Student Activism

The Northern Student Movement

December 20, 2015 Andy Piascik, www.zcomm.org Organize! Civil Rights, Racism, Student Activism

By Andy Piascik for Znet. New Haven, CT - College students were an integral part of the popular upheaval of the 1960’s. Beginning with the lunch counter sit-ins one month into the decade and continuing on through 1969 and beyond, college students around the country rallied to the cause of justice and freedom. The two best known student organizations of that time were the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for Student a Democratic Society (SDS). Another important group, though less well known, was the Northern Student Movement (NSM) and it was founded in Connecticut on the campus of Yale University.

Princeton, Woodrow Wilson And A Debate About Campus Activism

December 6, 2015 Alan Gilbert, www.democratic-individuality.blogspot.com Resist! Princeton, Racism, Student Activism, Woodrow Wilson

By Alan Gilbert for Democratic Individuality. Wilson was an unapologetic racist whose administration rolled back the gains that African-Americans achieved just after the Civil War, purged black workers from influential jobs and transformed the government into an instrument of white supremacy. The protesters’ top goal — convincing the university to rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the residential complex known as Wilson College — has drawn heavy fire from traditionalists. But the fact that racist policies enacted during Wilson’s presidency are still felt in the country today makes it imperative that the university’s board of trustees not be bound by the forces of the status quo. Wilson, who took office in 1913, inherited a federal government that had been shaped during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when thousands of African-American men and women passed Civil Service examinations or received political appointments that landed them in well-paying, middle-class government jobs in which they sometimes supervised white workers. This was anathema to Wilson, who believed that black Americans were unworthy of full citizenship and admired the Ku Klux Klan for the role it had in terrorizing African-Americans to restrict their political power.

Newsletter: Past And Present Myths Are Indivisible

November 29, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Climate Justice, COP21, Fight for 15, Guantanamo, Income inequality, Indigenous Rights, militarism, Our Walmart, Paris, Police violence, Racism, Student Activism, Thanksgiving, Wars and Militarism, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. This week two remarkable reports came out about US militarism. The first by James Lucas, documented that the US has killed 20 to 30 million people in 37 nations in wars since World War II. The second by Nicholas Davies showed the impacts of US militarism since 9/11 finding 120,000 air strikes in seven countries, occupation of Afghanistan for 14 years, Iraq for over 8 years, and destruction of Libya, Syria and Yemen, 1.6 million people killed, mostly civilians, and 59.5 million people driven from their homes.US military why did you kill my family This is quite a remarkable record. These reports coincided with the celebration of Thanksgiving. Popular Resistance published eight articles debunking the founding myths and highlighting reality of genocide against the Indigenous to take their land and slavery of Africans brought to the United States for free labor. There are deep problems in the US culture. They are built on myths that cover-up genocide, slavery, racism and poverty wages. All transformations begin with a revolution of the mind. We need to change the American consciousness.

MIT Sit-In For Climate Action

November 29, 2015 Sit-In For Climate Action, www.mitsitin.org Resist! Climate Change, MIT, Student Activism

By Sit-In For Climate Action. MIT’s Climate Plan doesn’t add up. So we’re sitting-in. Why we’re urging our administration to raise the ambition of their Plan. We write from the office doorstep of MIT’s President, where on October 22, we began a sit-in in response to the President’s announcement of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change (hereafter ‘Plan’). As President Reif acknowledged, the Plan originally “emerged in response to” Fossil Free MIT’s ongoing call, since April 2013, for MIT to divest its now $13.5 billion endowment from fossil fuel companies. Here, we share our take on MIT’s Plan and explain why it has left us no choice but to respectfully plant ourselves, around-the-clock, along MIT’s corridor of power to call for a bolder approach. 39 DAYS (and counting...)

