Students

‘Continue The Fight!’: A ‘98 Activist Reflects On The 2019 Student Movement In Indonesia

October 8, 2019 Amalinda Savirani, Theconversation.com Resist! Class Struggle, Indonesia, Social Movements, Student Activism, Students

When young people around the world took to the streets last week to call for action on climate change, thousands of students across Indonesia were marching too. Like their global peers, haze from forest fires that have turned the sky red in Indonesia was part of their concern. But they were also marching to protest the country’s lawmakers and government, whom they believe to be jeopardising democracy. Democracy was won in Indonesia 20 years ago, in 1998, after a student movement, which I took part in, put pressure on Soeharto’s three-decade rule.

Vista High School Students Demand Climate Action

October 5, 2019 Juliana Musheyev, Liberationnews.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Students

Students from Rancho Buena Vista High School organized a sit-in at Vista City Hall Sept. 27 to demand a stronger climate action plan. Close to a hundred people attended, most under the age of 18. Vista has a Climate Action Plan, which is required by California law, but it has not been implemented. According to organizer of the sit-in Leana Cortez: “[The plan] was written in 2012. Nothing. We’re in 2019, almost 2020. Still nothing. We do have problems with the plan overall, It’s a little bit diluted. However, I think our biggest concern is that it hasn’t been implemented, because we are running out of time.”

Over 1,000 Students Across 17 Colleges Pledge Not To Work At Palantir Over ICE Work

September 18, 2019 By Emily Birnbaum, Thehill.com Resist! ICE, Immigration, Student Activism, Students, Technology, Undocumented

Over 1,000 students across 17 U.S. colleges are pledging to not work for software company Palantir over its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), escalating the widespread protests against the company founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel. The student-led campaign went public on Monday with a letter signed by over 1,200 students calling out specific colleges over their ties to Palantir. The students hail from colleges including Yale, Stanford, Harvard and the University of California-Berkley. "We the undersigned are pledging not to work at Palantir while it continues to do business with ICE," the petition reads.

‘Fuera JOH’: Honduras Protests, Police Respond With Violence

August 8, 2019 From Daniel Langmier, Honduras Forum Switzerland. Resist! Honduras, Police abuse, Students, US coup

Protests are happening daily now calling for the president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, to resign. Here is a compilation of reports provided by The Honduras Solidarity Network we received last night. Honduras lived through another day of protest and the participants suffered more repression by the JOH regime. The international press started to cover this new wave of protests. The Honduras Solidarity Network denounces three injured students at least one by bullets, in Tegucigalpa. In San Pedro Sula, the police threw tear gas into buses transporting university students. UNAH dean Francisco Herrera called it "a barbaric act". The Platform for the Defense of Education and Healthcare calls for new protests today including one in front of the MP demanding the issuance of an arrest warrant against JOH and his family.

“Go Forth And Lie” Israel Rolls Out Mandatory Course For Students Travelling Abroad

July 10, 2019 By Miko Peled, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Israel, Nationalism, Students

Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, recently demanded that the Israeli Education Ministry halt an online course that was designed to prepare young Israelis traveling abroad to be “good ambassadors.” The content, particularly regarding anti-semitism and BDS (the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement), is so offensive to Arabs and Muslims that a school in Nazareth canceled an exchange program for high school students from the city to go to Sweden, rather than having the students exposed to the content of the course.

Help Today’s College Students As We Did For Previous Generations

May 23, 2019 By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org Create! Higher Education, Student Debt, Students

When I speak on college campuses, I ask students to write the amount of debt they anticipate graduating with on a slip of paper. In a recent class of 25 undergraduates at Boston College, just eight will graduate without debt, either because of full scholarships or family wealth. For the rest, an imposing debt looms — $40,000 on average, but with six reporting more than $150,000. Can you imagine being 22 and having $150,000 in debt? This is generational abuse. Previous generations were propelled forward by free or very low-cost higher education at land-grant universities and robust free college systems in states like California and New York.

Arizona Students Marched For Classmate Thomas Torres-Maytorena, Who’s Facing Deportation Court On Graduation Day

May 12, 2019 By Lucy Diavolo, Teenvogue.com Resist! Arizona, Deportation, Immigration, Protests, Students, Undocumented

Students from Arizona’s Desert View High School marched miles from their campus to a local sheriff's office in a show of support for Thomas Torres-Maytorena, an 18-year-old senior and football player facing possible deportation just weeks ahead of when he was scheduled to graduate, NBC News and the Associated Press reported. That’s because Customs and Border Protection (CBP, which oversees Border Patrol) is holding Thomas on immigration charges following a traffic stop by local law enforcement.

