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The Student Movement Comes of Age (Movements, Corporate Responsibility, Student Movements, United Students Against Sweatshops, Society)

Activists have achieved power. Now they need to figure out how to use it.

Liza Featherstone
The New Student Movement (Movements, Global Justice Movement, Student Movements, Society)

This article is part of the Haywood Burns Community Activist Journalism series.

Liza Featherstone
Hip-Hop Politics on Campus (Movements, Student Movements, Music, Society)

"You have no idea how much love I got for this," says David Jamil Muhammad, referring to his role as a student organizer of "Hip-Hop Generation--Hip-Hop as a Movement." The conference was held Ap

Johnny Temple
Raising a Ruckus: Students Take the Bus to DC (Movements, Global Justice Movement, Student Movements, Society)

Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.

Jane Spencer
Hot-Wiring High School (Movements, Student Movements, Society)

The International Student Activism Alliance has been run by and for high school students since its founding in 1996. Read this report by Liza Featherstone, originally published in the June 21, 1999 issue of The Nation.

Liza Featherstone

Blogs

Yes, Harvard, the Climate Crisis Is an ‘Extraordinarily Rare Circumstance’
Wen Stephenson

Harvard tells students and alumni that it will only consider divestment in "extraordinarily rare circumstances." Well, let's see...

September 16, 2013
The Danger of White Student Unions
StudentNation

The complexities of racial tensions on campus are too many and the stakes too high to allow white student unions at universities.

September 11, 2013
This Week in Poverty: Taking On Sallie Mae and the Cost of Education
Greg Kaufmann

Student groups and their allies confronted Sallie Mae at its annual shareholders meeting yesterday. 

May 31, 2013
When Black Kids Want to Learn and the World Tells Them 'No'
Mychal Denzel Smith

Whether black children value education or not isn’t the issue. It’s more important to ask why they grow up in a world that tries to prevent them from learning.

May 28, 2013
Chilean Students Run For Congress
StudentNation

Several former Chilean student leaders are capitalizing on their high approval ratings to run for Congress and challenge Chile binomial voting system.

April 28, 2013
Whither a Russian Student Movement?
StudentNation

Recent outbursts of student activism are raising hopes for the emergence of a Russian student movement on the heels of the mass political protests of 2011–12.

February 22, 2013
NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration
StudentNation

The environmental activist and self-described “professional bummer-out-er" spoke at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall last night.

February 6, 2013
NYU Divest Calls On President Sexton To End Fossil Fuel Investments
StudentNation

The campus divestment movement has made its way to NYU, where students and faculty are pressuring the administration to cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry.

December 12, 2012
How to Strike Back: A 14N Dispatch From Madrid
StudentNation

The general strike that swept Spain on November 14 was a fusion of traditional union efforts and a new breed of radical protest entirely.

December 10, 2012
Doing the Math Better: A Talk With Christian Parenti
StudentNation

Author Christian Parenti, in conversation with NYU student Rebecca Nathanson, explains why fossil-fuel divestment campaigns—now gaining popularity on college campuses thanks to Bill McKibben—may be a costly distraction.

December 5, 2012
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