Activism

A Music Video Without Papers

A Music Video Without Papers A Music Video Without Papers

If living through the reality of immigrant raids and detention seems difficult, try depicting it with cameras rolling.

Apr 8, 2013 / Aura Bogado

What You Need to Know About the Indiana University Strike

What You Need to Know About the Indiana University Strike What You Need to Know About the Indiana University Strike

This week, students and staff will walk out of class and off the job in support of a comprehensive set of demands for worker rights and economic equity.

Apr 8, 2013 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky and StudentNation

This Week: For Media Democracy This Week: For Media Democracy

Some perspective on the concentration of the press in the power of a few and the dangers of media consolidation.

Apr 6, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Students Take a Stand for Housing Justice

Students Take a Stand for Housing Justice Students Take a Stand for Housing Justice

NYU students target their school's association with Chase, the leader in home foreclosures in New York.

Apr 5, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Ryan Devereaux: Just How Important Is New York’s Stop-and-Frisk Trial?

Ryan Devereaux: Just How Important Is New York’s Stop-and-Frisk Trial? Ryan Devereaux: Just How Important Is New York’s Stop-and-Frisk Trial?

For men of color in New York, getting stopped-and-frisked is a daily reality. Will the courts do anything to change it? 

Apr 5, 2013 / Press Room

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/5/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/5/2013)

This week's press yields a crude mixture of Arabic, Hebrew, Marxism, French colonialism, restorative justice and techno-disdain.

Apr 5, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

This Week in Poverty: Sequestration, Housing, Homelessness

This Week in Poverty: Sequestration, Housing, Homelessness This Week in Poverty: Sequestration, Housing, Homelessness

With sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.

Apr 5, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann

The Student Loan Fairness Act is Only Fair

The Student Loan Fairness Act is Only Fair The Student Loan Fairness Act is Only Fair

There's a way to offer meaningful relief to many of the more than 37 million Americans saddled with student loan debt while also kick-starting the economy.

Apr 4, 2013 / NationAction

Why the Climate Movement is Historically Unique

Why the Climate Movement is Historically Unique Why the Climate Movement is Historically Unique

Never before has an issue involved every single human being on this planet, and never before has the window for action been so short.

Apr 4, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and StudentNation

One Million Comments Against Keystone XL One Million Comments Against Keystone XL

The Keystone tar sands pipeline will create just a handful of jobs, won’t improve US energy security, and just isn’t worth the potential cost to our health and our clim...

Apr 3, 2013 / Peter Rothberg

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