Student Protests

America’s Next Wave Of Student Protests Takes Aim At Capitalism

December 10, 2015 C. Robert Gibson, www.usuncut.com Resist! Capitalism, Student Protests

By C. Robert Gibson for US Uncut - After an historic year of campus activism, a new movement is building on college campuses to spearhead a nationwide conversation — how to outlast capitalism. In the last month or so, an unprecedented wave of activism has spread across college campuses nationwide. From the Million Student March to end student debt and implement tuition-free public colleges and universities, to the Black Lives Matter protests that were spontaneously organized to show solidarity with black students at the University of Missouri and other students fighting structural racism on campuses, the last month has been the busiest for student activism in decades.

Loyola Protest Organizers Could Be Reprimanded For Mizzou Solidarity Rally

December 5, 2015 Tony Briscoe, www.chicagotribune.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Student Protests

By Tony Briscoe for Chicago Tribune - Three Loyola University students who organized an unsanctioned protest in solidarity with a University of Missouri group last month could be reprimanded for violating the Chicago university's demonstration policy, according to a student group and a university spokesman. The students — Dominick Hall, Ryan Sorrell and Julian Marshall — identified themselves as organizers of a Nov. 12 protest focusing on campus inclusion for minority students held on Loyola's campus, and were contacted by leaders from the Division of Student Development the following week regarding their decision to not register the demonstration, according to university spokesman Steve Christensen.

Brazil Students Occupy 200 Schools Stop Restructuring of Schools

December 5, 2015 Cedar Attanasio, www.latintimes.com Resist! Brazil, Education, Student Protests

By Cedar Attanasio for Latin Times - Judge Iberê de Castro Dias has halted the controversial restructuring program that would have closed down more than 90 schools in the state of Sao Paulo Folhia's Monica Bergamo reports. The report coincided with another student protest Friday morning, in which 90 student protesters blocked a main street with school desks, according to @bentavener. Among the reasons for the freeze? Federal constitutional requirements to spend on children first. Alkmin's original reason for the restructuring, which cuts education spending, was meant for austerity. But a judge now says that he needs to open a period of public comment and focus on other areas to cut first

An Occupy Wall Street Founder, Provides Advice To Student Protesters

December 1, 2015 Micah White, www.qz.com Strategize! Occupy Wall Street, Student Protests

By Micah White for Quartz - As one of the original co-creators of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I’ve watched student protests sweep across campuses in Cape Town, Missouri, London and Los Angeles with a growing sense of optimism. The history of protest suggests that students are often the first to sense the opportunity for revolutionary change. I suspect that the new wave of campus protests could be the foreshock to the global social movement that activists have been hoping for since the end of Occupy. To increase the odds, here is some advice to student protesters, based on the lessons from my time with Occupy.

A Black Woman’s Response To Marginalization At Princeton

December 1, 2015 Ebony Slaughter, www.equalvoiceforfamilies.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Race, Student Protests

By Ebony Slaughter for Equal Voice - Professing themselves to be “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” student activists at my alma mater, Princeton University, passionately and powerfully challenged the university in recent days to make certain changes to improve the experience of Black students. They demanded, in the same vein as students at other colleges and universities, that Princeton offer mandatory sensitivity training for faculty, create a safe space for Black students and change the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In the process, in my opinion, they exposed the quiet, latent racism of Princeton.

What Lies Behind the ‘Occupy UGC’ Protest

November 27, 2015 Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, www.thewire.in Resist! Higher Education, India, New Delhi, Student Protests, Tuition

By Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty for The Wire - New Delhi: It was about a month ago that Ramesh Srivastava, a clerk at a bank in New Delhi’s ITO area, first noticed “young people” sitting on a pavement leading to the University Grants Commission office with a banner saying “Occupy UGC.” In the following days, Srivastava stopped by to read the rest of the banners and graffiti put up around the pavement and the nearby Metro station and chatted with “some boys and girls there to understand why they are protesting” the decision to terminate financial support for thousands of post-graduate students across the country.

Lewis & Clark Students Sit-In Over Campus Racial Violence

November 26, 2015 Betsy Hammond, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Higher Education, Race, Student Protests

By Betsy Hammond for The Oregonian - Dozens of Lewis & Clark College students began peacefully and silently occupying rooms outside the college president's office at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday to send him the message they want more done to create safety and inclusion on campus. They were still there at nightfall, and planned to remain overnight. Their protest comes after several race-related incidents on campus, including a Saturday morning attack on a black student from Rwanda who said three white men beat him while making racist remarks.

