Student Activism

Celebrating Teenage Troublemakers

September 21, 2015 Kathryn Seidewitz, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Student Activism, Youth

By Kathryn Seidewitz in Waging Non-Violence - “Teenage Rebels: Successful High School Activists from the Little Rock 9 to the Class of Tomorrow” offers up the remedy to my predicament. With dozens of accounts of high schoolers rising up, Dawson Barrett paints a picture of teenagers as passionate people with the power to evoke change. He offers a variety of examples from Sybil Ludington’s ride to warn of the British invasion in 1777, to the sit-in movement of the 1960s to a 2009 protest in Norfolk, Virgina against a curfew at a local mall. About half of the case studies illustrate examples of high school students organizing for student power. The other half give examples of students working in tandem with larger movements or organizing on behalf of ousted or threatened school officials. As Barrett points out in the introduction, the protests he writes about were rarely successful. Indeed, his accounts often end short of a result or follow-up. They are glimpses into a certain time and feeling.

Colleges Flush With Cash Saddle Poorest Students With Debt

September 15, 2015 Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei, www.propublica.org Educate! Debt, Education, Loans, Student Activism

By Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei in ProPublica - A ProPublica analysis based on new data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that students from low-income families graduate from NYU saddled with huge federal loans. The school’s Pell Grant recipients – students from families that make less than $30,000 a year – owe an average of $23,250 in federal loans after graduation. That’s more federal loan debt than low-income students take on at for-profit giant University of Phoenix, though NYU graduates have higher earnings and default less on their debt. NYU is not the only university with a billion-dollar endowment to leave its poorest students with heavy debt loads. More than a quarter of the nation’s 60 wealthiest universities leave their low-income students owing an average of more than $20,000 in federal loans.

Seattle: Students Lead Protests To Change School & Transit Policies

August 29, 2015 Ifrah Abshir, www.occupy.com Resist! Education, Immigration, Racial Justice, Student Activism

By Ifrah Abshir in Occupy - For so long we have been told that there is no funding in the district budget to give RBHS the support it needs. Built in 1960, our school is the only one in the district that has not yet received a full renovation. Just last year we had nearly 15 power outages, some of them causing us to attend school in the dark and cold, or even to close school for the day. Our school still has chalkboards, whereas schools in whiter and more affluent neighborhoods have smart boards and more advanced technological tools that enhance student learning. Each year, students here organize walk outs and protests, and attend school board and city hall meetings – but we only receive promises of a new building. Promises that go unfulfilled. Another public school policy that disproportionately affects students and families of lower income is the "Walk-Zone" rule.

‘I Learned More Leading Student-Debt Strike Than I Did at College’

August 23, 2015 Nathan Hornes, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Higher Education, Strike Debt, Student Activism, Student Debt

By Nathan Hornes for Yes! Magazine - Soon after we started our campaign, Debt Collective, a debt resistance group that grew out of Occupy Wall Street, contacted us. They had heard some of the complaints about Everest and had also heard about our activism. When we met with them they told us how they had recently figured out a way to buy medical debt for pennies on the dollar and abolish it. They wanted to start doing the same for student loan debt. The people we met through Debt Collective also told us about how Corinthian Colleges—the group of colleges Everest belongs to—had been screwing over students across the country. Up until then I’d thought it was just my campus, but then I began to understand that tons of people were dealing with our same problems. Debt Collective helped us take our campaign to the next level. Now I’m known as the guy who helped shape the very first student debt strike.

Chicago Organizers Lead Hunger Strike To Save Dyett High School

August 19, 2015 The Alliance To Reclaim Our Schools, www.reclaimourschools.org Resist! Chicago, Education, Student Activism

By The Alliance To Reclaim Our Schools - Dear Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools Family, Today, 11 parents, teachers and community supporters began a hunger strike at Dyett High School on the south side of Chicago in order to finally win our sustainable community school, the Dyett Global Leadership and Green Technology Academy. Dyett will be the hub of a "Sustainable Community School Village" with 6 primary feeder schools. Three years ago, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel announced the closing of Dyett High, the last open-enrollment public high school in Chicago’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood.

