Student Activism

Students Protest Tar Sands In Canada

July 5, 2015 Staff, www.sackvilletribunepost.com Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Student Activism, Tar Sands

By Staff for the Sackville Tribune Post. About a dozen university students walked into Dominic Leblanc’s office in Shediac this afternoon demanding he sign a letter pledging substantive action on climate change. The sit-in was coordinated with six other student protests across Canada in an effort to halt tar sands expansion. Students occupied MP offices in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. LeBlanc, the Liberal party’s house leader, has not explicitly addressed the expansion of the tar sands despite voting to “ensure Canada assumes its responsibilities in preventing dangerous climate change.” Student protesters said this contradiction is unacceptable. “We continue to hear political leaders say they’re committed to action on climate change, but their support of tar sands expansion and major industrial infrastructure projects like the Energy East pipeline, run completely counter to those commitments,” said Emma Jackson, a graduate of Mount Allison University. “It tells us that they’re paying lip service to climate action but are unwilling to take the steps that are required to drastically curb emissions.”

Thai Students Vow To Continue Democracy Struggle, Despite Arrests

July 3, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Democracy, Law, Student Activism, Thailand

By Ashoka Jegroo in Waging NonViolence - After days of protests against the ruling military junta, police in Thailand arrested 14 students on June 26 for violating the ban on public gatherings. The students had staged multiple protests in Bangkok this week against the junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order, as well as the charges brought upon students for staging a protest on May 22 — the one-year anniversary of the junta’s seizure of power from former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The junta, led by now-Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, overthrew Yingluck, Thailand’s first female prime minister, in a bloodless coup last year after months of violent protests against her elected-but-corrupt regime.

Shivaani’s Journey As A Transgender Indian Woman

July 3, 2015 Setareh Baig, www.fsunews.com Organize! India, LGBTQ, Liberation, Student Activism, usa

By Setareh Baig in FSU News - Ehsaan helped inaugurate Transgender Liberation Front, a Tallahassee organization that advocates for transgender women, specifically women in color. They advocated and helped stop FL HB 583, which would have prevented transgender individuals from using the bathrooms of their choice. In April, she gave a TED Talk entitled "Trans Liberation in Communities of Color" to over 500 students on FSU's campus. "Be real with yourself," Ehsaan said. "Be what you want to be, and don't allow societal constructs to hold you back. If you want to wear a dress and still wear your beard, do that. Express your authentic self. Admit to the world who you really are and not who they want you to be."

Long Distance Running: Interview W/ Veteran Peace Activist Doug Allen

June 27, 2015 Andy Piascik and Doug Allen, www.zcomm.org Organize! Activism, Education, Higher Education, Student Activism, Wars and Militarism

By Andy Piascik and Doug Allen in Zcomm - Anyone who has done organizing on a college campus knows the difficulty of sustaining such work. Faculty come and go, students enroll and graduate, and even the most vibrant campaigns come to an abrupt end. In the best of circumstances, organizations, particularly activist ones, seldom last more than a few years. When Doug Allen arrived at the University of Maine in 1974, he helped found the Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC) even though he had just recently been fired for his activist work by Southern Illinois University. Remarkably, 41 years later, MPAC is still going strong, continuing, among other things, to publish its newsletter, sponsor events, tackle campus issues, and participate in broader campaigns.

Victory: Columbia First University To Divest From Private Prisons

June 24, 2015 Shelly Banjo, www.qz.com Resist! Divestmenet, Prison, Student Activism

By Shelly Banjo in QZ - Columbia University, which manages a $9.2 billion endowment, has decided to pull its money from companies that run private prisons, citing the “larger, ongoing discussion of the issue of mass incarceration that concerns citizens from across the ideological spectrum.” The move, announced by the school’s trustees, comes in response to student-led protests that drew attention to the economics of fast-growing private prisons. Unlike crammed and underfunded state and federally run prisons that benefit when there are fewer inmates, private prisons are incentivized to take in more people to their facilities. The industry also has been criticized for targeting immigrants and minorities.

Massive Marches In Chile For Education Reform Face Violent Police

June 12, 2015 Jennifer Baker, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Chile, Education, Student Activism

By Jennifer Baker in Revolution News - About 350 thousand people marched throughout the cities of Chile on Wednesday against proposed changes to the education system. Some 200 thousand people marched in the capital of Santiago. Wednesday’s march and Thursday’s events (below) were planned to coincide with Chile’s national men’s soccer(football) team participates in the opening game of the Copa Americas. High School students joined teachers and professors who are now on their second week of an indefinite strike. Wednesday’s events were organized by the Confederation of Chilean students (CONFECH), The college of teachers, the National Coordinator of Secondary Students (Cones) And The House Coordinator of Secondary Students (ACES). CONFECH estimated their group alone at 200 Thousand participants.

Arne Duncan’s False Promise To Forgive Debts At For-Profit Schools

June 12, 2015 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Education, Obama, Student Activism, Student Debt

By Glen Ford in Black Agenda Report - Arne Duncan, President Obama’s Secretary of Education, claims his department is prepared toforgive the debts of thousands of students who attended the Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit rip-off conglomerate that filed for bankruptcy last month. Duncan chose his words carefully, claiming that the federal government is putting together a process that would forgive the loans of any student who can show that she had been defrauded by any college – Coriinthian or some other school. Duncan is, of course, lying. His own department estimates it would cost as much as $3.5 billion to provide debt relief to the 350,000 students that have had the misfortune to attend Corinthian schools over the past five years.

