Student Activism

Police Tear Gas Kids Protesting Removal Of Their Playground

January 21, 2015 Brian Ries, www.mashable.com Resist! Education, Kenya, police brutality, Student Activism

Police in Kenya on Monday tear gassed a group of schoolchildren who were demonstrating against the removal of their school's playground by powerful politician. The children eventually toppled the wall. Moments later, however, police shot tear-gas canisters into the crowd, sending the children scrambling. Local TV footage showed children writhing in pain, screaming and choking because of the tear gas. A group of students from Langata Road Primary School — between the ages of six and 14 and clad in their green and blue school uniforms — pushed down a wall erected around their playground. It was acquired by a private developer said to be a powerful politician, according to Boniface Mwangi, a Kenyan photojournalist at the scene.

Police Tear Gas Kids Protesting Removal Of Playground

January 20, 2015 Brian Ries, www.mashable.com Resist! Education, Kenya, Student Activism

Police in Kenya on Monday tear gassed a group of schoolchildren who were demonstrating against the removal of their school's playground by powerful politician. A group of students from Langata Road Primary School — between the ages of six and 14 and clad in their green and blue school uniforms — pushed down a wall erected around their playground. It was acquired by a private developer said to be a powerful politician, according to Boniface Mwangi, a Kenyan photojournalist at the scene. The children eventually toppled the wall. Moments later, however, police shot tear-gas canisters into the crowd, sending the children scrambling. Local TV footage showed children writhing in pain, screaming and choking because of the tear gas.

Youth Are Walking Out, Shutting Down, & Building Movements

January 19, 2015 Student Nation, www.alternet.com Resist! Education, Student Activism, Youth

On January 9, undocumented students from Georgia’s Freedom University, along with student allies, protested Georgia’s ban on undocumented students at public universities by holding an integrated class at the University of Georgia in Athens. This date marked the 54th anniversary of the racial desegregation of UGA. Our class featured lectures by human rights activists Lonnie King and Loretta Ross. Undocumented students identified themselves by wearing handmade monarch butterfly wings. When the building closed, we refused to leave until our demands that UGA’s President and the Georgia Board of Regents renounce and rescind Policies 4.1.6 and 4.3.4 were addressed. At 8 PM, police arrived and arrested nine activists, including four undocumented students. We are determined to continue fighting for the human right to education.

Students Take Over Board Meeting Protest School Closings

December 19, 2014 Danielle Sweeney, www.baltimorebrew.com Resist! Baltimore, Education, Student Activism

The Baltimore Algebra Project, an organization of youth education activists, seized control of the school board voting session last night and delayed a controversial vote on city school closures. As soon as the closure of Heritage High was announced, seven Algebra Project members staged a “die-in,” lying on the floor chanting, “The school board has failed us,” and “Black lives matter.” When it became clear the Algebra Project had taken over the meeting, the 10-member board left the room. Tre Murphy, one of the protesters, said to the board as they filed out, “Where are you going? You work for us.”

First University Program On Nonviolent Resistance

December 18, 2014 Priyanka Borpujari, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Civil Disobedience, Education, Student Activism

Perhaps never before has a professorship existed that was devoted to the knowledge of nonviolent action and civil resistance. It is also unique because the university sought a professor who is working with activists. So, the knowledge produced is also supposed to be knowledge that activists can use. A position like this means that nonviolent action and its knowledge is being more widely recognized today, as well as being used across different fields to understand why popular movements that apply unarmed means are so powerful and effective. At the same time, this means recognizing that there are some recurrent problems in movements, as we have seen in Egypt, Ukraine and elsewhere. So there is a need to understand what works and what doesn’t.

