CUNY Dismantles Community Center, Students Fight Back 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, document...
Oct 25, 2013 / StudentNation / Shawn Carrie, Isabelle Nastasia, and StudentNation
Privacy Advocates Turn Up the Heat on the ‘Business-as-Usual Brigade’ Privacy Advocates Turn Up the Heat on the ‘Business-as-Usual Brigade’
The Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to take up legislation to reform the NSA’s spying authority next week.
Oct 25, 2013 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Students Demand College-Logo Brands Join Fire and Safety Agreement Students Demand College-Logo Brands Join Fire and Safety Agreement
Three out of the four largest industrial disasters in the history of the garment industry have occurred in the past year alone.
Oct 24, 2013 / StudentNation / Garrett Shishido Strain and StudentNation
Join the Largest Privacy Protest Ever This Weekend Join the Largest Privacy Protest Ever This Weekend
The demand is for a full congressional investigation of America’s surveillance programs and accountability from public officials responsible for hiding this surveillance from...
Oct 23, 2013 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Questions for Dayton Hyde, Cowboy and Conservationist Questions for Dayton Hyde, Cowboy and Conservationist
In a new documentary, Running Wild, an 88-year-old rancher leads the charge against a proposed uranium mine, while the fate of wild horses hangs in the balance.
Oct 22, 2013 / Sasha Abramsky
Meet the Company That Makes Huge Profits From Locking Up Immigrants Meet the Company That Makes Huge Profits From Locking Up Immigrants
The SAFE Act would turn millions of undocumented immigrants into criminals overnight, a windfall for the private prison industry.
Oct 22, 2013 / Take Action / NationAction
Busting Food Myths for Two Generations Busting Food Myths for Two Generations
There may be no family in the history of the republic which has done more to promote culinary awareness, sustainability and food justice than the indefatigable Lappé clan.
Oct 21, 2013 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times
This year's winner of the Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom Medal is as adept detailing the mechanics of a mine-triggered landslide as he is at critiquing the dangerous combi...
Oct 19, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Brown Divest Coal: An Honest Vote on Divestment Brown Divest Coal: An Honest Vote on Divestment
The Brown Divest Coal Campaign is asking Brown University to divest from any holdings it has in America's fifteen largest coal companies and is hopeful for a “yes” ...
Oct 18, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
This Week in Poverty: The Immokalee Way This Week in Poverty: The Immokalee Way
The history of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers shows us just how much can be accomplished with savvy organizing at the grassroots and perseverance.
Oct 18, 2013 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann