Youth

Condoleezza Rice Protested At University Of Minnesota

April 24, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Student Activism, Student protest, Wars and Militarism, Youth

Hundreds of students and community members protested a speech by Condoleezza Rice at the University of Minnesota. Coleen Rowley explains why: "Not even a year after 9-11, Rice began giving fear-mongering speeches that falsely alluded to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s alleged possession of and intent to use nuclear bombs. Rice knew there was no evidence for her “mushroom cloud” speeches but numerous firsthand accounts and memoirs, along with the “Downing Street Memo,” provide evidence that she, along with other key Administration figures, signed onto “fixing the intelligence around the policy” of their previously agreed-upon goal: Launching war on Iraq."

Portland Student Union Plays Key Role in Faculty Union Win

April 23, 2014 Roshan Bliss, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Education, Student Activism, Student protest, Youth

The effectiveness of Portland students' support of their teachers is part of an important trend on US campuses. Despite the fact that they pay thousands of dollars in tuition each semester, students often find themselves with little to no substantive representation on campus, and in recent years, many have turned to building student unions (no, not the confusingly named "student union" buildings on campus). And especially since the widely celebrated, though little publicized, success of the 2012 student strike in Quebec, a veritable student unionism movement been spreading across the country - a trend which bodes well not only for students themselves, but also for teachers increasingly being squeezed by austerity policies in education.

Med Students Want Truly Just Healthcare System

April 18, 2014 James Besante, www.commondreams.org Resist! Healthcare, Single-Payer, Student Activism, Youth

Cardinal Bernardin said, “Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity, and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.” But nearly two decades later, the realization of the “right to health care” remains elusive...The ACA doesn’t change this picture as much as some might think. People who signed up for private coverage in the exchanges are finding they have substantial cost-sharing, i.e. high deductibles and copayments, proven barriers to seeking care. Patients are also finding themselves squeezed into “narrow networks,” which significantly limit their choice of doctors and hospitals. Accidentally step out-of-network, and your costs soar. The sad truth is that for many health insurance is an umbrella that melts in the rain—when you need it most, it isn’t there. ... the business of corporate medicine is doing very well under the ACA. Health insurer profits, stock value, and CEO salaries are all up. In fact, the entire law was written around preserving the gluttonous bottom lines in American health care. The ACA handed private insurers $500 billion in taxpayer subsidies to continue profiteering off illness in our country.

New Network for Social Justice Unionism Seeks to Change the Labor Movement

April 18, 2014 Roshan Bliss, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth

Rank and file labor leaders announced for the first time the creation of the Network for Social Justice Unionism (NSJU), a new infrastructure that unionists concerned with advancing social justice beyond the workplace hope to use to organize for a shift in the way the labor movement operates. The NSJU seeks to encourage the creation of social justice caucuses in union locals across the nation and to establish working relationships between those caucuses to be able to support each other's struggles. Together, these caucuses hope to create an movement inside of organized labor that pushes union leaders across the country to do more to see that union power benefits not just workers themselves, but also the communities that unions are embedded in and rely upon. The NSJU effort has its roots in recent struggles for change led by teachers, but seeks to encourage workers of all kinds to commit to lending their knowledge, resources, and influence to other ongoing struggles for justice beyond their workplaces.

Austerity Is Crap: A Brief History of the ‘#USM Future’ Protest Movement

March 28, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Acronym TV, Asher Platts, Austerity, Cuts in higher education, Democracy, Education, Finance and the Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Occupy, Poverty, Resistance Report, Solidarity, Student Activism, Student protest, The Punk Patriot, USM Future, USM Protest, Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth

For this round of cuts and consolidations, a solidarity between students and faculty had been well established, and grew and flourished under the recognition that we had shared goals in preserving the University of Maine System, not only for their jobs, or for our quality of education, but for the broader benefit of society that a liberal arts education provides, in allowing all working class people to lift themselves up into an intellectual realm that had until only recently in human history been reserved for priests and nobility. A vote of no confidence was issued forth from the Faculty Senate, and Selma Botman resigned, only to be replaced by President Theo Kalikow, who has continued forth advancing the austerity agenda on the University of Southern Maine. Selma Botman, while vacating the seat of the President, was allowed by administrators to continued to draw her salary for the duration of her term, and was in fact hired back as a consultant, and paid an additional $300,000 to write a paper, putting her annual earnings well into the realm of the top 1%. As though to thumb their noses at the student protestors, Administrators gave themselves a raise of $20,000 and upwards.

