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Students, Tomato Pickers Want it Their Way Last week the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based organization that represents immigrant farm workers in Florida, and their student partners, the Student Farmworker Alliance (SFA), presented Burger King with a petition asking for a penny per pound pay raise for Florida tomato pickers. |
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International Focus on Tibet and China Provokes Student Response As the 2008 Summer Olympics draw closer and the world’s attention focuses on China, tensions between China and Tibet are intensifying and activists on both sides of the conflict are taking action. |
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Arrests End Student Sit-ins on Three Campuses This week, students staged sit-ins at Appalachian State University, The University of Montana and Penn State, all demanding their university sign on the Designated Supplier Program (DSP). The sit-ins all ended with arrests, the largest at Penn State where 31 students were arrested. |
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Clothesline Project Gives Voice to Domestic Violence Victims In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Students across the country are participating in The Clothesline Project, an initiative to address the issue of domestic violence on campus. |
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Students Tackle Poverty through Fundraising Over the past two weekends, students across the country volunteered their time and raised money to fight hunger and homelessness on the local, national and international level. Coordinated through the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, the event has so far raised 70,000 dollars, included over 2000 volunteers, and was held on 100 campuses. |
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Food Not Bombs Feeds Day Laborers Students involved with Food Not Bombs at Rutgers University are reaching out to the local immigrant community by handing out free coffee, fruit, and muffins once a week to the day laborers who spend their mornings in a local park, waiting for work. |
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Students Launch Hunger Strike for Socially Responsible University Investments Members of the University of Florida’s Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) recently began a hunger strike demanding a meeting with university president Bernie Machen to discuss socially responsible investment plans for the university’s $1.2 billion endowment. |
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Fair Trade Farmers Offer “Delicious Peace” Perspective to Students Back to da Roots, a new student group at the University of San Francisco, recently hosted an event called The Faces of Fair Trade to educate the USF community about fair trade practices and to demonstrate the vital connection between consumers and farmers. |
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Gay Marriage Advocates Work Locally for State Campaign Vassar student organization ACT OUT is teaming up with social justice organization Soulforce Q for The Right to Marry campaign, a campaign across the state of New York to change marriage laws to include gay and lesbian marriage rights. |
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Over the past few years the American Red Cross has received flack on many college campuses and in some churches and communities for its policy of restricting gay men from donating blood. The Binghamton University Student Assembly is considering a resolution asking university officials to publicly acknowledge that the Red Cross’s guidelines violate the university’s non-discrimination policies. |
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Bryn Mawr’s One World student organization has asked their college president to sign the Worker Rights Consortium’s Designated Supplier Program. |
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Students are showing their support for Tibet on campus in response to recent protests across the world in observance of Tibetan National Uprising Day. |
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Students Spend Spring Break Examining Sweatshops Abroad Georgetown’s first student-taught class, Sweatshops at Home and Abroad, traveled to the Dominican Republic for spring break to spend time in the field with factory and agricultural workers. |
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Obama Inspires Race Conversations on Campus Responding to Senator Barack Obama's now famous speech on race in America, Tufts' Emerging Black Leaders (EBL) is looking to sponsor a series of follow-up discussions on race that they hope will unite students on campus. |
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Students Fighting Poverty ONE Day at a Time Three Susquehanna students are working to eliminate the problem of world poverty. Last fall the students became involved in the ONE campaign, a national advocacy organization, and since then they have been working to make people more aware of poverty around the world. |
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Harvard University made the decision on January 28th to honor the request of a group of six female Muslim students and institute all-female gym hours at one of the facilities on campus. |
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In honor of Human Rights Week, which begins today, members of Amnesty have organized a week-long series of discussions, movie screenings, and other events to raise awareness on campus. |
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This week Pepperdine University is holding their second annual Eve Project week to celebrate Women’s History Month. |
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It’s a bird….it’s a plane….it’s…Superqueer! Out of the brilliant mind of Bowling Green State University student Jennifer Dietsch comes the world’s first gender-neutral superhero: Superqueer, champion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. |
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University of Washington freshman Whitney Hahn recently organized a benefit concert called “A Red-Light to Slavery” to end human trafficking in the U.S. |
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Hundreds of protesters, many of them NYU students, gathered last Monday in Union Square for the 49th annual Tibetan National Uprising Day, a demonstration held each year to oppose China’s occupation of Tibet. |
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Student members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee (GSC) recently protested at a Burger King in downtown DC, greeting BK customers with cheers and fliers as they stopped in for their lunch breaks. |
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Tensions that might normally exist between Muslim and Jewish communities on campus have no place at Princeton University, where Jewish and Muslim student communities have forged a friendly and integrated relationship. |
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In order to change Stanford University's intolerance policy, five Stanford students from the group Leading through Education, Activism and Diversity (LEAD) showcased a photography project of recent events characterized as acts of intolerance at the university. |