A Michigan College-Bound Student Was Among The 35 Beheaded By Saudi Arabia

April 26, 2019 Tyler Huckabee, Relevantmagazine.com Educate! Higher Education, Michigan, Saudi Arabia, State Violence, Students

Mujtaba al-Sweikat was only 17 years old when he was detained by the Saudi Arabian government in 2012 for the alleged crime of attending a pro-democracy rally. He’d been planning on leaving the country to attend Western Michigan University, where he’d been accepted as a student, and was in fact detained at the airport as he was preparing to board an international flight to the United States. But al-Sweikat was convicted based on a confession extracted via torture and beheaded on Tuesday along with more than 35 other men who were executed for various crimes — most having to do with pro-democracy demonstrations and denouncing the authoritarian regime, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

Chilean Police Repress Thousands Of Protesting Students

April 26, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Chile, Protests, Repression, Students

Thousands of students peacfully demonstrated in Santiago Thursday during a renewed protest to demand sweeping education reforms, but were attacked by anti-riot police. The march, which had started peacefully with thousands of students carrying signs and banners demanding reforms, turned into violent clashes as anti-riot police attacked protesters. Police used water canons and tear gas to disperse the large crowds of students who responded by throwing rocks and other objects at police.

Millions Of Youth March Against Climate Change

March 17, 2019 Bryan Dyne, WSWS.org. Resist! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Students, Youth

An estimated 1.4 million students and youth walked out of school and took part in Friday’s worldwide demonstrations against climate change. The internationally coordinated protests, the largest in sixteen years, were organized in response to the growing realization among young people that the governments of the world are incapable of taking any significant measures to halt global warming. The latest UN report states that there may be as little as eleven years before the impact of climate change on human civilization becomes exponentially more devastating. The demonstrators have also directed their outrage against international agreements such as the Paris Accord, which have all proven to be worthless in addressing the crisis.

As Hundreds Of Thousands Of Students Prepare For Global #ClimateStrike On March 15, Here’s How To Get Involved

March 13, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Students

"We are striking because our world leaders have yet to acknowledge, prioritize, or properly address our climate crisis." In 92 countries and counting, hundreds of thousands of students are planning to skip school on March 15 as part of the "School Strike 4 Climate"—a growing movement of young people demanding that policymakers worldwide take urgent and radical steps to battle the climate crisis. "I think we are only seeing the beginning. I think that change is on the horizon and the people will stand up for their future."

Does “Special Ed” Serve Students? Disability Activists Say No.

February 25, 2019 By Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout.org Create! Activism, Disability Rights, Education, Students

As a child born with cerebral palsy in the 1950s, Gail Cartenuto-Cohn had one option when she was old enough to go to school: enroll in an isolated public program specifically for kids with disabilities. There was no interaction with nondisabled kids, and there were just three classrooms: one for kindergarten through second grade, another for grades three through five, and a third for sixth through eighth. Occupational therapy, as well as physical therapy and speech therapy, were provided on-site, and although Cartenuto-Cohn describes the education she received as better than adequate, when it was time for her to enroll in high school, she says she was clueless about what to expect.

Germany: Fridays For Future

February 14, 2019 Conny Dahmen, Socialistworld.net Resist! Coal, Germany, Protests, Students

“There’s no point in learning for a future that doesn’t exist.” With this motto, more and more young people this year have taken to the streets every week to fight climate change. On January 18, more than 30,000 school students in more than 50 cities across Germany went on strike. Last Friday, 10,000 of them went to Berlin to exert pressure on the Coal Commission, which presented its results of negotiations at the weekend. There have also been large demonstrations in Switzerland and Belgium in recent weeks: on 18 January, 22,000 school students went on strike in Switzerland; on Thursday, 24 January, 35,000 young demonstrators marched through Brussels - making it the biggest youth protest in many years...

I Was A Student Worker Fighting For A $15 Wage. Now, I’m Facing A Criminal Record.

February 4, 2019 Ina Padua, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, Minimum Wage, Students, Workers

On Monday, February 4, I will have my day in court in New Brunswick, New Jersey. That’s not where I’d like to be spending my morning. I’d rather be at my office in DC working on getting back-pay for federal contract workers. But on Monday, 11 of my former classmates and I will march into the courtroom with our lawyer and defend ourselves against the charges brought upon us by our alma mater—Rutgers University. On December 12, 2017, dozens of students, workers, and activists of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) staged a peaceful protest asking the Board of Trustees to give campus workers like me $15 an hour and a union contract.

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