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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.

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/12/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/12/13)

In the latest picks, activists organize around education, economist Richard Wolff tells it like it is and Farc and the Colombian government make progress towards peace. Who said no...

Apr 12, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Harvard Vice President Reluctantly Accepts Signatures for Fossil Fuel Divestment

Harvard Vice President Reluctantly Accepts Signatures for Fossil Fuel Divestment Harvard Vice President Reluctantly Accepts Signatures for Fossil Fuel Divestment

The Divest Harvard campaign achieved a small but not insignificant victory this morning.

Apr 12, 2013 / StudentNation / Alli Welton and StudentNation

IU on Strike

IU on Strike IU on Strike

Students, workers and faculty are striking today and tomorrow in protest of massive tuition hikes, wage freezes and lack of diversity at IU.

Apr 11, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Brown University Investment Committee Recommends Divestment from Coal

Brown University Investment Committee Recommends Divestment from Coal Brown University Investment Committee Recommends Divestment from Coal

The committee has recommended divestment only three times in its entire history.

Apr 10, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What is Student Power? What is Student Power?

Right now, Barnard Columbia Divest and 255 other college divestment campaigns across the country are building student power through work on one goal: destruction of the fossil fuel...

Apr 9, 2013 / StudentNation / Daniela Lapidous and StudentNation

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

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

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

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

Ban the Box in New Jersey Ban the Box in New Jersey

The passage of The Opportunity to Compete Act would make the employment process fairer for young people in the state, especially young people of color, while also expanding employm...

Apr 2, 2013 / StudentNation / Morgan Jerkins and StudentNation

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