Students

Dangerous Times In India: Extreme Right Targeting College Students

April 9, 2016 www.alternet.org Resist! Higher Education, India, Students

By Vijay Prashad for AlterNet - What data set she peered into is not clear. India continues to top the UN Food & Agricultural Organization’s hunger list (195 million undernourished people in the country). On UNESCO’s list of adult illiteracy, India sits on top, with 287 million people. Growth rates might rise, but its advantages sneak into the coffers of the über-rich. Indians will not necessarily lead the names in the Panama Papers, but this is after all only one law firm from one country. “Black money” is a scourge of India, as the current government suggested when it came to office.

Students Assert Their ‘Right To Dissent’ In India

March 9, 2016 Bhavana Mahajan, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Higher Education, India, Students

By Bhavana Mahajan for Waging Nonviolence - A new era in public debate and polarization has dawned in India over the last few weeks following the government’s crackdown on students and universities across the country under the guise of protecting “nationalist sentiment.” In May 2014, the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, came to power in India with an absolute majority.

FBI Has New Plan To Spy On High School Students Across Country

March 7, 2016 Sarah Lazare, www.alternet.org Educate! Fascism, FBI, Students

By Sarah Lazare for AlterNet - Under new guidelines, the FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies and “western corruption” as potential future terrorists, warning that “anarchist extremists” are in the same category as ISIS and young people who are poor, immigrants or travel to “suspicious” countries are more likely to commit horrific violence. Based on the widely unpopular British “anti-terror” mass surveillance program, the FBI’s "Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools" guidelines, released in January, are almost certainly designed to single out and target Muslim-American communities.

Egyptian Students ‘Kidnapped By Security Forces’

February 13, 2016 Staff, www.alaraby.co.uk Educate! Disappearances, Egypt, Students

By Staff of The New Arab - Mohammed Yousry Ali, an engineering student, was kidnapped by police while he was heading to see friends, reported Egypt's Human Rights Monitor, a group set up to act as a watchdog for violations of rights. Ali's family have made numerous complaints with the Attorney General and other relevant authorities, but have seemingly been ignored, and Egyptian authorities have refused to declare his whereabouts. The family said that since his abduction, they have faced "psychological hell" as they wait for news about their son.

A New Era Of Global Protest Begins

January 15, 2016 Rajesh Makwana, www.sharing.org Resist! Austerity, Climate Change, Democracy, Environment, Global Protests, Human Rights, Inequality, Protests, Racism, Students, Wages

By Rajesh Makwana for STWR - It’s reasonable to conclude from a simple analysis of these trends that a revolutionary change is taking place in the global political landscape. As policymaking becomes increasingly subverted by powerful vested interests, the resulting democratic deficit is being filled by concerned citizens who are demanding that governments take heed of their collective demands. This signifies a fundamental shift in the relationship between citizens and the State, and heralds a new expression of democracy that is still in its infancy but already capable of shaping public opinion, influencing policy discussions and even toppling governments.

This Is The Age Of Dissent – Much More To Come

January 15, 2016 David J. Bailey, www.theconversation.com Resist! Austerity, Environment, Housing, Immigration, Protests, Racism, Students, Wages

By David J. Bailey for The Conversation - The year 2011 is widely viewed as the peak of protest and dissent in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the austerity agenda that followed it. It was the year of the Arab Spring, Occupy, UK Uncut, indignados, urban riots and anti-austerity and tuition fee protests – and in which Time magazine famously named “The Protester” as its person of the year. Yet in the UK, protests continue to occur at a rate rarely seen prior to the global economic crisis in 2008. Indeed, 2015 seems to have confirmed the suggestion, made at the beginning of the year, that 2011 was “really only just the beginning”.

100,000 NYC School Children Face Airport-Style Security Every Day

January 14, 2016 Cecilia Reyes, www.propublica.org Educate! New York City (NYC), Privacy, Schools, Students

By Cecilia Reyes for Pro Publica and WNYC - On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the front of a Brooklyn school building. They shed their jackets, gloves and belts, shivering as they wait to pass through a metal detector and send their backpacks through an x-ray machine. School safety agents stand nearby, poised to step in if the alarm bleats. It’s an everyday occurrence for more than 100,000 middle and high school students across the city. On this morning, as on every school day, senior Justin Feldeo prepares to be pulled aside for separate screening by a hand wand. Feldeo is studying to be a firefighter and the boots he wears for class trigger the metal detectors.

USDOE Threatens Low-Income Families Over Opt Out

January 4, 2016 Marla Kilfoyle, www.badassteachers.blogspot.com Educate! Education, Poverty, Students, Testing

By Marla Kilfoyle for Badass Teachers Association - As much as corporate education reformers (and we will include the USDOE in this category) want you to believe that standardized testing is used to help children, educators know the truth. What the USDOE issued on Dec. 22nd shows in full transparency that the testing agenda is not about helping children but more about making sure testing companies get their profits, and data mongers get their data. On December 22nd, the USDOE sent a threatening letter to the Chief State School Officers regarding opt out. Ann Whelan wrote the letter and specifically stated, “ED may take enforcement action.