Debt Resistors Protests Dept Of Education Debt Relief Program

June 10, 2015 Debt Collective, www.blog.debtcollective.org Resist! Education, Law, Student Activism, Student Debt

By Debt Collective - Just as Corinthian Colleges portrayed its programs as a path to a better life when they were in fact debt traps, the Department of Education is portraying a process that re-victimizes students as a solution to a problem they created. If Education Secretary Arne Duncan was truly “committed to making sure students receive every penny of relief they are entitled to under law” he would sign the “Order for Discharge of Federal Student Loan Debts” the Debt Collective sent him last week, immediately and automatically discharging Corinthian students' debts. Students are entitled to receive full relief under law.

U. Of C. Barricade Torn Down, 9 Arrested At Trauma Center Protest

June 6, 2015 Sam Cholke, www.dnainfo.com Resist! Chicago, health, Student Activism

By Sam Cholke in DNAinfo - Police and firefighters broke through the wall and window of a University of Chicago administration building Wednesday evening after nine protesters barricaded themselves inside, demanding a meeting with the university president to discuss opening a trauma center. The protest began around 4 p.m. Wednesday, with police and firefighters beginning to force their way in around 6 p.m. They broke through drywall with axes, used crowbars to pry open a window frame, then used a power saw to cut through a bike lock that was keeping doors closed. University officials said the protesters were blocking access for the disabled and needed to be moved. All nine protesters were put in handcuffs around 6:30 p.m. and taken away by police to Wentworth District headquarters.

The Renaissance of Student Activism

May 27, 2015 Alia Wong, www.theatlantic.com Resist! Education, Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs

Just as has been happening in communities at large, campus protests against racism and bigotry—along with related types of discrimination—have become commonplace. Students at the University of Chicago hosted a#LiabilityoftheMind social-media campaign last November to raise awareness about institutional intolerance. A “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” walkout was staged the same month by hundreds of Seattle high-schoolers. Roughly 600 Tufts students lay down in the middle of traffic in December for four and a half hours—the amount of time Michael Brown’s body was left in the street after behind shot. Students at numerous other colleges did the same. Of course, there were other common themes, too. Early last fall, Emma Sulkowicz, then a student at Columbia, pledged to carry a mattress on campus daily to protest the school’s refusal to expel her alleged rapist. Soon, hundreds of her classmates joined her, as did those at 130 other college campuses nationwide, according to reports.

Students For Justice In Palestine Builds Support With In-Your-Face Push

May 21, 2015 David McCleary, www.forward.com Resist! Israel, Palestine, Solidarity, Student Activism

For Jewish student groups, the increasingly contentious campus fight on behalf of Israel is one that takes place at established, centralized institutions like Hillel, with support and tutelage from deep-pocketed national groups. Its preferred mode of operation consists, for the most part, of friendly public information campaigns, earnest seminars and panel discussions, and welcoming luncheons and the occasional Sabbath dinner with guest speakers who receive generous honorariums. But on campus after campus these days, this pro-Israel movement’s primary antagonist is a group whose make-up and tactics are almost the polar opposite.

Students Occupy For 2nd Night To Protest Austerity

May 19, 2015 Richard Wheatstone , Helen Johnson, www.mirror.co.uk Resist! England, Student Activism

Around 30 students are set to spend a second evening barricaded inside a building at the University of Manchester in protest at government cuts. The protesters are refusing to leave after occupying the Manchester Business School building yesterday afternoon. A group called Free Education MCR have claimed they set up the occupation to make a stand against five more years of 'Tory cuts and privatisation' following last week's general election. The University of Manchester has said the protest is causing disruption to the institution but has made arrangements for students to remain safe while inside. See below for a recap of how events unfolded earlier today.

Manchester University Anti-Tory Cuts Demonstration

May 16, 2015 Richard Wheatstone and Helen Johnson, www.mirror.co.uk Resist! Student Activism, United Kingdom (UK)

A Surge Of Student Strikes Upsets Romania

May 16, 2015 Teodor Fleseru, www.occupy.com Resist! Education, Romania, Strikes, Student Activism

Students this month from several Romanian universities have occupied amphitheaters, sleeping in overnight, threatening with a hunger strike and boycotting midterm exams. Fed up with government passivity for the past eight years, and with the inefficiency of an Education, Research and Innovations Ministry that always promises and never delivers, the students are demanding 6% of the gross domestic product be allotted to education. In Timișoara, the students occupied a bus used to transport them from one school to another – only this time they used it to talk other students into joining the protest gig, voicing their hopes, beliefs and anger along the way.

Tufts Students Stage ‘Indefinite’ Hunger Strike Against Janitor Layoffs

May 6, 2015 Rachel Luban, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Higher Education, Labor, Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs

Tufts University students launched a hunger strike and took over a quad next to the Medford/Somerville campus’s main administrative building Sunday to protest planned layoffs of 35 janitors. Five undergraduates joined the “indefinite” hunger strike as a show of solidarity with the janitors, 17 percent of whom are slated to lose their jobs. Dozens more students set up tents on a quad they plan to occupy day and night until the cuts are halted. Adelaida Colon, a custodian at Tufts for the past 18 years, doesn’t know what she’d do if she lost her job. “It would affect me immensely,” she says. Her husband is disabled and hasn’t been able to work for 12 years, making her the breadwinner. “He depends on me, because his income is very small, $800 a month.”

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