Penn Student Questioned In Dorm By Police Over Ferguson Posts

December 15, 2014 Dustin Slaughter, www.phillydeclaration.org Resist! Ferguson, Philadelphia, police brutality, Student Activism, Surveillance

Recent organizing and demonstrations around the issue of police accountability in Philly, set in motion by grand jury decisions in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY not to indict police officers who gunned down unarmed African American men, have taken a new, though rather historically familiar, twist. Laura Krasovitzky, a University of Pennsylvania student organizer, tells The Declaration that she was visited on the morning of December 8th by a Philadelphia Police Department detective, who she soon learned was in the Homeland Security Bureau, asking about posts in a Facebook group.

Howard University Law Students Open Letter On Policing

December 14, 2014 Staff, www.law.howard.edu Organize! Criminal Justice and Prisons, killed by police, Police abuse, Racism, Student Activism

As Howard University School of Law students, we stand on the shoulders of change agents like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston. In our halls each day, we are reminded of their extraordinary impact on our country and their desire to make it clear that all lives matter and should be treated equally. In our classes, we learn about the various standards of proof involved in courtroom proceedings. We often hear about the magnitude of the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of proof that is placed on the state during criminal trials. We also learn about the standard of proof for grand juries: probable cause to believe a crime has been committed by a criminal suspect. This is a very low bar. It means that in order to indict a criminal suspect, the grand jury has to find that there was probable cause for ANY of the charges suggested; charges ranging from firstdegree murder to involuntary manslaughter. Probable cause does not require the grand jury to find that the suspect is clearly guilty or even that the suspect more than likely committed the crime. Notwithstanding, on November 24, 2014, the grand jury in Ferguson found that there was no probable cause to believe that Officer Wilson committed a crime when he shot and killed Mike Brown. On December 3, 2014, the grand jury in Staten Island found that there was no probable cause to believe Officer Pantaleo committed a crime when he placed Eric Garner in a chokehold, which contributed to his death. What happens now? How is faith restored in the criminal justice system for people of color?

Anarchist Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Sparks Riots In Athens

December 4, 2014 Parthena Xanthopoulou-Dimitriadou, www.roarmag.org Resist! Greece, Hunger Strike, Protests, Riots, Student Activism

Yesterday, demonstrations in solidarity with the Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos — who has been on hunger strike for 24 days to demand his right to educational furlough — were called in big cities and islands across Greece. In Athens, more than 10.000 people marched, proving that no one is to be left alone in front of the vengeful fury of the state. Once again, however, it was confirmed that, when the twisted justifications of the repressive state don’t work, the batons of the police are ready to do the job. The demonstration started at Monastiraki and arrived at Syntagma Square, where Syrian refugees have been camping out for 15 days to demand state recognition of their political refugee status. Until its end, the march was followed by heavy police forces.

Thousands Take Part in National Die-Ins For Michael Brown

December 3, 2014 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Ferguson, police brutality, Police the Police, Student Activism

At 1:01 PM on Monday afternoon thousands of individuals—a large portion of whom are college and high school students—stopped what they were doing. In acts of remembranceof slain black teenager Michael Brown, people across the country staged die-ins, demonstrations, and fell quiet for four and a half minutes—a protest which they say is "only the beginning." In New York City, an estimated 400 protesters stood in Union Square and beat their chests with their hands, mimicking Michael Brown's heart beating. More than 500 Harvard University and local high school students gathered in Harvard Square where students laid in the streets in a "die-in" in solidarity with Brown and other innocent people killed by police.

11 Protesters Released After International Outcry

December 1, 2014 Tracy Wilkinson, www.latimes.com Educate! Mexico, Political Prisoner, Student Activism

Eleven people arrested in recent anti-government demonstrations and sent to maximum-security prisons have been released without charges after their detention created an international uproar. A 12th person arrested separately in connection with the same case was also freed, and publicly denounced what he described as beatings and threats by state security services. Mostly peaceful marches against the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto have become a mainstay since the Sept. 26 kidnapping and likely massacre of 43 college students in Iguala in the state of Guerrero. The students were attacked by local police working with a drug cartel in cahoots with the mayor of Iguala and his wife, the government says.