Kids Used As Pawns in Bid to Up Lottery Ticket Sales

March 27, 2014 Matthew Vaz, InTheseTimes.com Educate! Government, Inequality, Poverty, Youth

Lottery sales in America are driven by a core group of devotees, with 70 percent of national sales coming from only 20 percent of players. Who these players are is no mystery: According to Bloomberg News, households making between $30,000 and $40,000 a year spend twice as much on lottery tickets as households making upwards of $100,000, and high-school dropouts spend an average of $50 a month on lottery play, while people with graduate degrees spend $13. A lottery bill of $50 a month represents a real commitment, and in working-class households it undoubtedly pushes up against food expenses, rent, the electricity bill and other basic necessities. Thus it is a genuine challenge for states to drive lottery expenses among the poor any higher, even with the most well-executed advertising campaigns. In response, the New York state lottery has taken a new approach to advertising in the hopes of broadening its customer base.

How ‘Starving Student’ Cliche Became Harrowing Reality

March 20, 2014 Staff www.truthdig.com Educate! Hunger, Poverty, Student Activism, Youth

Meanwhile, it’s increasingly clear that the economic struggles students face during school follow them long past graduation. A major new report from the Pew Research Center, “Millennials in Adulthood: Detached from Institutions, Networked With Friends,” notes that people between 18 and 33 are the first generation in the modern era to have “higher levels ofstudent loan debt, poverty and unemployment, and lower levels of wealth and personal income than their two immediate predecessor generations (Gen Xers and Boomers) had at the same stage of their life cycles.” This, even though they are the “best-educated cohort of young adults in American history.”

VIDEO: Middle Schoolers Create Award-Winning NSA Documentaries

March 8, 2014 Staff wwww.blacklistednews.com Educate! NSA, Youth

EFF congratulates students from two middle schools who took home top prizes in the C-SPAN StudentCam 2014 competition for young filmmakers with their documentaries on mass surveillance. Students were tasked with answering the question: “What’s the most important issue the U.S. Congress should consider in 2014?” According to the C-SPAN press release: Peter Jasperse, Antonia Torfs-Leibman and Madeleine Hutchins, eighth graders at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Md., are national First Prize winners in the Middle School division. Peter, Antonia and Madeleine will share $3,000 for their First Prize documentary, 'The NSA: The Lengths of America's Security,' about NSA surveillance."

New Superhero Comic Character Based On Youth Activist

March 4, 2014 Staff, www.adastracomix.com Educate! Education, Indigenous Rights, Student Activism, Youth

In a recent posting on DC Women Kicking Ass, sources have confirmed that comic artist Jeff Lemire has followed through on his projection from last year that he would be creating a new superherobased on deceased Indigenous teen activist Shannen Koostachin. They will be appearing in Justice League #1 which comes out this May. Shannen and other Indigenous youth launched the Students Helping Students campaign for a school for Attawapiskat.Koostachin spoke out about the experiences of her community in newspapers, at conferences, and on the steps of Parliament Hill in 2008. In 2009, at the age of 14, in 2009 she was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize. Tragically, Shannen died on May 30, 2010 in a car accident. Her legacy to improve the conditions of First Nations communities–particularly youth and students–lives on in a campaign called Shannen’s Dream.

398 Arrested In KXL Civil Disobedience Action at White House

March 4, 2014 Joe Brusky, www.occupyriverwest.com Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Pipelines, Student Activism, Tar Sands, Youth

This past weekend, over one thousand young people converged on Washington, D.C, to protest the proposed construction of the controversial Keystone KL pipeline. These are the people that climate change will most directly affect, and they wanted President Obama to hear their concerns. We hope he was listening, as the weekend’s events, dubbed “XL Dissent” proved to be quite powerful. After all, the students and activists brought their urgent message right to the front door of the White House. Sunday morning, students and other supporters showed up at campus of Georgetown University to rally before marching over two miles to the White House. On the way to the White House the march made a stop in front of Secretary of State John Kerry’s home, where an oil spill was laid in down on the street in front of his home. Kerry and Obama have the final say on whether or not the pipeline in approved. The arrests continued through the afternoon and well into the cold and rainy evening until 398 student activists were arrested. Most organizers were expecting a few hundred to show up, but none expected the large group that finally showed up in DC to express their opposition to the pipeline and were willing to risk arrest in doing so.