Brandeis Students Say Campus Lacks Racial Diversity

November 25, 2015 Jan Ransom, www.bostonglobe.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Jan Ransom for The Boston Globe - WALTHAM — Hundreds of students at Brandeis University have occupied the administration building that includes the president’s office since Friday, and they vow not to leave until the interim president, Lisa M. Lynch, promises to address their demands pertaining to diversity, including the hiring of additional black faculty and counselors. #ConcernedStudents2015, as the group calls itself, started its round-the-clock occupation of the Bernstein-Marcus Administrative Center after Lynch failed to address 13 concerns listed in a letter sent to her on Thursday.

U of Texas Professor Compares Palestinian Activists To Terrorists

November 23, 2015 Kit O'Connell , www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Palestine, Student Protests, Texas

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - AUSTIN, Texas — A planned walkout at a University of Texas at Austin event earlier this month erupted into a violent confrontation with the college’s professor of Israel Studies and another audience member. Now Palestinian activists say they feel unsafe on campus after the professor accused them of having ties to terrorism. The incident began at a Nov. 13 public lecture on the military culture of the Israeli Defense Forces. Twelve members of UT Austin’s Palestine Solidarity Committee planned to stage a short disruption to voice their objections to Israel’s occupation of Palestine and apartheid policies, then leave the event.

Occidental Students Occupy For Resignation Of President And More

November 20, 2015 Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Higher Education, Occupation, Race, Student Protests

By Tyler Kingkade for The Huffington Post - A group of more than 400 students have taken part in an ongoing occupation of an administrative building at Occidental College in Los Angeles to demand, among other things, the resignation of the school president, Jonathan Veitch. The student activists issued a list of demands at a rally Thursday in response to the treatment of minority student groups on campus. Other demands include the demilitarization of the campus police, the creation of a black studies major, and the immediate removal of the Los Angeles Police Department from campus. Activists have given the administration a Friday deadline to meet these demands.

GU Students Sit-In To Erase Names Of Slaveholders On Buildings

November 20, 2015 Elizabeth Teitz, www.georgetownvoice.com Resist! Higher Education, Race, Student Protests

By Elizabeth Teitz for The Georgetown Voice - Student organizers of the sit-in at University President John DeGioia’s office, who are calling their movement #BuiltOn272, have released a statement further explaining the impetus for fighting for the name change and their goals for the protest. “Black individuals have historically been an integral part of the foundation and advancement of Georgetown’s academic Institution with little to no recognition. We are imploring that the University recognize and acknowledge the role that Black people have had and continue to have on this campus,” the group wrote in its statement.

Students Protest At Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name

November 19, 2015 Staff, www.blink.htcsense.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Protests

By Staff of HTC - PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Students staged a protest Wednesday inside the office of Princeton University's president, demanding the school remove the name of former school president and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from programs and buildings over what they said was his racist legacy. Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber told the students he agreed with them that Wilson was racist and that the university needs to acknowledge that, according to a video posted to YouTube. But a school spokesman said the president also told students it is important to weigh Wilson's racism, and how bad it was, with the contributions he made to the nation.

Campus Racism Protests Didn’t Come Out Of Nowhere

November 18, 2015 Lilly Workneh, Tyler Kingkade, and Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com Strategize! Higher Education, Student Protests

By Lilly Workneh, Tyler Kingkade, and Ryan Grenoble for The Huffington Post - If there's one thing University of Missouri senior Alanna Diggs thinks people are getting wrong about campus racism protests, it's the assumption that they're something new. The demonstrations at Mizzou this month resulting in the ouster of two top university leaders, partly over how they handled various racist incidents on campus, Diggs said, "were not a result of spontaneous combustion.""It was not an overdramatic reaction by a couple of angry black students, but a moment built up over time," Diggs continued.

After Days Of Protests, Students Occupy Building At Occidental College

November 18, 2015 Jason Song and Teresa Watanabe, www.latimes.com Resist! Diversity, Higher Education, Student Protests

By Jason Song and Teresa Watanabe for Los Angeles Times - After several days of protesting Occidental College's handling of diversity issues, students occupied an administrative building Monday, demanding that the school president step down if officials don't take such steps as creating a black studies major and hiring more minority faculty. The actions come after weeks of student protests throughout the nation, including at the University of Missouri, where the president and chancellor resigned, and Ithaca College in upstate New York and Yale University.

Students Plan Further Protests Against Higher Education Reforms

November 16, 2015 Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com Resist! Education, Student Protests

By Matthew Taylor for The Guardian - Students are stepping up their campaign against government reforms for higher education with a series of demonstrations, sit-ins and strikes planned for the coming months. Campaigners who organised a major protest in London earlier this month have called for another day of action on 26 November and a two-day strike in the new year. Deborah Hermanns, from the National Campaign against Fees and Cuts, which is organising the protests, said: “The reforms introduced by this Tory government represent the biggest attack on public education in decades

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