Student Activism

Create Strike Debt In Your Community, Broaden The Revolt

November 19, 2013 Staff, www.strikedebt.org Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing, Occupy, Student Activism

One of the great evolutions of the Occupy Movement is Strike Debt and the "You are not a loan" movement. Strike Debt Urges You To Take Action Fighting debt and our exploitative economic system will require both individual and collective action. Here are some immediate steps you can take to shift the balance of power, apply pressure to creditors, and help the debt movement keep rolling. They urge you to consider: (1) Fight back against debt buyers, (2) Hold a debt assembly, (3) Save houses and whole communities using Eminent Domain, and (4) Work together against student debt. More will be coming. Check this page often. We’ll be updating it regularly with new projects.

Chile’s Ex-Student Leaders March Their Way To Congressional Victory

November 18, 2013 Staff, www.Reuters.com Resist! Chile, Democracy, Student Activism, Youth

Camila Vallejo, who helped spearhead Chile's student uprising in 2011, leapt from the street protest to the ranks of Congress alongside three other former university leaders on Sunday, underscoring a generational shift in local politics. The 25-year-old communist shot to international fame as one of the most recognizable faces of a student movement seeking free and improved education in a nation fettered by the worst income distribution among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's 34 member states. The massive student protests of 2011 rocked incumbent President Sebastian Pinera's government and helped shape the 2013 electoral campaign, with Bachelet running on a platform to implement a tax reform to finance an education overhaul. Independent candidates Giorgio Jackson and Gabriel Boric and fellow communist Karol Cariola, former comrade-in-arms in the student movement, also gained seats in Chile's lower house on Sunday.

The Post-Employment Economy Should Get Students Angry

November 17, 2013 Sarah Kendzior, www.aljazeera.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth

What must be made clear is that this is not a crisis of individual choices. It is a systemic failure - within higher education and beyond. It is a crisis of managed expectations - expectations of what kind of job is "normal", what kind of treatment is to be tolerated, and what level of sacrifice is reasonable. When survival is touted as an aspiration, sacrifice becomes a virtue. But a hero is not a person who suffers. A suffering person is a person who suffers. If you suffer in the proper way - silently, or with proclaimed fealty to institutions - then you are a hard worker "paying your dues". If you suffer in a way that shows your pain, that breaks your silence, then you are a complainer - and you are said to deserve your fate. But no worker deserves to suffer. To compound the suffering of material deprivation with rationalisations for its warrant is not only cruel to the individual, but gives exploiters moral license to prey. Individuals internalise the economy’s failure, as a media chorus excoriates them over what they should have done differently. They jump to meet shifting goalposts; they express gratitude for their own mistreatment: their unpaid labour, their debt-backed devotion, their investment in a future that never arrives.

Another Reason For Students To Organize & Mobilize

November 17, 2013 Todd Wallack, www.bostonglobe.com Educate! Education, Student Activism, Youth

When Brandeis University president Jehuda Reinharz stepped down three years ago, he moved back into his old faculty office. But unlike most history professors, Reinharz does not teach any classes, supervise graduate students, or attend departmental meetings. He did not bother posing for the department photo. The chairwoman for Near Eastern and Judaic Studies said she did not even know whether he was officially a member of her department. Yet Reinharz remains one of the highest paid people on campus. He received more than $600,000 in salary and benefits in 2011, second only to the new Brandeis president, according to the school’s most recent public tax returns. And that’s on top of the $800,000 Reinharz earned in his new job as president of the Mandel Foundation, a longtime Brandeis benefactor. “There is puzzlement from faculty about why he gets paid at all” by Brandeis, said Gordon Fellman, a sociology professor at Brandeis. “His term as president ended.”

Pack The Court For Two Suspended CUNY Student Leaders

November 17, 2013 Buy Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Student Activism, Youth

There is now a new and unprecedented escalation in repression against the CUNY movement and the campaign to save the Morales / Shakur Center at the City College of New York (CCNY). Earlier this week, Tafadar “Taffy” Sourov and Khalil Vasquez, two student leaders suspended without a hearing by CCNY, were ordered by the New York State Police and the New York County District Attorney’s office to present themselves downtown to be arrested. They were told that criminal charges would be filed against them, as a result of three-week-old allegations against them from the October 24 demonstration at CCNY to save the Morales / Shakur Center. PACK THE COURT IN SUPPORT OF THE (2) SUSPENDED CUNY COLLEGE STUDENT LEADERS FACING EXPULSION and/or PRISON FOR SUPPORTING & DEFENDING THE GUILLERMO MORALES-ASSATA SHAKUR COMMUNITY & STUDENT CENTER @ HARLEM'S CCNY! STAND WITH TAFFY & KHALIL AT THEIR FIRST COURT DATE Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 Time: 9:30 AM Place: Manhattan Criminal Court, 100 Centre Street, Arraignment Part AR1 or AR2 Please Wear Something Visible In Warrior RED & arrive at 9 AM SHARP to go through the metal detectors.

