Student Protests

Newsletter: Youth Recognize Their Power & Build It

November 15, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Democracy, Fight for 15, Immigration, Occupy, Paris, Peace, Plutocracy, Racism, Student Activism, Student Debt, Student Protests, Terrorism, Tuition, Wages, Youth

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Youth are rising up. They have been showing leadership on multiple fronts of struggle. They see a broken system dysfunctional government that is corrupted by money. It is unable to respond to the crisis of climate change; the reality of systemic racism; students graduating with massive debt in a poor job market and so many other issues. Politicians aren’t the only voices with power. We have power, too. And we have more power when we act together. Young people don’t live single-issue lives. We live at the intersection of the most pressing problems today. Our movements are connected and our purpose is huge. Martin Luther King described the civil rights movement as a time when the “people moved their leaders, not the leaders who moved the people.” If enough of us push together toward a new vision, the world will begin to move. That is a message we should all take to heart. We should continue to exercise our power, continue to fight injustices and as we do so, our power will grow.

Yale Protesters Occupy President’s Lawn With New Diversity Demands

November 14, 2015 Casey Breznick, www.campusreform.org Resist! Race, Student Protests

By Casey Breznick for Campus Reform - Student protesters at Yale released a list of 19 demands Thursday night, and have given Yale President Peter Salovey until Wednesday to announce his intention to implement them. The protest group, numbering about 200 and now calling itself Next Yale, marched to Salovey’s house at close to midnight Thursday and presented the demands to him, according to the Yale Daily News. The document was also published on DOWN Magazine’s website, a publication focused on issues for students of color at Yale.

Campus Race Protests About Systemic Racism That’s Never Gone Away

November 14, 2015 Luna Olavarría Gallegos, www.theguardian.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Luna Olavarría Gallegos for The Guardian - This week’s student protests may be organized on social media, but they’re not addressing anything new. The iconic moment of black campus protests was captured way back in 1969, when students from Cornell University’s Afro-American Society left Willard Straight Hall carrying rifles and wearing bandoliers, part of a protest against disciplining black students who had advocated for an Africana Studies and Research Center. Forty-six years later, students all over the country continue to protest for their right to exist on a college campus free of racial discrimination.

US Students Hold Nationwide Protests Against High Tuition Fees

November 13, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Higher Education, Student Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur TV - Students at more than a hundred colleges and universities held marches on Thursday in support of free tuition Students from over 100 US universities staged demonstrations on Thursday protesting against the growing cost of university tuition and student debt. The campaign, dubbed the Million Student March, consists of three demands: liquidation of all student loan debt, a national minimum wage of $15 an hour and tuition-free public higher education. "We are high school, college, and graduate students, recent graduates, campus workers, former students, parents, and grandparents uniting in a day of action on November 12, 2015...

History Has Good News For Today’s Student Protesters

November 12, 2015 Lily Rothman, www.time.com Educate! Missouri, Student Protests, University of Missouri

By Lily Rothman for The Times - In recent days, as protests over racial issues at the University of Missouri have resulted in the resignation of university president Tim Wolfe, and as thousands of Yale students organized a march in response to racial divisions on their own campus, it’s been easy to compare this latest wave of campus activism with previous such moments in American history. The anti-war demonstrations that swept the nation during the late 1960s and ’70s remain perhaps the most famous moment of American student activism—and, if the comparison holds, they provide at least one reason for today’s activists to be optimistic about the larger implications of their visibility.

Racism At Yale Culminated In Over 1,000 Marching

November 12, 2015 Avianne Tan, www.abcnews.go.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Avianne Tan for ABC News - Two weeks of protests culminated in a "March of Resilience" at Yale University Monday afternoon, when hundreds of students, faculty and administrators marched from the Ivy League school's Afro-American Cultural Center carrying signs with messages like "Black Students Matter," "We out here. We've been here. We ain't leaving. We are loved" and "Your Move, Yale." Here are the allegations of racism that numerous student organizations cite as perceived examples of issues of concern to students of color and their supporters...

Mizzou-Inspired Protests Coming At Other Colleges

November 12, 2015 Staff, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Staff of Reuters - NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Students are holding events designed to bring attention to racial issues on a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred on by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri, which culminated in the resignation of the school's president and chancellor on Monday. Peaceful marches or walkouts have occurred, or are planned, at Yale University, Ithaca College and Smith College in the Northeastern United States, though none has yet reached the intensity of demonstrations at Missouri, where hundreds of students and teachers protested what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus.

Million Student March To Be Held Thursday

November 11, 2015 Brendan Deady, www.dailycollegian.com Organize! Education, Student Protests

By Brendan Deady for Daily Collegian - As the clock neared 6 p.m. Friday, Filipe Carvalho, a senior majoring in economics and finance, sprawled across the floor of Center for Educational Policy and Advocacy’s office and let out an exasperated sigh. His humorous gesture was an acknowledgment of the exhaustion shared by all the students in the room. Carvalho, the policy and legislative director for CEPA, was surrounded by representatives from UMass for Bernie Sanders, MASSPIRG, the Coalition to end Rape Culture, the Student Labor Action Party and a few others.

