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Labor Organizing October 9, 2014
What Lena Dunham Taught Us About Unpaid Labor—and What We Taught Ourselves
Millennial icon Lena Dunham’s relationship to unpaid labour is explored, contextualized and reframed by youth activists and media workers.
StudentNation and Isabelle Nastasia
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Activism October 25, 2013
CUNY Dismantles Community Center, Students Fight Back
On Sunday, October 20, NYPD officers and CUNY security marched into the main academic center at CUNY City College unannounced, put the campus on lockdown and seized files, documents, and personal property.
Shawn Carrie, Isabelle Nastasia and StudentNation
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Activism October 4, 2013
Ohio Students Fight Back Against ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws
The battle against Stand Your Ground has migrated to the Midwest and students are in the trenches.
Isabelle Nastasia and StudentNation
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Activism May 29, 2013
Student Organizations Under Assault
State legislatures across the US are proposing bills that serve to debilitate statewide student associations and other student advocacy organizations.
Isabelle Nastasia and StudentNation
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Activism April 23, 2013
Breaking Tradition, Cooper Union to Start Charging Tuition
As the school year draws to an end, activists fear that this tuition decision marks the end of free higher education in the United States.
Isabelle Nastasia and StudentNation
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Activism December 4, 2012
Students Occupying Cooper Union Insist on Founder’s Vision
Founder Peter Cooper's insistence that the institution should be as “free as air and water” is being challenged by an administration intent on starting to charge undergraduates tuition for the first time.
Isabelle Nastasia
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November 17, 2012
DoTheMath Calls for Climate Justice to be the Next Anti-Apartheid Movement
A report from the front-lines of the climate change movement.
Isabelle Nastasia
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Activism November 5, 2012
The Rise of 99Rise
A new youth group plans direct action to challenge the influence of money on politics.
Isabelle Nastasia
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Activism October 17, 2012
Global Student Leaders Join Forces in New York
How a “beautiful, noble, naïve movement" can be transformed into a "beautiful, noble, effective movement."
Isabelle Nastasia
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September 10, 2012
Building a Student Movement in the US
The critical importance of student unions.
Isabelle Nastasia and Biola Jeje