U. Of C. Bans Protesters Who Barricaded Themselves In Building

August 6, 2015 Sam Cholke, www.dnainfo.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Student Activism, University of California

By Sam Cholke in DNA Info - The University of Chicago has permanently banned from campus eight trauma protesters who barricaded themselves in a university building in June. The eight non-student protesters who participated in a protest on June 3 that ended in firefighters breaking down a wall and sawing through a door to remove them said they have all been permanently banned from the university campus. A ninth protester who was a student has not been banned. “It turns out every moment on campus into an act of civil disobedience,” said Alex Goldenberg, one of the eight arrested and an alumni of the university. “I don’t think it will stop any of us though.” Jeremy Manier, a university spokesman, said the protesters risked the safety of people of campus in their efforts to advocate for a trauma center at the university’s hospital, so the university is justified in the ban.

UC Unions Call On AFL-CIO To Terminate Police Union’s Membership

July 29, 2015 Mario Vasquez, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Labor Unions, police brutality, Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Mario Vasquez for In These Times - United Auto Workers Local 2865, the union representing 13,000 teaching assistants and other student workers throughout the University of California, called on the AFL-CIO to end its affiliation with the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) in a resolution passed by its governing body on July 25. The resolution came in the wake of a letter written by the UAW’s Black Interests Coordinating Committee (BICC). The group formed in December 2014 in response to the acquittals of police officers in the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner and is largely inspired by recent actions in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Rent Strike At UCL & SOAS Was Successful!

July 27, 2015 David Dahlborn, www.facebook.com Resist! Housing, Rent, Student Activism

By David Dahlborn in The Student Assembly - If we learn one thing from the recent rent strikes at University College London (UCL) and the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) it should be this: we won and we can win again. In 21st century London rent strikes still work. And we should use them frequently to win campaigns by concentrating our forces at our enemies’ weakest point. Oppressive rents, scumbag landlords and gentrification caused by property investment are rampant. There is talk across London and the country of the need for housing campaigns and a “fightback” against property owners and their landlord lackeys. What we have demonstrated is that, alongside well-practiced campaigning methods – demos, occupations and blockades – it will, above all, be rent strikes that enable us to coerce the ruling class to concede to our demands for better and affordable housing.

Can The Movement For Free, Quality Public Education Win In Chile?

July 24, 2015 Javier Gárate, www.wagingnonviolence.org Create! Austerity, Chile, Education, Privatization, Student Activism

By Javier Gárate in Waging Nonviolence - The next few months are of critical importance to Chile’s long-running education movement. President Michelle Bachelet has said she plans to implement comprehensive education reform this year, which will guarantee quality education for everyone. To ensure this happens, the movement has increased pressure on the government with huge protests by teachers and students last month, including an indefinite strike by the National Teachers Union that began June 1. Over the years, the movement has learned to temper its expectations. In 2011 — when protests were last at a peak — many thought change was imminent, only to suffer frustration and loss of momentum in the years that followed.

Hoax Asks Why Free College Tuition Not Being Discussed

July 21, 2015 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Create! Education, Student Activism, Student Debt

By Sarah Lazare in Common Dreams - A group of anti-debt camaigners pulled off a creative hoax on Monday by falsely announcing it had won a coveted prize offered by the nation's student "aid" industry with this innovative proposal: "end student debt for good by making higher education tuition free for all." Debt Collective, which is a new debtors' union that formed as an offshoot of Strike Debt, created a fake Twitter handle, blog post, and image announcing the group's receipt of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators' Big Idea award. The announcements were released right in the middle of a New Orleans conference of the NASFAA, which says it represents "20,000 student financial assistance professionals at approximately 3,000 colleges, universities." While Debt Collective's award announcement was fake, their proposal was completely real.