Students Try to Occupy Bulgarian Parliament Building

November 17, 2013 Max Rivlin-Nadler and David M. Herszenhorn, www.nytimes.com Resist! Bulgaria, Student Activism, Youth

Student protesters tried but failed to occupy the Bulgarian Parliament building here on Friday, then marched through the city center and broke through four police cordons in the latest of a series of angry demonstrations against the center-left government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski. There were no reports of serious violence, and the police made only scattered arrests before the student demonstrators retreated to the main building of Sofia University, which they have occupied since Oct. 23, bringing classes to a halt. Officials were bracing for the possibility of additional unrest at rallies by rival political parties this weekend. Bulgaria has been convulsed by near constant protests since mid-June, when citizens took to the streets in outrage over the appointment of Delyan Peevski, a politically connected media magnate, as the head of the State Agency for National Security. Although Mr. Peevski resigned, some protesters said his selection proved that shadowy business interests controlled the government.

Video: Police Recruiting Activist To Spy On Students & Political Groups

November 16, 2013 Rob Evans and Mustafa Khalili, www.theguardian.com Educate! Police abuse, Student Activism, Video, Youth

The police recruitment tactics described below are not unique to the UK, but would also not be unusual in the United States or many parts of the world. A police officer has been covertly filmed attempting to recruit an activist to spy on Cambridge university students and other campaigners. The activist secretly recorded this meeting with a police officer who had asked him to become an informant. Here, the officer names some of the proposed targets of the surveillance: students, environmentalists, anti-fascists and UK Uncut campaigners against tax avoidance by big business. We are not revealing the identities of the police officer and activist. A Cambridgeshire police spokesperson said: 'Officers use covert tactics to gather intelligence, in accordance with the law, to assist in the prevention and detection of criminal activity'

Santa Cruz Students Announce Solidarity Strike With Workers

November 16, 2013 Staff, www.swpucsc.tumblr.com Resist! Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth

Today we announce that our union, UAW Local 2865—the union representing 12,000 TA’s, tutors, and readers across the UC—will be joining CNA and UC’s Skilled Craft’s Unit in a one-day sympathy strike with AFSCME 3299, the union representing service workers, janitors and shuttle drivers. A sympathy strike is about conveying a powerful message of strength and solidarity for our Union brothers and sisters. A strike is most effective if we all participate and honor the strike. This means we are hoping TA’s, tutors, and readers refrain from all work duties that day. That includes: teaching sections; holding office hours; grading papers; and in general, anything related to your duties as an academic worker. Instead, graduate students workers should join AFSCME, CNA, the Skilled Crafts Unit and hundreds of undergraduates on the picket lines throughout the day. And we should encourage our students, friends, cohorts, department administrators, family, neighbors, and faculty to join us.

Chile Likely To Move More Radically Progressive

November 13, 2013 Editorial, www.theguardian.com Educate! Chile, Finance and the Economy, Student Activism, Youth

Michelle Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which is more radical and progressive than that of her first There is no contest between the two leading candidates, Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei, in Chile's presidential election on Sunday. Ms Bachelet will be re-elected president – the only question being whether she achieves victory in one round or two. The two women do have, however, a shared history . As little girls they were neighbours in the same barracks, when their fathers, both generals in the air force, were friends. But there was always a political divide between the two families, and what bonds there were, were ripped apart by Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup. Mr Matthei was promoted to run the air force, and remains to this day an unrepentant former member of the military junta. And Ms Bachelet's father was tortured, and died in detention of a stroke. Ms Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which if anything is more radical and progressive than that of her first term. Wealth is still concentrated in the hands of a few affluent families, and inequality, particularly in higher education, is a major issue. Pushed by students who have turned out weekly in their thousands in demonstrations which have captured public sympathy, Ms Bachelet is offering free higher education over the next six years.

Bulgarian Universities in Chaos; Students Occupy 15 Campuses

November 9, 2013 Callum Mason, www.independent.co.uk/ Resist! Student Activism, Youth

Thousands of students in Bulgaria have brought universities to a standstill over the past two weeks, to demand the resignation of the country’s government, which they claim is corrupt. Students at 15 universities across the country are now occupying buildings and preventing teaching in protest at the centre-left coalition. The sudden rash of occupations have also sparked violent demonstrations, particularly in the capital, Sofia, from those supporting the protest, and from counter-campaigners. The first of the protests began when students at the elite Sofia University occupied Lecture Hall 272, the largest teaching room in the St. Kliment Ohridski building on 23 October. They have been blockading the building since then, bringing classes to a halt, in what they are calling an “indefinite” occupation. The original occupation quickly struck a nerve, and spiralled into universities across Bulgaria, in major cities including Plovdiv, Varna, Rousse and Bourgas.

