Student Activism

Honduras: Assassination Of Student Leaders Prompts Protests

March 31, 2015 TeleSur, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Honduras, Protest, Student Activism

Soad Ham, a 13-year-old student leader of the Central Institute of Tegucigalpa who participated in the student protests against the Honduran government in the last two weeks, was found tortured and killed inside a plastic bag Wednesday. On Thursday, the opposition Libre Party called for protests against the assassination Ham and 3 other student leaders this week. The largest public high schools in the country have been protesting against the decision to change the class schedule, which will mean that the students in the afternoon will leave their schools at 7 p.m. – a very dangerous hour for students to be on the streets of Latin America’s most dangerous city. Public high schools are generally located in areas riddled with crime, and there is no public transportation services at those hours.

C.H.E. Supporters Occupy Cafe In Protest

March 31, 2015 Bruce B.Y. Lee, www.ucsdguardian.org Resist! California, Education, Student Activism

Members of the C.H.E. Cafe Collective demonstrated outside of the cafe’s premises on Tuesday, March 24 in protest of an eviction order from the administration. Members of the Collective have not abided by the joint resolution of A.S. Council and Graduate Student Association following a series of meetings held over the past few weeks. Instead, the members decided to rally against administration’s order, marching around the facility with megaphones and picket signs. According to Cameron Hughes, a press committee coordinator of the Collective, they don’t know how long the demonstration will last. it is unknown how long the demonstration will last.

UNC Students Urge School Stop Honoring KKK Leader

March 30, 2015 Tyler Kinkade, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Racial Justice, Student Activism

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are renewing a push for the school to change the name of a building named after a 19th-century Ku Klux Klan leader. Saunders Hall is named after William Saunders, a Confederate colonel who later became a chief organizer for the KKK in North Carolina. UNC named the building, which primarily houses the history department, in 1922 to honor Saunders' work compiling Colonial records. Students have been pushing the school to rename the building for years. This year, student activists are asking the university to rename it for Zora Neale Hurston -- who, prior to integration, was the school's first black student -- and to require that each student take a campus tour explaining the racial history of the university.

Growing Movement To Save Public Ed From Corporatism

March 30, 2015 Ruth Conniff, www.progressive.org Resist! Corporatism, Education, Student Activism

All over the country, a growing movement of parents, teachers, and students is rising up against over-testing, school closings, and shady schemes that channel public funds into private schools. Saving public education is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 Presidential campaign. In a front-page article this week, The New York Times described Hillary Clinton’s dilemma on so-called education reform. On one side, charter school operators and hedge fund managers are urging Hillary to adopt their teachers-union-bashing, pro-privatization agenda. On the other side, communities all over the country are experiencing education “reform” as a major threat to their local public schools.

Cuomo Protested Over Billionaire Backed Education Scheme

March 30, 2015 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Education, New York (NY), Student Activism, Teachers

The protest follows weeks of actions targeting the Cuomo administration as lawmakers weigh the governor's proposal to tie more than $1 billion in school aid to an overhaul of the teacher evaluation system, which places extra emphasis on standardized test scores. Hundreds of people rallied at the Albany Capitol on Thursday and last week teachers from upstate New York delivered the governor 1,000 apples—each representing "a local teaching position unfilled because of years of underfunding for public education." Groups say that the hedge fund and Wall Street billionaires, which "bought control over the New York State Senate this past election," are seeking to starve the public school system "through subsidies to private and parochial schools and through privately-run charter schools."

Students Occupy Buildings At London Universities

March 29, 2015 Jack Grove, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk Resist! Education, Neoliberalism, Student Activism, Student Protests

Students are occupying buildings at three London universities in what they claim is a nationwide protest against an “increasingly neoliberal, undemocratic and restrictive education system”. On the evening of 26 March, protests were taking place at the University of the Arts London, the London School of Economics and King’s College London in the wake of similar occupations in continental Europe, including one at the University of Amsterdam. Free education, more transparency in university decision-making and the introduction of the living wage are among the various demands of students involved in the London protests.

University Protests Around The World

March 28, 2015 Rebecca Ratcliffe, www.theguardian.com Resist! Capitalism, Education, Higher Education, Student Activism

Students at University of the Arts, London, took over their university’s reception area last Thursday to protest against proposed cuts to some of its course programmes. This makes UAL one of the latest institutions around the world to be hit by occupations and strikes by staff and students. The causes of such protests vary: some are concerned about working conditions facing graduate students, others point to a lack of transparency about how universities are run. A key issue is the commercialisation of higher education, which many feel has led university leaders to prioritise financial goals over the needs of staff and students. We speak to academics and students in Canada, the Netherlands and the UK to find out why they’re taking a stand.

Protests At Cooper Union On Tuition, NY Atty Gnrl Investigating

March 28, 2015 Gothamist, www.gothamist.com Resist! Law, New York City (NYC), Student Activism

The Wall Street Journal reports that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will probe the financial decisions made by the school that led to its reported insolvency, including a $175 million loan to build new facilities, potentially inaccurate numbers on the school's website, a bonus awarded to the president preceding the current administration, and the handling of the the land underneath the Chrysler Building, which belongs to the school and reportedly netted it $7 million annually. The AG's office will also investigate the school's decision to charge tuition. The school is currently in the midst of a lawsuit levied by a group of professors, alumni and students who claim the Board of Trustees could have avoided charging tuition—$20K per semester, starting with this school year's freshman class—if it weren't for a number of poor financial decisions.