Occupy Summer School Teaches Teens How To Stage A Protest

July 15, 2015 Wendy Joan Biddlecombe, www.metro.us Resist! Education, Occupy, Student Activism

By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe in Metro - Marni Halasa usually turns heads in full length wedding dresses, scanty police costumes, or while gliding by on rollerblades in elaborate winged costumes. But last Friday, she was a blank canvas at the Urban Assembly Institute for Math and Science for Young Women, an all girls public school in downtown Brooklyn. Students from the school are learning how to stage an effective protest through Occupy Summer School, a three-week long course started by Occupy Alternative Banking. The class introduces the high school students to activism, activists and social movements. Cathy O'Neil, an Occupy member, former Barnard math professor and hedge fund anaylst, said the course will culminate with a protest of the students' choice on July 22.

Ten One Medicare For All National Day Of Action

July 11, 2015 Vanessa Doren, www.student.pnhp.org Organize! Medicine, Public Health, Student Activism

By Vanessa Doren in Student PNHP - For most of us in medicine, helping people live healthy, happy lives is at the heart of why we chose this career. We expound upon this in application essays, talk about it during interviews, and start medical school with this “calling” fresh in our minds. Very early in our medical careers – on the wards and in the classroom – we learn that inequality, preventable illness, and death are an inherent part of our current private, for-profit-oriented health insurance system. We see patients receive preventable amputations due to untreated diabetes. We see people permanently disabled by stroke because they were unable to afford their medications. College funds emptied out to pay for $100,000-a-year cancer treatments. Families bankrupted and lives destroyed.

Budget 2015: 100s Of People Launching Protest Outside Parliament

July 11, 2015 Ben Glaze, www.mirror.co.uk Resist! Austerity, Occupy, Student Activism, United Kingdom (UK), Youth

By Ben Glaze in Mirror - Campaigners will try to pitch tents in Parliament Square tomorrow as they launch an Occupy-style protest. Hundreds of young activists are expected to arrive in Westminster, demonstrating against billions of pounds of cuts announced by Chancellor George Osborne . Youth Fight for Jobs spokesman Ian Pattison said: “Osborne’s Budget represents a declaration of war on young people. “The abolition of student maintenance grants, removal of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds and exclusion of under-25s from the so-called ‘living wage’ all add up to a bleak picture for our generation. “This grim outlook of increasing hardship stands in stark contrast with Osborne’s treatment of the rich.

Activist Faces Charges Over Hong Kong ‘White Paper’ Protest

July 8, 2015 Tony Cheung and Joyce Ng, www.scmp.com Resist! China, Hong Kong, Occupy Central, Political Prisoner, Student Activism

By Tony Cheung and Joyce Ng in SCMP - Student leader Joshua Wong Chi-fung and three other activists are set to be charged with obstructing police officers during a protest outside the central government's liaison office last summer. They say the move by police, more than a year after the protest took place, appears like a political prosecution. In a WhatsApp message to the media yesterday, Wong, convenor of student group Scholarism, said he was at the airport checking in for a morning flight to Japan to go on holiday when he received a telephone call from Western District crime squad. He was told to report to police by Thursday, when he would be charged. He was accused of obstructing officers in carrying out their duty at a protest outside the liaison office in Western on June 11 last year.

Students Resist: Israel Criticism Is Not Anti-Semitism

July 8, 2015 Ben Norton, www.mondoweiss.net Resist! California, Israel, Palestine, Student Activism

By Ben Norton in Mondoweiss - The University of California (UC) Board of Regents, the governing body that oversees 10 campuses and approximately a quarter of a million students, is considering adopting the State Department definition of anti-Semitism, which conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. A variety of student organizations have pushed back against the regents’ initiative. United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, the union which represents over 13,000 student workers in the UC system; Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP); and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have publicly opposed the attempt to adopt the State Department definition. In a message to UC President Janet Napolitano, who supports the initiative, UAW “voice[d] strong opposition to the proposed adoption.”

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