Student Activism

UK Students Revolt For Free Education

November 15, 2014 Steve Rushton, www.occupy.com Resist! Education, Protests, Student Activism

Universities across Britain are moving towards outsourcing workers, cutting the range of courses and relying on PhD students to take on work they're not properly paid for. Courses where units are especially being dropped include history, music, languages and the study of religions. In parallel with the deterioration in quality of learning, Suber asserts the shift in education reinforces class privilege. “Many professions require a degree from a top university that are mainly full of kids with rich parents," he said. "In effect, these universities are less about knowledge, instead places where you get a piece of paper with the right university stamp to get a lucratively paid job.” Opposing this neoliberal trend, the Nov. 19 free education demonstration is expected to turn out thousands of protesters onto London’s streets, and nationwide.

Mexico: Protesters Take Airport For 3 Hours

November 11, 2014 Revolution News!, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Mexico, Student Activism

Hundreds of normalistas in Guerrero accompanied by teachers from CETEG marching towards the Acapulco airport were blocked by elements of the Federal Police. Students walked down the Boulevard de Las Naciones and sought to take the terminal to protest against the disappearance of 43 of their colleagues, when federal police blocked their way. Previously, students clashed with soldiers in front of “La Isla” commercial plaza located in the Zona Diamante area. Dozens of riot police state sector dispersed through the hotel zone, to ensure the safety of citizens. Acapulco “Zona Diamante” is a big tourist area of Acapulco consisting of modern hotels, luxury condos, and private villages. It is located about 15 minutes of Acapulco International Airport.

Door to Mexico President’s Ceremonial Palace Set On Fire

November 10, 2014 Elinor Complay, www.reuters.com Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Student Activism

(Reuters) - A group of protesters set fire to the wooden door of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's ceremonial palace in Mexico City's historic city center late on Saturday, denouncing the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers. The group, carrying torches, broke away from what had been a mostly peaceful protest demanding justice for the students, who were abducted six weeks ago and apparently murdered and incinerated by corrupt police in league with drug gang members. Police put out the flames and enforced fencing designed to keep the protesters away from the National Palace, which was built for Hernan Cortes after the Spanish conquest and now houses Mexico's finance ministry. Pena Nieto lives in a presidential residence across town, and was not in the palace at the time.

Students Use Civil Disobedience Over Revised Curriculum

November 8, 2014 Nicholas Garcia, www.co.chalkbeat.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Education, History, Student Activism

GOLDEN — Jefferson County students, upset over how their board of education redesigned a curriculum review committee, interrupted the school board’s proceedings tonight by reading aloud from their history books. About 10 students either read out of turn about historical figures, known for acts of civil disobedience, at a podium or from their seats. Another dozen students also recited the Pledge of Allegiance before making a mass exit. All students left peacefully. No arrests were made. As part of their demonstration, the students said they had four demands: a public apology from the school board’s conservative majority for referring to students as “union pawns;” a reversal of an earlier decision to amend content review policies; proof from the board that they listen and act on community input instead of what students called an “ideological” agenda; and more resources for classroom instruction.

We are Students NOT Customers – Global Week of Action

November 8, 2014 International Student Movement, www.facebook.com Resist! Consumerism, Student Activism

We are calling for a Global Week of Action to reclaim education. The International Student Movement (ISM) is a platform consisting of many individuals and groups from different parts of the world. A group of students associated with the ISM came together during a series of chat meetings and decided to call for a coordinated action worldwide. We will UNITE in solidarity, because no matter where we live, we face the same struggle against profit-driven interests and their hold on education. Budget cuts, outsourcing, school closures, climbing costs of living and tuition fees among other phenomena, are all linked to an increasing commercialization and privatization of education. Uniting globally is our answer to these obstacles - fighting for emancipatory education for all. Students across the globe are drowning in debt.

Tens Of Thousands Protest Over Missing Students

November 7, 2014 Associated Press, www.cbc.ca Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Student Activism

Tens of thousands of people marched down Mexico City's main boulevard Wednesday evening to protest the disappearance of 43 young people in the southern part of the country and demand the government find them. The largely young crowd carried Mexican flags with black mourning bands replacing the red and green stripes, counting off the numbers from one to 43. Protesters also chanted: "They took them away alive, and alive we want them back." In Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, groups of protesters angry about the government's inability to find the missing used hijacked trucks to block all three highways leading into the city for several hours. The missing youths were enrolled at a rural teachers college in Guerrero. They had been taken away by police after a confrontation in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26.

Ferguson Friday

November 7, 2014 Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Creative Resistance, Ferguson, police brutality, Racial Justice, Student Activism

From CreativeResistance.org - Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) at University of Pennsylvania is engaging in a series of creative actions, held weekly on Fridays. The group aims to create a more conscious and active community at U Penn and in Philadelphia. Police brutality is modern day lynching, state sanctioned murder. There are more Black men in prison today or under the watch of the criminal justice system than were enslaved in 1850. On October 24th, Gina Marie, Jamal Taylor and another student portrayed slavery in 1814, lynching in 1914, and mass incarceration/prison industrial complex in 2014 to represent persistent acts of genocide against Black people. They wore tape over their mouths, symbolic of the silencing of African ancestors and brethren behind bars. “We will not be silent about our oppression.”

