Youth

Pack The Court For Two Suspended CUNY Student Leaders

November 17, 2013 Buy Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Student Activism, Youth

There is now a new and unprecedented escalation in repression against the CUNY movement and the campaign to save the Morales / Shakur Center at the City College of New York (CCNY). Earlier this week, Tafadar “Taffy” Sourov and Khalil Vasquez, two student leaders suspended without a hearing by CCNY, were ordered by the New York State Police and the New York County District Attorney’s office to present themselves downtown to be arrested. They were told that criminal charges would be filed against them, as a result of three-week-old allegations against them from the October 24 demonstration at CCNY to save the Morales / Shakur Center. PACK THE COURT IN SUPPORT OF THE (2) SUSPENDED CUNY COLLEGE STUDENT LEADERS FACING EXPULSION and/or PRISON FOR SUPPORTING & DEFENDING THE GUILLERMO MORALES-ASSATA SHAKUR COMMUNITY & STUDENT CENTER @ HARLEM'S CCNY! STAND WITH TAFFY & KHALIL AT THEIR FIRST COURT DATE Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 Time: 9:30 AM Place: Manhattan Criminal Court, 100 Centre Street, Arraignment Part AR1 or AR2 Please Wear Something Visible In Warrior RED & arrive at 9 AM SHARP to go through the metal detectors.

Students Try to Occupy Bulgarian Parliament Building

November 17, 2013 Max Rivlin-Nadler and David M. Herszenhorn, www.nytimes.com Resist! Bulgaria, Student Activism, Youth

Student protesters tried but failed to occupy the Bulgarian Parliament building here on Friday, then marched through the city center and broke through four police cordons in the latest of a series of angry demonstrations against the center-left government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski. There were no reports of serious violence, and the police made only scattered arrests before the student demonstrators retreated to the main building of Sofia University, which they have occupied since Oct. 23, bringing classes to a halt. Officials were bracing for the possibility of additional unrest at rallies by rival political parties this weekend. Bulgaria has been convulsed by near constant protests since mid-June, when citizens took to the streets in outrage over the appointment of Delyan Peevski, a politically connected media magnate, as the head of the State Agency for National Security. Although Mr. Peevski resigned, some protesters said his selection proved that shadowy business interests controlled the government.

Video: Police Recruiting Activist To Spy On Students & Political Groups

November 16, 2013 Rob Evans and Mustafa Khalili, www.theguardian.com Educate! Police abuse, Student Activism, Video, Youth

The police recruitment tactics described below are not unique to the UK, but would also not be unusual in the United States or many parts of the world. A police officer has been covertly filmed attempting to recruit an activist to spy on Cambridge university students and other campaigners. The activist secretly recorded this meeting with a police officer who had asked him to become an informant. Here, the officer names some of the proposed targets of the surveillance: students, environmentalists, anti-fascists and UK Uncut campaigners against tax avoidance by big business. We are not revealing the identities of the police officer and activist. A Cambridgeshire police spokesperson said: 'Officers use covert tactics to gather intelligence, in accordance with the law, to assist in the prevention and detection of criminal activity'

Santa Cruz Students Announce Solidarity Strike With Workers

November 16, 2013 Staff, www.swpucsc.tumblr.com Resist! Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth

Today we announce that our union, UAW Local 2865—the union representing 12,000 TA’s, tutors, and readers across the UC—will be joining CNA and UC’s Skilled Craft’s Unit in a one-day sympathy strike with AFSCME 3299, the union representing service workers, janitors and shuttle drivers. A sympathy strike is about conveying a powerful message of strength and solidarity for our Union brothers and sisters. A strike is most effective if we all participate and honor the strike. This means we are hoping TA’s, tutors, and readers refrain from all work duties that day. That includes: teaching sections; holding office hours; grading papers; and in general, anything related to your duties as an academic worker. Instead, graduate students workers should join AFSCME, CNA, the Skilled Crafts Unit and hundreds of undergraduates on the picket lines throughout the day. And we should encourage our students, friends, cohorts, department administrators, family, neighbors, and faculty to join us.

Chile Likely To Move More Radically Progressive

November 13, 2013 Editorial, www.theguardian.com Educate! Chile, Finance and the Economy, Student Activism, Youth

Michelle Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which is more radical and progressive than that of her first There is no contest between the two leading candidates, Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei, in Chile's presidential election on Sunday. Ms Bachelet will be re-elected president – the only question being whether she achieves victory in one round or two. The two women do have, however, a shared history . As little girls they were neighbours in the same barracks, when their fathers, both generals in the air force, were friends. But there was always a political divide between the two families, and what bonds there were, were ripped apart by Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup. Mr Matthei was promoted to run the air force, and remains to this day an unrepentant former member of the military junta. And Ms Bachelet's father was tortured, and died in detention of a stroke. Ms Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which if anything is more radical and progressive than that of her first term. Wealth is still concentrated in the hands of a few affluent families, and inequality, particularly in higher education, is a major issue. Pushed by students who have turned out weekly in their thousands in demonstrations which have captured public sympathy, Ms Bachelet is offering free higher education over the next six years.

