Student Protests

Puerto Rico Students Shut Down University Over Austerity Cuts

March 18, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Austerity, Education, Higher Education, Puerto Rico, Student Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur - The students are calling for people all over the country to join the protest against "unpayable debt" and austerity. Thousands of college students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) approved a three-day, full-campus shutdown Tuesday to protest recent austerity measures, which they say endanger the higher education system. The students held a general student assembly, after which they marched through the university and closed all entrances to the campus.

How Group Of Boston Teenagers Organized Massive District-Wide Protest

March 12, 2016 Allison Pohle, www.boston.com Organize! Boston, Education, Protests, Student Protests, Youth Activism

By Allison Pohle for Boston Globe - Hours before more than 3,500 of their peers would march out of their classrooms toward Boston Common, a small group of high schoolers was glued to a group chat on their phones. It was 3 a.m., and they needed to make sure everything was ready for the district-wide protest they’d spent the past week organizing. Were the posters finished? Yes. Was the meeting place finalized? Yes. Did they all promise that, no matter what, they would leave their classrooms at 11:30 a.m.?

Thousands Of Students Walked Out To Save Schools

March 8, 2016 Tom Cahill, www.usuncut.com Resist! Boston, Education, Student Protests

By Tom Cahill for US Uncut - Thousands of Boston high school students have descended onto the Boston Common and the Massachusetts State House in an unprecedented citywide walkout. Students are demanding the city rescind a controversial property tax break to General Electric and cease all budget cuts.

MIT Climate Sit-In Ends As University Agrees To Work With Students

March 4, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, College Activism, Higher Education, MIT, Student Protests

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - Four months of student protests demanding fossil fuel divestment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended on Thursday, when school administrators and members of the student group Fossil Free MITannounced a compromise. The agreement gives students a role in crafting and tracking the university's climate policy, but the university did not budge on its refusal to partially divest MIT's $13.5 billion endowment of its holdings in fossil fuel companies, which was a major goal of many of the protesters.

Historic Number Of College Freshmen Expect To Protest This Year

February 13, 2016 Susan Svrluga, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Activism, Student Protests

By Susan Svrluga for The Washington Post - This past year, colleges across the country, from Yale to Towson to Claremont McKenna, were rocked by protests. Students upset over racial issues took over the president’s office at Princeton, demanded the resignation of Ithaca College’s president, and forced out the chancellor and president of the entire University of Missouri system. And this spring may be even more intense: Researchers at UCLA are predicting a continued rise in campus demonstrations based on the results of their annual freshman survey...

UC Irvine Black Student Union Demands End To Campus Police

January 30, 2016 Matt Coker, www.ocweekly.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), California, Police, Police Abolition, Student Protests, University of California

By Matt Coker for OC Weekly - According to an online petition, the Black Student Union at UC Irvine is demanding the abolition of the campus police department, calling contemporary police forces “modern incarnations of the antebellum plantation and slave patrols." The demand made via Change.org to UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman and the administrations of UCI and the University of California states, “The problem is that policing as an institution is unethical; it accompanies anti-Black violence.” There were 240 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon toward a goal of only 500.

Ousted Mizzou President Blames #BLM & Football Team

January 30, 2016 Jordan Sargent, www.gawker.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Student Protests, University of Missouri

By Jordan Sargent for Gawker - Ten days ago, Tim Wolfe—the ex-University of Missouri System president who famously stepped down from his position last November after a black student’s hunger strike made the state’s flagship campus in Columbia the focus of a national discussion regarding the treatment of minority college students—sent an email to confidants that he labeled “CONFIDENTIAL.” In the message, which was first reported by local papers in Missouri and stretches five pages, Wolfe presents a bullet point list of people who he believes made it impossible for him to keep his job

150 London Students Launch Rent Strike Demanding Lower Housing Costs

January 29, 2016 Charlotte Dingle, www.occupy.com Resist! Rent Strike, Strike, Student Protests, United Kingdom (UK)

By Charlotte Dingle for Occupy - Students in Britain have a great deal to be angry about these days. In 2009, the U.K. government made the shock decision to raise tuition fees from £1,000 to £3,000 ($1,400 to $4,300), after the Liberal Democrats reneged on their promise to scrap them entirely and fell into convenient agreement with their Conservative coalition bedfellows. Then, last year, Chancellor George Osborne announced that maintenance grants for the country's poorest students would be scrapped by September of 2016.

