StudentNation

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

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/22/13

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/22/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/22/13

This week: cruel conditions at immigrant detention centers, the Radical Hospitality movement and a profile of the last Jew in Afghanistan.

Nov 22, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

How Do We Stop Anti-LGBTQ Bullying?

How Do We Stop Anti-LGBTQ Bullying? How Do We Stop Anti-LGBTQ Bullying?

Message of support to LGBTQ youth are a beautiful sign of solidarity, but alone they are inadequate to deal with the depth and scale of the crisis at hand.

Nov 20, 2013 / StudentNation / Keegan O’Brien and StudentNation

‘Unmanned’ Offers a Chance to Debate Drones ‘Unmanned’ Offers a Chance to Debate Drones

New doc offers a clear-cut case that drones are not making us safer, and the filmmakers are offering free copies of the documentary to any students who want to stage screenings on ...

Nov 19, 2013 / StudentNation / Timothy Molina and StudentNation

Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines New Responses to Climate Change Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines New Responses to Climate Change

The climate movement often seems like it’s fighting “against something”--against indifference and political gridlock. But this is a struggle “for everything...

Nov 18, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and StudentNation

Inside the Bulgarian Student Occupation

Inside the Bulgarian Student Occupation Inside the Bulgarian Student Occupation

Fighting for their future in a poor country where corruption has marred development since the fall of the Soviet Union, students at Bulgaria's Sofia University have taken hold ...

Nov 15, 2013 / StudentNation / Max Rivlin-Nadler and StudentNation

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/15/13

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/15/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/15/13

This week: the media obsesses over female orgasms, states take action on minimum-wage laws and Syrian refugees in Bulgaria face death threats.

Nov 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Black Students Call Out UCLA for Lack of Diversity Black Students Call Out UCLA for Lack of Diversity

Sixty-five percent of UCLA’s male African-American population are college athletes.

Nov 13, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

As Christie and de Blasio Get Voted In, Students Walk Out

As Christie and de Blasio Get Voted In, Students Walk Out As Christie and de Blasio Get Voted In, Students Walk Out

Coast to coast, students demand an end to cuts, tests and racist policing.

Nov 12, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/8/13

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/8/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/8/13

This week: the selfish motives of FWD.us, the Koch brothers’ anti-choice agenda, and a mass-death sentence in Bangladesh. 

Nov 8, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

#OutWithStudentDebt Videos Help Shed the Stigma of Indebtedness #OutWithStudentDebt Videos Help Shed the Stigma of Indebtedness

Meet the three winners of the #OutWithStudentDebt Video Project.

Nov 7, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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