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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.

This Month, Students Massed Against Stop-and-Frisk, Won on Title IX and Scared Off Tom Corbett

This Month, Students Massed Against Stop-and-Frisk, Won on Title IX and Scared Off Tom Corbett This Month, Students Massed Against Stop-and-Frisk, Won on Title IX and Scared Off Tom Corbett

From Philadelphia to Sacramento, students fight to reclaim public education.

Jan 27, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

How Student Activists at Duke Transformed a $6 Billion Endowment

How Student Activists at Duke Transformed a $6 Billion Endowment How Student Activists at Duke Transformed a $6 Billion Endowment

The success of DukeOpen’s campaign to pressure the university’s board of trustees to reform guidelines on investment responsibility demonstrates the importance of under...

Jan 25, 2014 / StudentNation / Casey Williams, Charlie Molthrop, Jacob Tobia, and StudentNation

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/24/2014?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/24/2014? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/24/2014?

This week: valley fever, defending Snowden and Arafat's legacy.

Jan 25, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What the LGBT Movement Can Learn From Seattle Catholic High School Students

What the LGBT Movement Can Learn From Seattle Catholic High School Students What the LGBT Movement Can Learn From Seattle Catholic High School Students

The unapologetic character of Eastside Catholic High School students serves as a model to the LGBTQ movement for how to fight for the changes we urgently need and deserve.

Jan 23, 2014 / StudentNation / Keegan O’Brien and StudentNation

Rutgers Students Take Christie to Task

Rutgers Students Take Christie to Task Rutgers Students Take Christie to Task

The Daily Targum weighs in on Bridgegate.

Jan 23, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading This Week?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading This Week? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading This Week?

This week: Mexican vigilantes, winning the war on poverty and the problem with “do what you love.”

Jan 17, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What Really Caused the Change in Cornell’s Sexual Assault Policy?

What Really Caused the Change in Cornell’s Sexual Assault Policy? What Really Caused the Change in Cornell’s Sexual Assault Policy?

Cornell's decision to update its policy has been framed as the administration’s unprompted decision to do the right thing, but students and faculty have been calling for ...

Jan 14, 2014 / StudentNation / Anna-Lisa Castle and StudentNation

Fifteen Millennial Movements to Watch This Spring

Fifteen Millennial Movements to Watch This Spring Fifteen Millennial Movements to Watch This Spring

From the Deep South to Wisconsin, a sampling of student and youth organizing that’s taking off.

Jan 13, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

State Supreme Court Ruling Puts NYU 2031 In Jeopardy

State Supreme Court Ruling Puts NYU 2031 In Jeopardy State Supreme Court Ruling Puts NYU 2031 In Jeopardy

NYU’s expansion plans hit a snag after State Supreme Court Justice Donna Mills ruled that the city illegally approved construction within public parklands without the state&r...

Jan 9, 2014 / StudentNation / Connor Durkin and StudentNation

During Finals, Students Sat-In on Racism, Walked Out on Apartheid and Shut Down ICE

During Finals, Students Sat-In on Racism, Walked Out on Apartheid and Shut Down ICE During Finals, Students Sat-In on Racism, Walked Out on Apartheid and Shut Down ICE

From Minneapolis to Amherst, the struggle for free tuition, voting rights and racial justice rages on.  

Dec 20, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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