What Happened At The University Of Missouri?

November 11, 2015 Claire Landsbaum and Greta Weber, www.slate.com Resist! Race, Student Protests

By Claire Landsbaum and Greta Weber for The Slate - On Monday, the University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe resigned amid student protests against his handling of racial incidents on campus. “My decision to resign comes out of love, not hate,” Wolfe said. "Please, please use this resignation to heal and start talking again.” Wolfe’s decision comes during a tense time at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus. On November 2, MU graduate student Jonathan Butler announced his decision to go on a hunger strike until Wolfe took his concerns, as well as theconcerns of activist group Concerned Student 1950, seriously.

High School Students Walk Out In Response To Racist Threats

November 9, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Berkeley, Race, Student Protests

By Ashoka Jegroo for Waging Nonviolence - More than a thousand high school students in Berkeley, California walked out of class on November 5 in a protest against racist threats left on a school library’s computer in support of the Ku Klux Klan and threatening a “public lynching” next month. “This is an act of domestic terrorism,” one student attending the protest told Fusion. “This is terrorism and it should be treated as such.” The controversy began at around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday when people at Berkeley High School — a public school located a few blocks away from University of California — discovered that one of the school library’s computers was displaying a page full of racist slurs and threats, including messages like “KKK Forever” and “Public Lynching December 9th 2015.”

Black Players To Boycott Football Until University President Is Removed

November 9, 2015 Matt Hladik, www.collegespun.com Resist! Student Protests

By Matt Hladik for College Spun - In the wake of mounting racial tension, which culminated in a swastika scrawled in human feces appearing on a dorm room wall last month, a University of Missouri graduate student named Jonathan Butler is waging a hunger strike in protest. Butler plans on continuing his strike until the university’s president, Tim Wolfe, steps down or is removed from his post. Wolfe has been accused by Butler and others of negligence in addressing the rising tension and racial problems on campus.Tonight, black players on the Missouri football team joined Butler’s fight. The group posted a message on Twitter declaring that they would be boycotting all football activities until Wolfe is gone.

London Students Clash With Police Over Tuition Increases

November 6, 2015 Laura Hughes and Nicola Harley, www.telegraph.co.uk Resist! Student Protests, Tuition, United Kingdom (UK)

By Laura Hughes and Nicola Harley for The Telegraph - A student protest over tuition fees descended into violence on Wednesday just hours after the shadow chancellor told demonstrators that they had been "betrayed" by the government. John McDonnell addressed thousands of students in central London who were calling for the end of tuition fees and the return of maintenance grants. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, did not join the protests but had a message read out to demonstrators urging students to "keep campaigning for justice".

Chicago’s Charter School Expansion Draws Ire Of Zombie Protesters

November 2, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Chicago, Student Protests

By Ashoka Jegroo for Waging Nonviolence - Hundreds of students, along with their teachers, walked out of their Chicago high school on October 28 in a protest against proposed charter schools. The students say that these new charter schools will end up draining resources from already-underfunded neighborhood schools. “I fear that our public schools don’t have enough resources, and they deserve more funds to grow current programs,” high school senior Stephanie DeLeon told DNAInfo. The students attend Thomas Kelly High School in Brighton Park, a neighborhood in southwest Chicago. Just a few blocks away, on a now-vacant lot, the Noble Network of Charter Schools wants to build a new high school capable of taking in 1,100 students, along with a good amount of funding, from surrounding schools.

7 Days till Shutdown: Homeless Students Need Same Internet Access

October 31, 2015 Staff, www.voqal.com Petitions and Online Actions Homelessness, Pennsylvania, Student Activism, Student Protests

By Staff of Voqal - When families with students enrolled at Central Pennsylvania Digital Learning Foundation can’t afford Internet access, the cyber school provides affordable solutions through Mobile Citizen. According to Technology Coordinator Micheal Tambellini, the number of families requiring connectivity assistance is growing. “We have a small percentage of homeless students enrolled today, and unfortunately that number seems to be increasing,” he said. “To keep up with the curriculum, they need the same Internet access as all of our other cyber students.”

South Africa: The Meaning Of The #FeesMustFall Movement

October 27, 2015 Ben Morken, www.marxist.com Resist! #FeesMustFall, South Africa, Student Protests, Tuition

By Ben Morken for In Defense of Marxism - On Friday, 23 October, South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, announced that there will be no increases to student university fees for next year. This was a clear attempt by the government to contain a movement which has became too big to control. This is evident from last Friday’s events. While Zuma was meeting with vice-chancellors and academics, students were kept on the south lawns of the Union Buildings in the scorching sun. Earlier, the #FeesMustFall movement had refused to meet with the president behind closed doors. This is a clear indication of the mistrust which the movement has for the government and of those in power.

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