Newsletter: Youth Recognize Their Power & Build It

November 15, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Democracy, Fight for 15, Immigration, Occupy, Paris, Peace, Plutocracy, Racism, Student Activism, Student Debt, Student Protests, Terrorism, Tuition, Wages, Youth

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Youth are rising up. They have been showing leadership on multiple fronts of struggle. They see a broken system dysfunctional government that is corrupted by money. It is unable to respond to the crisis of climate change; the reality of systemic racism; students graduating with massive debt in a poor job market and so many other issues. Politicians aren’t the only voices with power. We have power, too. And we have more power when we act together. Young people don’t live single-issue lives. We live at the intersection of the most pressing problems today. Our movements are connected and our purpose is huge. Martin Luther King described the civil rights movement as a time when the “people moved their leaders, not the leaders who moved the people.” If enough of us push together toward a new vision, the world will begin to move. That is a message we should all take to heart. We should continue to exercise our power, continue to fight injustices and as we do so, our power will grow.

Student Labor Committee Protests Termination Of Contract Worker

November 1, 2015 By, Jessica Lynn, www.dailycal.org Resist! Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Jessica Lynn for the Daily Californian - UCPD issued a final admonishment about 8 p.m., and eight students whorefused to leave were forcibly removed and cited with trespassing and disrupting a business. The students were given a Nov. 30 court date. Performance First has been under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor after its employees alleged that the company underpaid workers who clean campus athletic facilities and refused to pay them for overtime. Zuniga, who has worked for Performance First for four years, said through a translator that she was told by her manager that Thursday was her last day. She said she was only offered an opportunity to transfer to the Simpson Center, a campus athlete-training facility, where her workdays would be cut to three a week. She added that as a single mother of three children, with one daughter entering college this year, she would not be able to support her family working less than 40 hours per week.

First-Ever March For Free College Expands To Nearly 100 Campuses

November 1, 2015 Amanda Girard, www.usuncut.com Resist! College, Free education, Student Activism

By Amanda Girard for US Uncut - On November 12, thousands of college students in nearly 100 cities are walking out of class to demand tuition-free public college, a cancellation of all student debt, and a $15/hour minimum wage for campus workers across the US. The protest has been dubbed the “Million Student March.” “Higher education is in a state of crisis,” said Million Student March organizer Keely Mullen in an interview with US Uncut. “We need to build a mass movement against the system of corporate higher education.” “We’re ready to fight back. We’re waking up with empty hands and empty pockets and realizing that we shouldn’t be shackled to debt before we even enter the adult world,” Mullen said. “It feels more and more like education is just not a priority of our government or our system.” A multitude of organizational powerhouses are involved in organizing the Million Student March, which, according to the official Facebook event page, is taking place at 87 campuses as of the time of this writing — nearly quadrupling the number of actions planned from just a month ago.

7 Days till Shutdown: Homeless Students Need Same Internet Access

October 31, 2015 Staff, www.voqal.com Petitions and Online Actions Homelessness, Pennsylvania, Student Activism, Student Protests

By Staff of Voqal - When families with students enrolled at Central Pennsylvania Digital Learning Foundation can’t afford Internet access, the cyber school provides affordable solutions through Mobile Citizen. According to Technology Coordinator Micheal Tambellini, the number of families requiring connectivity assistance is growing. “We have a small percentage of homeless students enrolled today, and unfortunately that number seems to be increasing,” he said. “To keep up with the curriculum, they need the same Internet access as all of our other cyber students.”

Westboro Baptist Just Messed With The Wrong Group Of Students

October 7, 2015 James Michael Nichols, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Protests, Student Activism

James Michael Nichols for The Huffington Post, A crowd of high school students drove Westboro Baptist Church protestors away from their school in Kansas City, Missouri last week where the hate group gathered to protest the recent election of a transgender girl as homecoming queen. Westboro showed up to picket Oak Park High School on Thursday, Oct. 1, but were met by a rally of students already gathered to support transgender homecoming queen Landon Patterson. Westboro was driven away from their picketing site by counter-protestors carrying signs with phrases such as "Westboro Baptist Church need Jesus" and chanting "long live the queen!"