Breaking: Initial Photos Massive Youth Protest #NoKXL

March 2, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Pipelines, Student Activism, Tar Sands, Youth

Below are some initial photographs from the #XLDissent youth protest against the Keystone Pipeline being held today in Washington, DC. More than 1,000 youth activists marched through Washington, DC to the White House. They carried signs opposing the KXL pipeline and saying "We did not vote for KXL" and "Obama: Stop the Pipeline of The PEOPLE Will." At the White House they chanted "We are unstoppable, another world is possible." There was a die-in on an oil spill in front of the White House involving scores of youth, some of whom were arrested. At the same time hundreds of youth zip-tied themsevles to the White House fence. They refused to leave after several police warnings and they began to be arrested. As each was arrested they shouted support to each other "We love you" they exclaimed.

‘Outrage Week’ at UNC-Greensboro Over Budget Cuts

February 27, 2014 Astrid Hacker, www.uncg-carolinian.com Resist! Education, Student Activism, Youth

Hundreds of students attended, including some professors with their classes. This past week was dubbed “Outrage Week” by many of the students and faculty upset by the impending budget cuts set to affect the upcoming 2014-2015 Academic Year. On Wednesday students and faculty organized a protest they titled, “Enough is Enough: UNCG Walks Out.” This protest took place on the EUC lawn and was prefaced by an email sent out to all UNCG students inviting them to join. One of the student organizers of the event, Emma Troxler, said, “The purpose of this protest is to gather students and faculty together to create a bigger movement and to fight for a better university.”

Immigrant Youth Faces Discrimination – Denied Enrollment in High School

February 19, 2014 Lesli A. Maxwell blogs.edweek.org Resist! Immigrant Rights, Racism, Youth

According to the complaint, one student—a 17-year-old girl from Honduras—was told by a Spanish-speaking Buncombe County school administrator who reviewed her schooling records from Honduras and the six months she spent in a Texas detention center for unaccompanied minors that she could not enroll in middle school or high school. Her second attempt to enroll at a local middle school several months later was also denied by the school's counselor, the complaint says. A spokesman for Buncombe County told the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper that he could not comment on specific students but that some of the facts in the complaint are not accurate. The complaint also describes the experience of a 17-year-old boy from Guatemala who attempted to enroll in a high school in Union County and was told by the school's secretary that he was too old. She referred the boy to a nearby community college's adult education center to enroll in its GED program. Administrators there turned the boy away for being too young, the complaint says. Eventually, the boy was able to enroll in the high school.

The Only Way To Solve Student Debt Crisis: Strategic Resistance

February 16, 2014 Bill Zimmerman, www.alternet.org Resist! Education, Finance and the Economy, Strike Debt, Student Activism, Youth

There is only one way out of the student loan crisis — civil disobedience on a massive scale. Two reforms could bring a fair settlement to banks and borrowers alike. However, while fair, these reforms would cost the banks billions in receivables, which means they will use their considerable political influence to block them. That's why civil disobedience is the only way to succeed. This is an emergency. In addition to the deepening distress experienced by millions of former students, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, and several other governmental agencies have all warned that the $1.1 trillion in unsecured educational debt, much of which will never be repaid, creates a significant danger to the entire economy similar to that generated by housing debt in 2008. This crisis is too big to sweep under the rug. Currently, close to ten million broke and under-employed former students are trapped in a debtors' prison without walls.

The Civil Rights of Children

February 14, 2014 Andrew Cohen, www.theatlantic.com Educate! Civil Rights, Youth

On December 5, 2013, Plaintiff A.J. and her mother walked about a mile to reach the court because the family does not have a car and public transportation is not available. When they reached the court, Plaintiff A.J. learned that her case was continued for another week because all of the public defenders were in Crisp County Superior Court handling cases. No one from the Cordele Circuit Public Defender’s Office notified Plaintiff A.J. or her mother in advance to inform them of the Public Defender’s planned absence or of the continuance. On December 13, 2013, Plaintiff A.J. appeared in Ben Hill County Juvenile Court again; this time, a public defender was present. This was Plaintiff A.J.’s first time seeing a public defender since her arraignment on October 24, 2013. Minutes before court began, the public defender informed Plaintiff A.J. that the prosecutor was seeking detention time. Plaintiff A.J. planned to deny all of the charges against her, but decided to admit to all of the charges because she had not talked to her public defender before that day in court and she did not believe he was prepared to mount a defense.

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