StudentNation

StudentNation is a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism and is made possible through generous funding from the Puffin Foundation. StudentNation focuses on first-person accounts from student activists, organizers, and journalists and has helped launch the careers of contributors to The New York TimesVoxBusiness InsiderTeen Vogue, the Guardian, and more. If you’re a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected]

Students Call for Divestment From the Fossil Fuel Industry

Students Call for Divestment From the Fossil Fuel Industry Students Call for Divestment From the Fossil Fuel Industry

Students are the sleeping giant that rose to end apartheid and fight for many other just causes. Now more and more students are mobilizing against business as usual in the fossil f...

Nov 14, 2012 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and Alli Welton

Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile

Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile

In southern Chile a dramatic sixty-day hunger strike that left four young Mapuche prisoners near death ended in celebration.

Nov 9, 2012 / StudentNation / Brittany Peterson

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (11/9/2012) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (11/9/2012)

This week: A corruption trial in Brazil, problematic prostitution initiatives in California, and more. 

Nov 9, 2012 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Roosevelt Institute Announces New Pipeline Fellows Roosevelt Institute Announces New Pipeline Fellows

Congratulations to the Roosevelt Institute and kudos to its new Pipeline group of Fellows who will join the Roosevelt Institute's Four Freedoms Center beginning next month.

Nov 8, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation

Prop 30’s Possibilities Prop 30’s Possibilities

Although passage still leaves state funding levels far below what would be ideal, the multiyear agreement will increase state funding to the university by up to 7.5 percent each ye...

Nov 8, 2012 / StudentNation / Alex Berryhill

Youth Vote Decisive in Electing Obama Youth Vote Decisive in Electing Obama

Election 2012 should put forever to rest the old saw that young people are politically apathetic.

Nov 7, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation

Fourth-Grade Class Says ‘Vote for Somebody’ Fourth-Grade Class Says ‘Vote for Somebody’

A fourth-grade class creatively calls on their elders to vote.

Nov 5, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation

Racial Justice? Racial Justice?

The outcome in Fisher will have much to say about whether we can expect institutionally backed equality of education for future generations.

Nov 5, 2012 / StudentNation / Lucy McKeon

The Rise of 99Rise

The Rise of 99Rise The Rise of 99Rise

A new youth group plans direct action to challenge the influence of money on politics. 

Nov 5, 2012 / StudentNation / Isabelle Nastasia

What If You Had No Voice? What If You Had No Voice?

Exercising your right to vote may not get us where we want to go but it is nonetheless one of the most important ways that you, as a citizen, get to express your opinions in our de...

Nov 3, 2012 / StudentNation / Jason Mark

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