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Students Speak Out Against Homophobia On February 4th and February 8th death threats were found scribbled on a gay student’s dorm room at Northern Arizona University--incidents that many feel bring to light the undercurrent of intolerance at the university and deficiencies in its protections for students (NAU is the only in-state university to not include the protection of gender identity and expression in its bylaws.) |
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Students Fight Silent Relationship Abuse Students at the University of Georgia have created an organization to advocate violence prevention and give a voice to the thirty-two million Americans who are silent sufferers of sexual or relational abuse. |
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This past weekend the University of Illinois hosted the 16th annual Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference, attracting over 1,500 students from schools across the Midwest. |
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UCLA’s Queer Alliance held a rally last week to speak out against hatred and homophobia in light of the recent deaths of several Southern California teenagers who were the victims of hate crimes. |
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UCLA's Student Activist Project brought students to sweatshops in downtown Los Angeles to see the conditions that exist in these students' backyards. |
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Students Take Action Around Campus Racism On February 2, the word “nigger” was found written on the room doors of two African-American students in a dorm on the Williams College campus. |
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The month of February is winding down but students at the University of Washington are still actively celebrating Black History Month. |
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Students for Peace and Global Justice at the University of Vermont have joined “Killer Coke,” the national campaign against Coca Cola and are working to remove Coca Cola products from the university campus. |
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Anti-Genocide Coalition Holds Conference to Educate This weekend the University of Texas will host a conference to educate high school and college students about genocide in Darfur, Sudan. |
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KissOut Promotes All-Inclusive Valentine’s Day 30 Penn State students participated in the fourth annual KissOut to draw campus attention to the hetero-normative nature of Valentine's day. |
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Anti-Sweatshop Rally Sparks Student Conflict with Stanford Members of Stanford University’s Sweat-Free Coalition rallied Wednesday after receiving reports of workers’ rights violations by New Era Cap, the company that makes Stanford hats, and becoming frustrated at the university’s inaction. |
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Students Protest Discriminatory Policies The Coalition for an Equitable Community (CFEC) at Florida State University, in collaboration with the Pride Student Union, held a demonstration to include protection for sexual orientation and gender identity in the university’s current nondiscrimination policy. |
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Clinton Urges Students Toward Global Service Bill Clinton took a break from the campaign trail this week to announce the launch of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU), a new extension of his non-profit group that promotes commitment to finding solutions to global and local problems. |
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The University of Miami’s chapter of Invisible Children, a club started by students last semester, is participating in Red Hand Day on Tuesday to raise global awareness of the struggle of child soldiers in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. |
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Arizona State University's Pride Alliance has been working with the school’s LGBTQ community since last semester planning an awareness week to raise consciousness and build support for the LGBTQ community. |
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This week, the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission and the Gender and Sexuality Commission at UC Davis will introduce Speak Up! 2008, a campaign to fight hate speech and hate crimes. |
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Colombian student association marches against terrorism The Colombian Student Association at Florida State University held a march against the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), or FARC, which they term a terrorist guerrilla group in Colombia. |
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Peace in the Middle East Month Colleges and Universities across the country are holding events to promote peace, tolerance, and awareness of the Middle East and Islam. |
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The Association of Social Entrepreneurs, a student group at Texas A&M University, held an educational seminar and dialogue on Fair Trade coffee. |
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Students Protest Anti-Immigration Laws Students and community members from the University of Utah demonstrated outside the Capitol Building on Tuesday in opposition to an anti-illegal immigration bills going through the Utah State Legislature –House Bill 241 which would repeal in-statue tuition for undocumented college students. |
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This week marked the beginning of Black History Month, an annual celebration and commemoration of African American history. |
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GLBT Leaders Oppose Constitutional Amendment Defining Marriage On Tuesday Indiana Senate passed a resolution to advance a constitutional amendment that would legally define marriage as between one man and one woman. |
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The Daily Iowan at Iowa State University recently interviewed Kenyan students about their country’s recent presidential election and the consequent sprees of violence and ethnic killings that it has caused. |
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Jewish, Muslim and Arab Students Bridge the Gap Student group leaders at the University of Pennsylvania have launched a collaborative initiative called Bridging the Gap, aimed at fostering friendships and mutual understanding between Jewish, Muslim, and Arab students. |
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Students Protest for Palestinians Over 200 Arizona State University students and community members gathered in downtown Tempe, holding signs and lighting candles, to protest what they see as inhumane treatment of Palestinians by Israel. |
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Activist Voices Fall on Deaf Administrative Ears Last spring Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) held a series of protests pressuring the university to divest from companies whose businesses have benefited the Sudanese regime in Darfur. |
