults haven’t been willing to,” Pierce said.

This Time Students Are Old Enough To Organize, Mobilize And Speak Out

February 21, 2018 Danielle Vabner, Huffingtonpost.com Resist! Mass Shootings, Student Activism, Youth, Youth Activism

Last week on Valentine’s Day, a 19-year-old gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where he had been expelled. He opened fire just outside the school, and soon began shooting students in hallways and classrooms using an AR-15. Minutes later, 17 students and staff were dead, and 15 others were injured. We are just a month and a half into 2018, and already the number of school shootings since Dec. 31 has risen into the teens. Predictably, as with every other time innocent Americans have been gunned down in schools, movie theaters, at concerts, or in places of worship, politicians took to social media to offer up “thoughts and prayers” rather than the legislative action we so desperately need. More than five years ago, my 6-year-old brother Noah was shot and killed in his first-grade classroom in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Indiana Grad Students Protesting Tax Bill

December 15, 2017 Sarah Jaffe, truth-out.org Resist! Protests, Student Activism, Tax Reform, Taxes

Today we bring you a conversation with Tracey Hutchings-Goetz, Edward Brudney, Justin Knight, Kathryn Lehman, Amanda Waterhouse and Liam Kingsley. They are Ph.D. candidates or graduate students at Indiana University, and all are involved in Campus Action for Democracy. They discuss their recent occupation of their congressman's office in opposition to the tax bill and how disconnected they felt from their representative, who was unwilling to engage these constituents. Sarah Jaffe: I am talking to all of you because you had an occupation of your congressman's office Monday. Tell us about that action and how that went.

Arrests, Anger, Anxiety As Grad Students Visit Paul Ryan’s Office

December 7, 2017 Nick Roll, insidehighered.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Activism, Tax Reform

By Nick Roll for Inside Higher Ed - WASHINGTON -- As the competing Republican tax plans from the House of Representatives and the Senate head to a conference committee that will square the differences and create a final piece of legislation, graduate students are worried. A group of 40 or so activists and graduate students, organized in part by Faculty Forward and the Service Employees International Union, took their concerns to Capitol Hill Tuesday in a protest outside the office of Representative Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House. Upon coming to the office’s locked door, the protesters held their demonstration in the hallway. It was a short-lived affair, with police quickly arresting nine people who declined to move after being given a warning. However, the protest captured the anxiety some graduate students expressed regarding the tax legislation, especially provisions stemming from the House bill. “If it’s filled with any, or most of, the provisions aimed at higher ed, then I’ll have to drop out of my program,” said Tom DePaola, a doctoral candidate in education policy at the University of Southern California and one of the nine protesters arrested. Graduate students who took to the Hill, many of them organizers at their respective graduate student unions, took issue with a broad range of measures presented in the tax overhaul, for reasons related to higher education and not. But, some said, if the tax legislation was going to pass, they hoped that some of the provisions in the House bill would be stripped in conference.

Iran Protests ‘Hostile’ U.S. To Mark 1979 Embassy Takeover

November 6, 2017 Staff, telesurtv.net Resist! Iran, Protests, Student Activism, US Imperialism

By Staff of Tele Sur - Iranian protesters demonstrated against continued U.S. hostility towards Iran to commemorate the day students occupied Tehran's U.S. embassy in 1979. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran in protest at ongoing U.S. aggression on the anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover by students in 1979. To mark the National Day of Fight against Global Arrogance on Saturday, demonstrators condemned U.S. intervention in the region, calling attention to President Donald Trump’s recent remarks against the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). Protesters denounced Trump's decision to decertify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal. Trump argued that Tehran had failed to comply with the agreement’s demands, despite international observers affirming otherwise. Hasan Shorjeh, a retired teacher carrying a “Down With America” placard, told the LA Times that Iran had no reason to respect the deal if the U.S. refused to uphold its end of the agreement.

Student Organizers Win Transgender Equality Battle In Maryland

October 12, 2017 Tod Perry, www.education.good.is Create! Maryland, Student Activism, Transgender

By Tod Perry for Good Education - The group’s efforts led the school board to vote 5 to 1 to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that fit with their identity. They can also participate in sports that align with their gender identity as well. Children who are uncomfortable with the new policy are provided with non-stigmatizing alternatives such as privacy curtains or changes to their locker room schedules. “I see it as one of the most comprehensive transgender student policies in the country,” Jabari Lyles, executive director of GLSEN Maryland, a group that advocates for LGBTQ students, told The Washington Post. The policy took effect over summer vacation is already facing a legal challenge. A lawsuit was filed in August on behalf of the mother of a 15-year-old student who feels the policy makes her unsafe and that she’s humiliated to undress in front of the “opposite sex.” The suit was filed by Dan Cox, a Republican candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018. To show support for their transgender classmates, students have started a social media campaign #IAmFrederick.

Jeff Sessions Is Met With Protest At Georgetown Law

September 27, 2017 Karen Sloan, www.law.com Resist! Free Speech, Higher Education, Jeff Sessions, Protests, Student Activism

By Karen Sloan for Law - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions received a frosty reception from some students and faculty at Georgetown University Law Center, where he delivered a talk on free speech Tuesday. In anticipation of his arrival, 30 faculty members on Monday released a letter stating that Sessions was an inappropriate speaker to tackle that subject because he and the Trump administration have repeatedly attacked First Amendment rights. About 130 students claimed on Monday that their tickets to Sessions’ talk were revoked. “It is extraordinarily hypocritical that AG Sessions wants to lecture future attorneys about the importance of free speech on campus while excluding the wider student body from his very own ‘safe space,’” said Daniel Blauser, president of the campus’ chapter of the American Constitution Society. On Tuesday, about 100 protestors gathered in front of the law school, some with duct tape on their mouths and carrying signs critical of Sessions, according to The Washington Post. Sessions’ speech comes as several college campuses have been rocked by free speech controversies. Violent protests or the fear of such have led to the cancellation several planned speeches by conservatives at the University of California, Berkeley. Sessions spoke for about a half hour, referencing recent free speech incidents at UC Berkeley, Virginia Tech, Brown University, and Middlebury College. “Freedom of thought and speech are under attack,” Sessions said. “It is transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and homogeneous thought—a shelter for fragile egos.”

Why This Temple Student Is Organizing A March For Black Women: ‘They Matter’

August 21, 2017 Sofiya Ballin, www.philly.com Organize! Black Women, Higher Education, March, Philadelphia, Student Activism

By Sofiya Ballin for Philly.com The message is fitting. It was Malcolm who said: “The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.” Those words replay in Fenner’s head as she plans her first march, “A March for Black Women,” scheduled to take place Friday. Demonstrators will set out at 1 p.m. from City Hall to Cecil B. Moore Avenue to celebrate and highlight the diversity of black women and honor black women who were victims of police brutality. Fenner is spreading word of the march through social media and hopes to have a large turnout of women — and men. The 19-year-old Temple University sophomore and Philadelphia native said it’s to “celebrate black women for who they are and not what the media wants them to be.” “I’ve been to plenty of marches for black men who have been harassed or killed by police,” she said. “But when I went to one for Sandra Bland, it was very small.” In 2015, Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, died in police custody after being arrested during a traffic stop in Texas. Fenner also recalled that in 2016, Korryn Gaines, 23, was shot by police in her Baltimore home with her 5-year-old son close by. But, she said, “nobody was marching.”

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