Activists Continue 2nd Day Of Wheeler Hall Occupation

November 22, 2014 Alexander Barreira And Heyun Jeong, www.dailycal.org Resist! Education, Protest, Student Activism

Fighting against tuition increases and, at times, their own exhaustion, students and community activists continued to occupy Wheeler Hall and protest throughout campus Thursday. The occupation began Wednesday evening after a vote by the UC Board of Regents to move forward with a proposed tuition hike policy, which was officially approved Thursday morning. UC Berkeley students voted to occupy the building as well as conduct a walkout Monday. As of 11 p.m. Thursday, more than 300 individuals remained in the building. The lobby of Wheeler Hall remained crowded with about 50 to more than 100 people at different times throughout the day.

Students: You Are Not A Loan

November 20, 2014 Astra Taylor, www.theguardian.com Organize! Finance and the Economy, Student Activism, Student Debt

The American higher education system is broken: between predatory student lenders, rapacious for-profit colleges, skyrocketing tuition rates and the number of people taking on a lifetime’s worth of debt before they can legally drink, the current system is not sustainable. Instead of providing a ladder to a better life, higher education too often reinforces class- and race-based disparities. And our government is not doing anything to provide relief to students even in the most egregious cases. What we really need is a revolution. Individually, debt can be overwhelming and isolating. Together, given the fact Americans collectively owe over $1.2tn in student loans, we may be able to overwhelm and transform the system. It’s time to believe in power in numbers: You are not a loan.

This Isn’t The Mass Grave You’ve Been Looking For

November 20, 2014 Greg Grandin, www.thenation.com Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Student Activism

They have found many mass graves. Just not the mass grave they have been looking for. The forty-three student activists were disappeared on September 26, after being attacked by police in the town of Iguala, in the Mexican state of Guerrero. A week later, I set up an alert for “fosa clandestina”—Spanish for clandestine grave—on Google News. Here’s what has come back: On October 4, the state prosecutor of Guerrero announced that twenty-eight bodies were found in five clandestine mass graves. None of them were the missing forty-three. On October 9, three more graves. None of them contained the missing forty-three. The use of the passive tense on the part of government officials and in news reports is endemic. Graves were discovered. Massacres were committed.

500 Students Occupy Building At UC Davis Over Tuition Increases

November 19, 2014 Mike Luery, www.kcra.com Resist! College, Student Activism, Student Debt, Student protest

More than 500 students mobilized Tuesday and took over the UC Davis administration building for about an hour to protest a proposed tuition hike by the UC Board of Regents. The students chanted, marched and banged drums in Mrak Hall in what they said was a message to the UC Board of Regents. "Tell them shame,” said UC Davis junior Mariah Watson. "Tell them that if you won't represent us we'll get rid of you. Raise tuition and we'll raise hell." Students said they are frustrated over the proposed tuition hike that would raise their costs by more than $3,300 over the next five years. That increase would make it tough for students like Lorena Castillo, a UC Davis junior, to stay in school. "Taking out all of these loans my parents cannot help me one bit, so they already told me if it gets any more expensive you might not be able to take out anything else and you might not be able to go to school," Castillo said.

Riot Police Attack Student Protesters In Athens

November 15, 2014 Markos Vogiatzoglou, www.roarmag.org Resist! Greece, Student Activism

It’s been some time since we last heard from the Greek movement. But, thanks to the Greek government and its riot police, today became a day of large student demonstrations, clashes with the cops, injuries and rising tension. First, let’s see what happened. Early in the morning, the Athens Law School students arrived at their university in order to carry out their assembly decision, which included a symbolic occupation of their university until the 17th of November — commemoration day of the 1973 student revolt against the military dictatorship. The problem was that the school was already occupied by the riot police. The Athenian Universities’ rectors had decided to apply a peculiar “lock out” of the students and employees, supposedly for “security reasons”. The government gave a helping hand by sending in hundreds of cops, in riot gear, to carry out the decision. The cops assaulted the students, seriously injuring a couple of them and dispersing the rest.

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources