Student Protests

Students, Supporters Show Out In Force Monday For Dining Workers

October 27, 2016 Brandon J. Dixon, Hannah Natanson, and Leah S. Yared, www.thecrimson.com Resist! Harvard, Protests, Student Protests, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Brandon J. Dixon, Hannah Natanson, and Leah S. Yared for The Harvard Crimson - Monday marked a showing of force in support for Harvard’s dining services workers as more than a hundred students and supporters flooded the lobby where negotiations between the University and HUDS’s union took place. After roughly 500 students walked out of classes and rallied in Harvard Yard, more than 100 students and supporters of Harvard’s picketing dining services workers sat in the lobby of 124 Mt. Auburn St., singing, and chanting—and, eventually, doing homework—for nearly seven hours.

Protesting Students Clash With Police In South Africa

October 6, 2016 Staff, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Education, Protests, South Africa, Student Protests

By Staff of Al Jazeera - South African police have used tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades against students protesting for free education in Johannesburg. Two students were arrested and another and one staff member were injured in the violence on Tuesday at the University of the Witwatersrand, or Wits. Similar unrest has occurred since last month at other financially struggling South African universities, forcing a number, including Wits, to close.

Honduran Police Clash With Students At Anti-Privatization Protest

September 12, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Honduras, Police, Privatization, Protests, Student Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur - Police officers are trying to clear an occupation by university students, after protesters took over part of Honduras' public university. Police forces clashed with a group of students who took the administrative building of the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Honduras Thursday in the capital of Tegucigalpa, as part of protests against privatization of education, teleSUR correspondent Gerardo Torres reported.

UT Students Start School Year With Anti-Gun Protest

August 27, 2016 Jon Herskovitz, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Guns, Higher Education, Student Protests

By Jon Herskovitz for Reuters - To protest a new state law that makes the carrying of concealed handguns legal in college classrooms, students at the University of Texas on Wednesday openly displayed sex toys, an act considered illegal under local indecency laws. “We are fighting absurdity with absurdity,” said Jessica Jin, leader of the protest called “Cocks Not Glocks: Campus (Dildo) Carry,” where hundreds of sex toys were given away at the rally on Wednesday that coincided with a return to classes at university’s flagship campus.

Six Students Arrested At University Of Minnesota Regents Meeting

June 11, 2016 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja Resist! Higher Education, Student Protests, Tuition

By Staff of Unicorn Riot - At a hot summer meeting on a mostly deserted campus, the “Differences Organized Coalition” of fifteen groups protested University of Minnesota Board of Regents’ proposed tuition hikes, as well as decreasing access for marginalized communities, numerous sports and research scandals, Dinkytown gentrification, and investments with abusive corporations. The “Do! Coalition” has several primary demands: to treat education like a public good; immediate free tuition for American Indian students; President Kaler’s immediate resignation...

Student Group In Japan That’s Made It Cool To Protest

June 6, 2016 Naomi Gingold, www.pri.org Resist! Japan, Student Activism, Student Protests

By Naomi Gingold for PRI - When Aki Okuda was 14 years old, he ran away from home. But this is not one of those kid-runs-away-and-is-brought-back-and-everything-goes-on stories. Okuda ran away and stayed away. “I wanted to go to the farthest place possible from Fukuoka,” he says. “I ended up on Yaeyama islands, the southernmost islands in Japan.”

Boston To Protestings Students: You’re Not Worth It

June 2, 2016 Jennifer C. Berkshire, www.progressive.org Resist! Boston, Education, Student Protests

By Jennifer C. Berkshire for The Progressive - The student protest outside of Boston City Hall was winding down. Of the 1,000 students who’d walked out of their schools for the second time this spring, about 100 were left, waiting to get inside in hopes of testifying before a City Council committee against proposed school budget cuts. First, though, the students had to pass through a metal detector, a process as inefficient as an airport TSA line. “This is what democracy looks like,” they chanted, a protest staple that for once felt almost true. “The whole world is watching,” they shouted, amplified by the hulking architecture of City Hall.

‘Neutral Is Not Acceptable’:Protests For Colleges To Go Fossil Free

April 28, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Resist! Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Protests

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - A series of sit-ins and protests urging universities to divest their endowments from fossil fuels gained new strength this week, as students at the University of Montana, Vassar College, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched their own actions to combat climate change. Two nights in a row, on Monday and Tuesday multiple students at Northern Arizona University (NAU) were arrested for taking part in a nonviolent action demanding their school divest from oil and gas companies.

Colleges Face Student Protests Over Fossil Fuel Investments

April 26, 2016 Shahien Nasiripour, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Protests

By Shahien Nasiripour for The Huffington Post - Students at nearly a dozen U.S. colleges have planned protests in recent weeks targeting their schools’ investments in the oil, gas and coal sectors, part of a coordinated push to stop colleges from funding companies that contribute to global warming. Nearly 700 students and their supporters have already staged sit-ins and held rallies at more than six campuses this month, including University of Denver, Columbia University, New York University and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Students Protest Potential Punishment Of Rape Victim

April 25, 2016 Daniel Hernandez, www.theguardian.com Resist! Higher Education, Rape, Student Protests

By Daniel Hernandez for The Guardian - Students rallied outside Brigham Young University on Wednesday to protest the school’s treatment of sexual assault victims, calling for revisions to the Mormon university’s “honor code”, religious bylaws through which rape victims can be punished for having consumed alcohol or had a member of the opposite sex in a bedroom. The protest follows outrage over the rape case of sophomore Madi Barney, 19, who reported to Provo, Utah, police that she was raped in her off-campus apartment during a date.

Columbia Divest For Climate Justice Protesters Plan Sit-In At Low Library

April 18, 2016 Catie Edmondson, Teo Armus, and Cauver Suresh, www.columbiaspectator.com Resist! Climate Change, Columbia University, Divestment, Student Protests

By Catie Edmondson, Teo Armus, and Cauver Suresh for Columbia Daily Spectator - Sixteen members of Columbia Divest for Climate Justice are conducting an indefinite sit-in inside Low Library to demand that the University divest from the fossil fuel industry. The group—which has been campaigning for this goal since its founding in fall 2012—may be in potential violation of the Rules of Conduct. While CDCJ had a meeting with Bollinger scheduled for Apr. 29, the group is demanding for Bollinger to meet with them immediately and issue a statement in support of divesting from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies.

UMass Officials Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Amid Student Protests

April 18, 2016 Amanda Hoover, www.boston.com Resist! Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Student Protests

By Amanda Hoover for Boston - University of Massachusetts officials announced Tuesday that they would back a policy for the university system to divest from fossil fuel companies after students occupied a campus administrative building. Fifteen protesters were later arrested after refusing to vacate the scene. “Throughout my career, I have stood for environmental progress and reducing the carbon footprint,” UMass President Marty Meehan said in a statement.

French Police Assault Student Protests Against Labour Reform

April 6, 2016 Alex Lantier and Senthooran Ravee, www.wsws.org Resist! France, Labor, Student Protests

By Alex Lantier and Senthooran Ravee for WSWS - After more than a million workers and youth marched Thursday in defiance of the state of emergency to protest Socialist Party (PS) labour minister Myriam El Khomri’s law, security forces yesterday violently attacked continuing demonstrations against the reactionary labour law reform. Explosive anger is developing among broad sections of workers and youth to the El Khomri Law. It would increase the working day by up to two hours, undermine job security for young workers, and allow the trade unions and businesses to negotiate deals violating France’s Labour Code.

Duke University Wants To Arrest 9 Students To Cover Up A Hit-And-Run

April 5, 2016 Sumaia Masoom, www.muslimgirl.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Protests

By Sumaia Masoom for Muslim Girl - Duke University administrators welcomed members of the Class of 2019 to campus in August. One hit-and-run, one cover-up, and a slew of other racial slurs and instances of discrimination later, they’re now surrounding a campus building with police and threatening to arrest some of these same students. A total of 9 students – senior Amy Wang, juniors Mina Ezikpe, Lara Haft, and Carolyn Yao, sophomores Cindy Li, Ashlyn Nuckols, Jazmynne Williams, and Dipro Bhowmik, and freshman Sydney Roberts – launched a sit-in on Friday afternoon calling for the resignation of multiple Duke administrators...

#BlackLivesMatter Drastically Impacted College Admins And Campus Policy

March 18, 2016 JE Reich, www.jezebel.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Student Activism, Student Protests

By JE Reich for Jezebel - The youths! Everyone loves to complain about the youths. But a study that polled the presidents of hundreds of higher educational institutes have more or less proved that the last gasp of Millennials and the first wave on Gen Z-ers are organizing for social causes—and in turn, they’re changing the very make-up of their campuses. But it’s not only students who are doing this—it’s the administrators, too. The study opened with three simple words that have embodied the dynamism of the socio-political activist movement over the past few years: “Black Lives Matter”

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