Roosevelt High School Students Walkout To Protest Budget Cuts

October 7, 2015 Patty Wetli, www.dnainfo.com Resist! Education, Protests, Student Activism

By Patty Wetli for DNAinfo - ALBANY PARK — Hundreds of students walked out of Roosevelt High School Monday to protest district budget and staff cuts. Chanting "save our teachers" and "cut it with the budget cuts," students were reacting to news that, in the wake of lower than projected enrollment, more than $650,000 had been slashed from Roosevelt's budget, resulting in the anticipated loss of 10 teachers. "These are teachers we've grown up with and love," said senior Kimoni Gaston, among those taking part in the walkout. The school has taken a number of financial hits in recent years, which left Gaston "afraid they're going to shut down Roosevelt." Students said they began organizing the walkout via text and social media after Roosevelt Principal Pilar Vazquez-Vialva shared news of the staff cuts at an assembly last week.

Report Reveals 9 Israel Lobby Tactics To Silence Students

October 2, 2015 Nora Barrow-Friedman, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Israel, Palestine, Student Activism

By Nora Barrow-Friedman for The Electronic Antifada - Lawyers have responded to nearly 300 incidents of “censorship, punishment, or other burdening of advocacy for Palestinian rights” filed by Palestine solidarity activists on more than 65 US campuses in the last year and a half. Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) detail the assault in a new 124-page report, “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US.” “As the movement for Palestinian rights is growing in the US, so too are concerted efforts to silence any and all criticism of Israel,” said Radhika Sainath, staff attorney with Palestine Legal and cooperating counsel with CCR.

Activists Target Newspaper Critiquing #BlackLivesMatter

September 25, 2015 Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Media, Student Activism

By Tyler Kingkade in The Huffington Post - A group of activists at Wesleyan University want the school's student government to defund the campus newspaper for publishing a controversial op-ed that criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. At least 172 students, staff and recent alumni signed a petition asking that the Wesleyan Argus lose all funding until it meets a number of demands. Signatories pledged to boycott the Argus because it does not "provide a safe space for the voices of students of color and we are doubtful that it will in the future." The Sept. 14 op-ed in question was written by Bryan Stascavage, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who is a staff writer for the Argus and a member of the class of 2018. Stascavage criticized Black Lives Matter for its role in creating an atmosphere that facilitated and condoned violence, and questioned whether the movement had "the potential for positive change."

Lakeland Students: “Won’t Let This Happen In Publix’s Hometown!”

September 23, 2015 Coalition of Immokalee Workers, www.ciw-online.org Resist! Farmworkers, Florida, Food and Agriculture, Social Change, Student Activism

By Coalition of Immokalee Workers - This past Thursday, in a classroom just miles from Fair Food holdout Publix’s corporate headquarters in Lakeland, FL, a crowd of over sixty Southeastern University students, professors, staff, and Lakeland community members gathered to learn about the CIW’s groundbreaking work for farmworker justice and of the shameful, six-year refusal of their hometown supermarket, Publix, to join the CIW’s Fair Food Program. The began the evening with a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary “Food Chains“. Lakelanders’ response to the film was strong and clear: excitement at the tremendous gains of the CIW, and dismay that their hometown grocer has refused to take responsibility for farmworker exploitation in its supply chain.

U of Delaware: Gun Rights Speaker Ignites Protest On The Green

September 23, 2015 Patrick Witterschein and Matt Moore, www.udreview.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Gun Rights, Student Activism

By Patrick Witterschein and Matt Moore in UD Review - Hands folded and legs crossed on a gray couch, acting president Nancy Targett smiled as her eyes surveyed a back room at the Center for Black Culture, surrounded by student activists. “That was really powerful, that was just so powerful,” she said, referring to the emotionally charged #BlackLivesMatter protest that took place Monday night outside Mitchell Hall. Moments before, the small group of student leaders were joined by fellow classmates at the steps of the historic building to voice their opposition to keynote speaker Katie Pavlich, who was asked to speak by the registered student organization, Students for the Second Amendment.

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