Parents Of The Revolution

November 11, 2013 Staff, www.parentsoftherevolution.com Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Occupy, Youth

Parents of the Revolution follows a group of activist parents in the Occupy Wall Street movement who believe that it's their democratic duty to teach their kids to speak out against injustice. Are they heroes who are bringing up their kids with a civic conscience or agitators who are using their children as human shields? In late October, 2011, a month into Occupy Wall Street’s takeover of Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district, a new movement erupts amidst the excitement and turmoil with police––Parents of Occupy Wall Street. Started by Kirby Desmarais, a gutsy and resourceful 26-year-old mom and independent music manager, the group is meant to be an outlet for families to get more involved in Occupy Wall Street. In fact, Kirby organizes a “family sleepover” in Zuccotti Park, which draws over 500 kids and parents with sleeping bags in tow, ready for a night of protesting.

Bulgarian Universities in Chaos; Students Occupy 15 Campuses

November 9, 2013 Callum Mason, www.independent.co.uk/ Resist! Student Activism, Youth

Thousands of students in Bulgaria have brought universities to a standstill over the past two weeks, to demand the resignation of the country’s government, which they claim is corrupt. Students at 15 universities across the country are now occupying buildings and preventing teaching in protest at the centre-left coalition. The sudden rash of occupations have also sparked violent demonstrations, particularly in the capital, Sofia, from those supporting the protest, and from counter-campaigners. The first of the protests began when students at the elite Sofia University occupied Lecture Hall 272, the largest teaching room in the St. Kliment Ohridski building on 23 October. They have been blockading the building since then, bringing classes to a halt, in what they are calling an “indefinite” occupation. The original occupation quickly struck a nerve, and spiralled into universities across Bulgaria, in major cities including Plovdiv, Varna, Rousse and Bourgas.

Mobilization To Defend Student Leaders From Persecution

November 5, 2013 Staff, www.liberatecunyfront.com Resist! Education, Student Activism, Youth

On Monday October 28th as they were going to class, two student leaders at the City College of New York were approached by CUNY Public Safety officials and told that they would be suspended from campus for inciting a riot that never occurred. This comes after two weeks of successive protests following the closure of the Morales Shakur Community Center at City College. The Community Center provided books and fresh food at low prices to students and community members in the Harlem area, and was a center for political activity for two decades. Khalil Vasquez and Tafadar Sourov, both from the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee, were visible leaders of the protests and are the ones being targeted by the administration for suspension and possible expulsion. The Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee is calling for a massive mobilization on Friday November 8th at 9am, right before the hearing where Khalil and Tafadar will be sentenced. They believe that this marks an intensification in what they call the militarization of CUNY, and are mobilizing the community and student body to defend their university and its leaders.

12 Year Old Takes On NC Governor On Voting Rights

November 1, 2013 Eric Byler and Annabel Parks, www.StoryofAmerica.org Resist! Democracy, Video, Youth

12-year-old Madison Kimrey of Burlington founded NC Youth Rocks after the North Carolina legislature passed voting restriction laws targeting young people, women, minorities, and the poor. The law appears to be designed to create long lines at the polls — especially in more populous, urban areas — by cutting early voting and making the voting process more time consuming (this was the formula that created 8-hour waits in Florida for the 2012 election, as a FL election official testified to the House Elections Committee in March 2013). Also, the law requires voters to produce a photo ID, but student IDs are not accepted, even if issued by a state university.

Students Stand With Low Wage Workers

October 26, 2013 Staff, By, www.usas.org Resist! Education, Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs, Youth

We write to you on behalf of students from across the University of California who share a deep concern about the UC’s decision to implement drastic cuts on 8,000 of our lowest paid campus workers, as well as more than 12,000 UC patient care workers. We represent a wide variety of student organizations that benefit every day from the hard work of our custodians, gardeners, food service workers, facilities maintenance staff, patient care workers and teaching assistants. We know that this University would not exist without our campus workers, and are disappointed with the UC for unilaterally imposing cuts that hurt the lives and families of vital members of our community. The recent cuts amount to a 1.5% decrease in take home pay for workers making an average of $35,000 per year, and up to $124,000 in higher health costs for each worker in their lifetime. Even before these latest cuts, 99% of Service Workers were income eligible for some form of public assistance.

For Politicians, Millennials Prove Hard To Pin Down

September 27, 2013 Trisha Marczak, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Government, Politics, Youth

The emerging generation of millennials is shifting into a political power unlike those who have gone before, representing a new wave of Americans who no longer fit neatly into either major political party and are instead growing in their distrust for government and their desire for across-the-board accountability. Coming of age in the era of the NSA’s expanded surveillance operations, millennials are emerging as more distrustful of the government, presenting a difficult scenario for political parties aiming to capture the young vote. Americans under 30 have emerged as the most united in the belief in civil liberties protection. According to a Pew Research poll, 60 percent of young respondents claimed their largest government concern stemmed from its anti-terrorism policies that have infringed on civil liberties.

Nonviolent Direct Action Training for Students and Youth

July 28, 2013 Staff, www.facebook.com Educate! Youth

Activist Ann Meredith will lead an imagery focused workshop for students ages 13-18. Participants will explore examples of radical protest art from around the world, and discuss ways in which larger goals can be translated into powerful, concrete images. The hands on production of banners, zines, buttons, and props will also be addressed. Students will also learn how to stencil, wheat paste, and cheaply screen print t-shirts and posters. For high school aged students, there will also be a discussion of what direct action means in their communities, and a chance to discuss tactics with active youth organizers. For students 12 and under, there will be a host of activities, including radical drumming, dancing, crafts, and theatrical games with the Theater of the Oppressed.

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