Minneapolis HS Students Walk Out To Protest ICE & Deportations

January 22, 2016 Brad Sigal, www.fightbacknews.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Student Protests

By Brad Sigal for Fight Back! News - Minneapolis, MN - Students from at least 12 Minneapolis and suburban high schools walked out of school, Jan. 20. at noon to protest the current wave of immigration raids and deportations happening around the country. After walking out, the students converged at Martin Luther King Park in south Minneapolis for food and an open mic where students spoke about their experience with family members and friends being deported. Students then left the park and marched down major Minneapolis streets including Nicollet Avenue and Lake Street.

‘I Don’t Do Diversity, I Do Triage’

January 22, 2016 Lisa Brock, www.kzoo.edu Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Student Protests

By Lisa Brock for Praxis Center - On November 3, 2015, Jonathan Butler, a graduate student at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia, Missouri, launched a hunger strike. Fed up with “institutional racism” and the university’s unwillingness to seriously tackle it, he stated that he and other black students “felt unsafe” on campus. Mizzou’s students recounted scary drive-by insults, being called the n-word, and racist “pranks” as regular occurrences.[1]

College Students Support Professor On Leave For Views

January 13, 2016 Ehab Zahriyeh, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Christianity, College, Education, Muslims, Religion, Student Protests, Youth Activism

By Ehab Zahriyeh for Aljazeera - Dozens of students at Wheaton College in suburban Chicago protested on Monday against the school's move to terminate an associate professor who said Christians and Muslims worship the same God — a statement she made while wearing a hijab to show solidarity with women who face Islamophobia. Students filled the steps of the school's Edman Memorial Chapel chanting "Reinstate Doc Hawk," a nickname for Larycia Hawkins. The Protestant evangelical college said in a Jan. 5 statement on its website that its provost had begun a process for terminating her.

India: Mass Protests Against College Privatization

January 9, 2016 Express Web Desk, www.indianexpress.com Resist! Education, India, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Student Protests, Trade

By Express Web Desk for The Indian Express. New Delhi, India - Ever since news broke out about the non-National Eligibility Test (NET) fellowship being discontinued for research scholars, students across universities have risen up in protest. The Occupy UGC protest is on for over two months now and a lot of students across India is participating in the agitation. The Media Collective group has created the video humorously explaining how the move will affect the economically weaker students and ‘how the government is planning to put India’s education sector on sale.’

Undocumented Students Fight For Education & Immigrant Rights

January 4, 2016 Erika L. Sánchez, www.truth-out.org Resist! Chicago, Student Protests, Undocumented

By Erika L. Sánchez for Truthout - Oliver Merino of Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from high school in 2007. Though 24 percent of the students at his school were Latino, and a majority of those were undocumented, teachers and counselors were not aware of the post-high-school options available to their graduates. "There was absolutely no type of support," Merino said. According to the Center for American Progress, 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school each year. Although some states have passed their own versions of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), students across the United States continue to face many barriers in accessing higher education.

Princeton University Students Are Right On Racist Woodrow Wilson

December 17, 2015 Harvey Wasserman, www.itruth-out.org Educate! Higher Education, Student Protests

By Harvey Wasserman for Truth Out - Princeton University's long-overdue uproar over Woodrow Wilson's racism barely scratches the surface of the damage he did to US democracy. At the core of his foul legacy is the fact that he dragged the United States into a hated world war based on a monstrous lie, and that he used that war as cover to illegally shatter the United States' democratic Socialist Party while permanently shredding the US Constitution. Students at Princeton are now demanding Wilson's name be removed from the university's prestigious School of Public and International Affairs and a residential dorm.

Hundreds From DuSable Campus Stage Sit-In To Keep Library Open

December 12, 2015 Andrea V. Watson, www.dnainfo.com Resist! Education, Student Protests

By Andrea V. Watson for DNA Info - BRONZEVILLE — At least 200 students from the DuSable Campus walked out of class Friday as part of a demonstration to bring back their librarian and stop the library from closing. “The librarian is like a mentor to me, a resource,” said 17-year-old senior Sabaria Dean. “She's dedicated her entire life to DuSable and the children in it. She deserves to be here.” Students grabbed books from the school library, 4934 S Wabash Ave., and took a seat on the floor in the hallway to conduct a "read-in" or "sit-in."

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