Debt Strike Discussion: You Are Not A Loan

November 8, 2013 Staff, bhqfu.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Student Activism

On Sunday, November 10, Andrew Ross joins the BHQFU lecture series to hold a conversation on debt resistance, the Occupy Student Debt campaign, and related efforts in in the struggle against the human and environmental costs of economic growth. Bio: Andrew Ross (born 1956) is a professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A writer for The New York Times, Artforum, The Nation, Newsweek and The Village Voice, he is also the author and/or editor of numerous books. Much of his writing focuses on labor, the urban environment, and the organization of work, from the Western world of business and high-technology to conditions of offshore labor in the Global South. Making use of social theory as well as ethnography, his writing questions the human and environmental cost of economic growth, has an activist, alternative globalization approach, and emphasizes principles of sustainability. Outside his academic discipline he is notable for having jointly won in 1996 an Ig Noble Prize for Literature for his part in the Sokal affair.

Mobilization To Defend Student Leaders From Persecution

November 5, 2013 Staff, www.liberatecunyfront.com Resist! Education, Student Activism, Youth

On Monday October 28th as they were going to class, two student leaders at the City College of New York were approached by CUNY Public Safety officials and told that they would be suspended from campus for inciting a riot that never occurred. This comes after two weeks of successive protests following the closure of the Morales Shakur Community Center at City College. The Community Center provided books and fresh food at low prices to students and community members in the Harlem area, and was a center for political activity for two decades. Khalil Vasquez and Tafadar Sourov, both from the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee, were visible leaders of the protests and are the ones being targeted by the administration for suspension and possible expulsion. The Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee is calling for a massive mobilization on Friday November 8th at 9am, right before the hearing where Khalil and Tafadar will be sentenced. They believe that this marks an intensification in what they call the militarization of CUNY, and are mobilizing the community and student body to defend their university and its leaders.

What Do Occupy Protestors Think of Pepper Spray Cop Being Awarded $38,000?

October 31, 2013 Jak Hutchcraft, www.vice.com Educate! Occupy, Student Activism

There are three things I can tell you about it. One—he’s legally entitled to it; it’s an insurance payment. Two—the fact that he’s getting it is a tremendous injustice. Three—not only did he get the payout of $38,000, but after committing those horrendous acts that were obviously over the line, he got eight months of paid administrative leave while they investigated it, and he got to keep his retirement and other benefits. Giving these payouts to police officers is a message that says, "No matter what you do or whose rights you trample, you're part of a big family of police and we take care of our own."

City College Protest Leaders Suspended As Demonstrations Continue

October 31, 2013 Jeff Mays, www.dnainfo.com Resist! Education, Student Activism

Two City College students who led protests against the closure of a student-run community center have been suspended indefinitely after officials accused them of trying to incite a riot. Khalil Vasquez, 22, a senior and Tafadar Sourov, 19, a sophomore, say they were intercepted by campus police and an NYPD officer as they attempted to attend class Monday morning and told they were no longer allowed on campus following last week's protests over the closure of the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Student and Community Center on the third floor of the North Academic Center at 138th Street and Convent Avenue. "What this is really about is the college trying to squash political dissent," said Vasquez who was due to graduate in the spring. Sourov agreed. "This is them targeting the leaders and trying to kill the drive to save the Morales/Shakur Center," he said, adding that they plan to fight the administrative charges. The Morales/Shakur Center was given to students following the 1989 protests over tuition hikes. It is named for Morales, a Puerto Rican separatist who lost his fingers and an eye when a bomb he was making exploded, and Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army formerly known as Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted in the 1973 shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper.

Bulgarian Students Join Anti-Government Protests, Occupy University Buildings

October 29, 2013 Thomas Seymat, www.euronews.com Resist! Bulgaria, Student Activism

In recent days, Bulgaria’s capital Sofia has witnessed a series of student protests and the occupation of university buildings that have injected new life into a persistent anti-government movement that is now into its 138th day. The latest developments started when, on Wednesday October 23, students occupied “Lecture Hall 272”, the largest teaching room in Sofia University’s St. Kliment Ohridski building. Among their objectives is to force the resignation of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski’s government and see new general elections as soon as possible.

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