Student Activism

Five Ways Student Debt Resistance Is Taking Off

October 28, 2013 James Cersonsky, www.alternet.org Educate! Student Activism

In March 2012, 36 protesters were arrested for blocking the street outside Sallie Mae’s offices. A year later, students introduced a shareholder resolution calling for the company to disclose its executive bonus structure, its lobbying practices, and its connections with ALEC. Now, more than a month after leaving ALEC, the company still languishes under federal investigation for charging higher interest rates and fees to students of color, evidence that it failed to reduce interest rates for military service-members, and calls for the Department of Education to cut its contract.

Students Stand With Low Wage Workers

October 26, 2013 Staff, By, www.usas.org Resist! Education, Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth

We write to you on behalf of students from across the University of California who share a deep concern about the UC’s decision to implement drastic cuts on 8,000 of our lowest paid campus workers, as well as more than 12,000 UC patient care workers. We represent a wide variety of student organizations that benefit every day from the hard work of our custodians, gardeners, food service workers, facilities maintenance staff, patient care workers and teaching assistants. We know that this University would not exist without our campus workers, and are disappointed with the UC for unilaterally imposing cuts that hurt the lives and families of vital members of our community. The recent cuts amount to a 1.5% decrease in take home pay for workers making an average of $35,000 per year, and up to $124,000 in higher health costs for each worker in their lifetime. Even before these latest cuts, 99% of Service Workers were income eligible for some form of public assistance.

Student Artists, Activists Aim for Fossil-Free Investment At Washington University

September 22, 2013 James Anderson, www.truth-out.org Resist! Environment, Student Activism

"The exhibit features 13 images that tell the stories of communities across the globe impacted by climate change. It shows the leaking coal ash landfill in Labadie, Missouri, and the ravages of tar sands extraction in Northern Alberta, Canada. It aesthetically connects US wildfires to anthropogenic climate effects, and it tells the story of Shell oil extraction in the Niger Delta. The artwork also shows how the low-lying Maldives Island is threatened by rising sea levels - an issue taken up by the country's ex-President Mohamed Nasheed, a committed climate activist. "A major theme throughout each piece is the disproportionate effects of climate change felt by communities who use little fossil fuels themselves and do not profit from the industry," student activists wrote. Climate justice activists have long endeavored to point out how the greatest ecological externalities from natural resource depletion for capital accumulation are felt by the poor and most vulnerable."

Student Loan Interest Rates Double – American Youth Still Fucked

July 8, 2013 Roshan Bliss www.occupy.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Student Activism

Congressional lawmakers threw young Americans under the bus again this week when they failed to pass a bill that would prevent the interest rate on a key group of student loans from automatically doubling on July 1st. The inaction on behalf of lawmakers means that, as of Monday, students who receive new subsidized Stafford loans to help pay for college this Fall will be racking up interest at a new 6.8% rate rather than the previous 3.4% rate. It is estimated that the hike will increase the cost of college by $1000 per year, per loan, putting a college degree that much further out of reach for over 7 million US students who are affected by the rate hike.

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