Students Share What It’s Like To Be Black At Mizzou

November 13, 2015 Taryn Finley and Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Students

Taryn Finley and Mariah Stewart for The Huffington Post - Being black at the University of Missouri was tough long before the country started paying attention to why. Cultural insensitivity, racial slurs and de facto segregation are the common threads minority students say separate the 7 percent of black students from the 77 percent white students that make up the school's population. In the video above, four black students share their experiences with The Huffington Post on what their life is like dealing with racism on campus. For months, students of various backgrounds protested a lack of administrative action on racial tensions and other significant issues.

Dozens Of CUNY Faculty And Students Arrested In Labor Protest

November 6, 2015 Noah Hurowitz, www.dnainfo.com Resist! Labor, Protest, Students, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Noah Hurowitz for DNA Info - MURRAY HILL — About 50 CUNY faculty and staff members were arrested Wednesday after blockading the entrance to a CUNY administrative building in protest of going five years without a contract, according to organizers and police. Protesters wearing black T-shirts with the words “Five Years without a Contract Hurts CUNY Students,” were seen being handcuffed and led from the front of 205 E. 42nd St. Wednesday evening, video showed. “Tax the rich, not the poor, stop the war on CUNY,” protesters were heard chanting while blocking the entrance to the building, which houses the system’s human resources and administrative offices.

Chile: Nationwide Student Protests For Free Education

May 17, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Education, Students

Thousands of students in cities all across Chile hit the streets on May 14 to demand free education. Chilean students, frustrated with President Michelle Bachelet and the government’s lack of progress on the issue, want to have more of a say in how education is reformed. “They don’t listen to us on the reforms,” Maria Jose, a 17-year-old student at the Santiago protest, told AFP. “We want to be heard. We’re disillusioned. It’s the same every time, the reforms get gridlocked before they accomplish anything truly good.” On May 21, Bachelet is set to make a speech addressing her plans for how she will go about making changes to Chile’s education system, and the students hoped to make a statement ahead of that speech. “This march has a direct relation with the fact that we are a week away from May 21,” Valentina Saavedra, president of the Confederation of Chilean Students, or ConFECH

Aggressive Police Response To Quebec Anti-Austerity Protest

March 29, 2015 Canadian Press, www.news.nationalpost.com Resist! Austerity, Montreal, Students

MONTREAL – A student group is denouncing the police after a protester was shot in the face with part of a tear-gas canister at an anti-austerity demonstration. Naomie Tremblay-Trudeau told various media Friday she is considering legal action against the police after video of her being shot at point-blank range in Quebec City circulated on YouTube. Camille Godbout of the ASSE student group says it wasn’t an isolated incident. She said a police dog attacked a protester earlier this week in Quebec City and that another demonstrator was injured after being allegedly struck by a police baton in Montreal.

BREAKING: Students Sitting-In For Divestment At UMW

March 26, 2015 UMW Students, www.wearepowershift.org Resist! Climate Change, Divestment, Oil and Gas, Students

The UMW Board of Visitors has dismissed the demands of thousands of students, faculty, and people worldwide by refusing to establish a subcommittee to investigate the financial realities of a fossil free endowment. Students are taking action to show that this denial is unacceptable. In February, DivestUMW delivered a detail presentation on divestment to the Board and demanded the formation of a subcommittee, which would provide information and transparency to advance divestment research. A month after the presentation, Holly Cuellar, Rector of the Board, denied the students’ demand without deliberation or a vote. Stand with these students to show Rector Cuellar that this dismissal is unacceptable. We’re counting on your help to build a strong collective voice.

March Tonight For Martese Johnson, Beaten By Police

March 18, 2015 Jia Tolentino, www.jezebel.com Resist! Police violence, Racism, Students

A march is being organized in Charlottesville for 8 p.m. tonight, from the main landmark on campus—the Rotunda—to the police department downtown. Reports: Black UVA Student Beaten by Police for Having Fake ID Charlottesville, VA - On Tuesday night, a third-year student at the University of Virginia named Martese Johnson was reportedly thrown to the ground by police officers and bloodied in public on the main social drag of campus—all apparently because he tried to use a fake ID. Martese Johnson is black. All reports are alleging that he did not resist the officers' use of force in any way, and the officers continued to brutalize him while onlookers pleaded with them to stop. A graphic photo taken at the scene is now circulating widely on the internet.

Illinois Schools Demand Students Social Media Passwords

January 25, 2015 Zaid Jilani, www.alternet.org Educate! Privacy, Students

In 2013, Illinois passed a lawrequiring schools to ask elementary and secondary students to provide passwords to their social media accounts if they believe that they violated a rule or policy. The policy went into effect this month, and one school district, the Triad Community Unit School District #2, already sent out letters to parents informing them of the new policy. “It’s one thing for me to take my child’s social media account and open it up, or for the teacher to look or even a child to pull up their social media account, but to have to hand over your password and personal information is not acceptable to me,” said Sarah Bozarth, one of the parents in the district. “The district understands student privacy interests," Superintendent Leigh Lewis told The Washington Post, "and will not haphazardly request social media passwords unless there is a need, and will certainly involve parents throughout the process."

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