Ayotzinapa Vive! A Month With Mexico’s Student Protesters

November 6, 2014 Manuel Rueda, www.fusion.net Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Student Activism

Twenty thousand people are currently missing in Mexico. But the disappearance of 43 students has struck a nerve in this country like few other crimes in its recent history. Protest happening almost on a daily basis are pressuring the government to find the missing students and end the kind of systematic corruption, and narco-infiltrations that many believe led to the tragedy. The missing students were attacked by municipal policemen from Iguala on Sept. 26, after they had commandeered three buses in a protest. Investigators believe that policemen turned the students over to a drug-trafficking gang that had ties to Iguala’s mayor.

Hedges & Wolin (5/8) – Can Capitalism & Democracy Coexist?

November 1, 2014 Chris Hedges and Sheldon Wolin, www.therealnews.com Educate! Capitalism, Democracy, Education, History, Student Activism, Wars and Militarism

It's really hard to recognize the moment when the faculty suddenly realized that they were a kind of corporate body that could stand up against the regents and take a stand when they thought there was interference with academic freedom, as there tended to be with the regents. They did kind of mess around with curriculum and tried to influence faculty hiring and so on. It was a very, very grim chapter. But the effect of it was to make you very, very much on guard against the rule of the graduated students and their influence in the university, because at Princeton you had, like at very few other places, lots of concentrated money, and the university were dependent on that to a large extent, so that the alumni had a kind of position that I didn't experience anywhere else in terms of their prominence. . .

The Ugly Update: Search For 43 Missing Mexican Students

November 1, 2014 Charlotte Alfred, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Student Activism

The students -- men in their late teens and early 20s -- were studying to become teachers in rural Mexico at a college with a history of radical leftist activism, the BBC reported. That Friday, they went out to demonstrate against hiring discrimination and solicit funds for an upcoming protest march. Witnesses have said that the students were in Iguala, a city in southern Mexico, when they came under fire from police. By the end of the night, six people were left dead. The body of one student was laterfound with his face skinned and eyes gouged out, the New Yorker reported, "the signature of a Mexican organized-crime assassination." Some of the students escaped Iguala, but 43 of them have not been seen since that night.

‘Carry That Weight’ National Day Of Action At Columbia And Beyond

October 31, 2014 Caroline Andrews and Emma Jones , www.columbiaspectator.com Resist! Protests, Rape, Sexual Assault, Student Activism

More than 150 Columbia students, faculty, and community members gathered on Low Steps on Wednesday holding mattresses, pillows, and signs to rally against the University’s handling of sexual assault on campus. Billed as a National Day of Action to “Help Carry the Weight,” the event was inspired by the senior art thesis project of Emma Sulkowicz, CC ’15. For her thesis, titled “Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight,” Sulkowicz will carry a mattress with her as long as her alleged rapist still attends Columbia, as a protest against the University’s systemic mishandling of sexual assault cases. The rally, organized by student activist groups No Red Tape Columbia and Carrying the Weight Together, also drew support from 28 other student organizations—representing the 28 students who have filed federal complaints against Columbia since April.

“Let Us Graduate!”: Garfield High School Walks Out On Budget Cuts

October 30, 2014 I Am An Educator, www.iamaneducator.com Resist! Education, Neo-Liberalism, Protest, Student Activism, Teachers

Seattle’s Garfield High School has once again moved into collective struggle!–and we may to find out today if one of us is to be displaced from the building or if the power of protest has kept us safe from the budget-cut ax for now. The Seattle School District announced on Friday, October 17, that Garfield High School would be forced to cut and transfer one teacher in a core subject area by Friday, October 24—or come up with $92,000. But on Thursday October 23, almost the entire building emptied in a mass walkout of students and educators against the budget cuts and has so far convinced the district to delay the cut. The morning of the walkout, one of my colleagues was in the middle of reading the list of grievances that the rebellious colonists proclaimed against the British in the Declaration of Independence. As he told it, the students didn’t yet grasp the world-historic nature of the defiant document and were slouching in their seats, somewhat uninterested.

Ayotzinapa: They Were The Best And The Brightest

October 18, 2014 The Mex Files, www.mexfiles.net Educate! Education, Mexico, Student Activism

I honestly don’t know what to say about the disappearance of the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Normal School. Sin Embargo has an overview of the situation as of this morning, focusing on the investigation and the political aspects of the situation. The foreign media, as expected, has seen this as somehow related to the narcotics export trade (which, of course, would not exist without the huge buyer’s market in the United States). That the alleged head of the alleged gang that allegedly kidnapped the students allegedly committed suicide and that PAN is now demanding the PRD state government resign, while the Peña Nieto administration worries about the economic fallout from reportage on this, raise the kinds of questions that the historian in me wonders whether they even need to be asked at this time, or if they can only be addressed when there is more information.

Mexico Universities Call Strike In Solidarity With Missing Students

October 17, 2014 Renee Lewis & Débora Poo Soto, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Mexico, Protests, Strike, Student Activism

Students from major Mexico City universities have called a two-day strike and were set to hold a rally Wednesday at the national attorney general’s office to call for the safe return of dozens of rural students who disappeared after clashes with police in Guerrero state last month, leading to public outrage. "We are on strike for 48 hours in support of the disappeared students in Guerrero," Silvia Caballero, a 21-year-old student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), told Al Jazeera. Survivors of the Sept. 26 violence joined Mexico City protesters in informal campus activities and rallies demanding justice for their missing classmates. Several other universities joined the UNAM strike on Tuesday and Wednesday. Family members of the missing students were to attend the protest at the attorney general's office in the capital, organizers said.

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