Finishing School For Pickets; Learning Insubordination

March 25, 2015 Paula Giddings and Howard Zinn, www.huffingtonpost.com Strategize! History, Liberation, Respectability Politics, Student Activism, Women

Zinn was of Russian-Jewish heritage, an influential historian and, in 1960, a beloved professor at Spelman College, the historically black women’s institution in the then-segregated city of Atlanta. The attribution of “finishing school” in the title was well-earned: Spelman girls, whose acceptance letters included requests to bring white gloves and girdles with them to campus, were molded to honor the virtues of “true-womanhood”: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. Nevertheless, by 1960, Zinn’s students had morphed from “nice, well-mannered and ladylike” paragons of politesse to determined demonstrators who picketed, organized sit-ins, and were sometimes arrested and jailed for their efforts. “Respectability is no longer respectable among young Negro women attending college today,” Zinn concluded.

Montreal Students Announce Strike

March 23, 2015 Jennifer Baker, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Montreal, Quebec, Strike, Student Activism

The Montreal Gazette reported that organizers of the protest said this will be one of several demonstrations to be held over the next few months. “Today, we’re proud to launch a raucous spring,” said Fannie Poirier, spokesperson for the Spring 2015 protest committee. “Austerity measures have been presented as the lesser of evils to confront a deficient economy. But what we’re seeing … is a massive impoverishment of the population, full-frontal attacks on working conditions and a loss of security for society’s most vulnerable people.” The official spokesperson for student group ASSÉ, Camille Godbout, said more than 50,000 students will officially be on strike as of next Monday to protest against the provincial government’s austerity plan.

Columbia Students Urge Divestment From Private Prison

March 21, 2015 Clare Sastanovich, www.themarshallproject.org Resist! Law, Student Activism

In the late 1970s, on college campuses across the country, students banded together to demand that universities align their wallets with their consciences: They called for schools to divest from companies with ties to South Africa, to translate moral opposition to apartheid into tangible economic policy. Now, four decades after Columbia’s Coalition for a Free South Africa blockaded the steps of a university building, another divestment movement is trying to tackle what could become this generation’s signature cause: criminal justice reform. Columbia is one of several schools where students are demanding that university endowments take a visible stand against mass incarceration by divesting from private prison companies, which have faced criticism— and lawsuits — for rampant abuse and a lack of transparency.

Testing Public Education To Death In New York

March 19, 2015 George Joseph and John Tarleton, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Education, Student Activism, Testing

When discussing how to improve public education, Governor Andrew Cuomo likes to complain about how difficult it is to fire “bad teachers” and the need to reduce job security for classroom educators. He is not alone in this. The Partnership for Educational Justice, a well-funded nonprofit fronted by former CNN host Campbell Brown, is pursuing a lawsuit in a Staten Island court that seeks to scrap teacher tenure protections. Both New York City tabloids, meanwhile, never miss a chance to promote a lurid teacher sex scandal and then denounce the teachers union for protecting the right of the accused to a fair hearing. But what if the real teaching crisis in New York is not the inability to get rid of bad teachers, but the failure to keep experienced and highly capable teachers and allow them to do their jobs?

Oxford Alumni Occupation For Carbon Divestment

March 18, 2015 Oxford University Fossil Fuel Divestment, www.oxfordunifossilfree.wordpress.com Resist! Divestment, England, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Student Activism

Oxford alumni have occupied a university administration building to demonstrate their anger over today’s announcement that the university has deferred until May its decision on whether to divest from fossil fuels. The student campaign would like to issue a statement of solidarity with the alumni who have gone into occupation over the issue of fossil fuel divestment. We share their concern that the University is moving too slowly on this vitally important issue. Today’s events indicate the wide ranging support for divestment from University members past and present. We hope that today’s occupation will inspire others to express their support for meaningful climate action from Oxford University.

Quebec Students Plan One Of Largest Strikes In Canada History

March 16, 2015 Alan Jones, www.vice.com Resist! Canada, Quebec, Student Activism

Three years after staging the largest student protest in Canadian history, students in Quebec are gearing up for another one. Various media outlets may have threatened the same thing last year, and the year before, but the protests planned for the upcoming weeks are larger in scale than anything the province has seen since 2012. As of writing, 24 student organizations in Quebec, representing over 30,000 students at six university and CÉGEP campuses, have voted to strike as part of a protest against the Liberal government's austerity measures. Student organizations representing another 110,000 students are scheduled to carry out strike votes.

College Campus Racism Is Not Just Sigma Alpha Epsilon

March 13, 2015 Terrell Jermaine Starr, www.alternet.org Educate! Higher Education, Racial Justice, Student Activism

Zellie Thomas was at a meeting with members of the activist group #NJShutItDown Tuesday afternoon at Montclair University where participants reflected on the 9-second video that captured members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon chanting racist epithets. As the ten or so mostly college students began recalling racist incidents on their own campuses, they decided to lead a Twitter conversation about it using #NotJustSAE. “We know that this topic is relevant to a lot of students, especially at predominately white institutions,” Thomas, 30, the lead on conceiving the hashtag and advisor to #NJShutItDown, told AlterNet. “All of the racism they face and experience and the micro-aggressions get swept under the rug. It doesn’t get in the news, it doesn’t get its own hashtag. They just have to deal with it.”

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