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First-person accounts from student activists, organizers and journalists reporting on youth-oriented movements for social justice, economic equality and tolerance.

NYU Program Makes Palestinians and Israelis Roommates NYU Program Makes Palestinians and Israelis Roommates

One young Palestinian woman explains the program that has brought eight students to NYU to share a bedroom with a student from the opposite territory, and spend twice a week in dia...

Jan 31, 2013 / StudentNation / Brett Chamberlin and StudentNation

Brooklyn College PoliSci Department Defends BDS Panel Brooklyn College PoliSci Department Defends BDS Panel

“On college campuses around the country and across the world, BDS is being discussed. Brooklyn College should be no different.”

Jan 30, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Locked Into a Climate Crisis

Locked Into a Climate Crisis Locked Into a Climate Crisis

We will continue to call for climate justice—because the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, and because we have no other choice.

Jan 28, 2013 / StudentNation / Alli Welton and StudentNation

Colby Students Call for Divestment Colby Students Call for Divestment

Colby, with its biomass plant and its pledge to be carbon neutral by 2015, is a leader in sustainability. C.A.R.E. believes that Colby should divest from fossil fuels as part of it...

Jan 28, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

The New Campus Bankers The New Campus Bankers

What will be the fate of public universities if they are allowed to be run like businesses, by businesspeople?

Jan 25, 2013 / StudentNation / Alexander F. Roehrkasse and StudentNation

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/25/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/25/2013)

This week: the realities of sex work, Western interventionism and Canada is really cold. 

Jan 25, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement

Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement

Divestment is engaging more students than any similar campaign in the past twenty years. Why is it so successful?

Jan 24, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and StudentNation

Syracuse Faculty Group to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Syracuse Faculty Group to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

A letter in Syracuse University's Daily Orange by Political Science professor Sarah Pralle details why she is leading a faculty group in support of student organizing pushing t...

Jan 23, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

First Generation Soviet-Jewry Descendants: Bad Jews? First Generation Soviet-Jewry Descendants: Bad Jews?

Reflections on identity by the founder of the Rutgers University Hillel Russian-Jewish Club.

Jan 22, 2013 / StudentNation / Jonathan Levin and StudentNation

Bill McKibben Webcast From Middlebury College Tonight Bill McKibben Webcast From Middlebury College Tonight

A debate over whether environmental and social concerns should influence investment policies of college and university endowments.

Jan 22, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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