Ending Student Debt
Sean Dennison
This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the new president needs to take definitive action toward eliminating student debt.
2008
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Juan Reynosa's Environmental Mission
Kristina Rizga
If you want cleaner air and water and less poverty, Juan Reynosa, a community organizer with New Mexico Youth Organized, thinks you should consider environmental justice work.
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Learning About Labor
Hugh Baran : Labor Organizing & Activism
This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the new President should restore workers' rights ASAP.
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Building for the Future
Supriya Pillai
An activist calls for engaging youth in political life beyond the election.
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You Voted. Now What?
Kristina Rizga
Barack Obama may be able to seize the moment and push a new kind of politics, but not unless he is pushed to do so. So here's a young voter's post-election guide, from the grassroots to the Hill.
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Building the Future
Bobby Allyn : Public Policy Groups
A report from the Roosevelt Institution student policy expo.
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Youth Protests Outshine Olympic Torch
Cora Currier : China
Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
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The Change We Wish to See
Grant Resick : History
Real change cannot come from the top down alone; it must rise up from the bottom as well.
2007
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Students for a Free Pakistan
Jayati Vora : Internet & New Media
Putting blogs, cellphones and text messages to work, Pakistani students around the world are rallying against Musharraf's martial law.
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Climate Change Power Shift
Anya Kamenetz : Environmental Activism
Thousands of students came together to infuse the largest citizen conference ever to address climate change with energy, enthusiasm and a new vision for the future.
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Reading Arendt in Caracas
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl : South America
A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?
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The Future of the Party?
Habiba Alcindor : Democratic Party
Did the recent College Democrats of New York State Convention augur a new day for the Democratic Party?
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Silencing New Voices
Eyal Press : Journalists & Journalism
What happens when a student magazine committed to fostering dialogue opens its pages to critical views on Israel?
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The New SDS
Christopher Phelps : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Can the new Students for a Democratic Society avoid the internal conflicts that plagued the original group?
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Obama's Impressive Youthroots
Barack Obama's youthful supporters are using Facebook and other social networking web tools to spark a movement that could make a real difference.
2006
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SNAP!
A unique student-run organization is making real strides mobilizing progressive voters for victory in the long haul.
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Rebels With a Cause
Gary Younge : Education Policy & Reform
A new generation of student activists is flexing its muscles, rolling back employment rules in France, demanding education reform in Chile and fighting for immigrant rights in the US.
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Divestment and Sudan
Sam Graham-Felsen : Higher Education
The growing campus campaign to force universities to divest from corporations doing business with the Sudanese government is having real impact.
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The New Face of the Campus Left
Sam Graham-Felsen : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Since the 1970s Republican conservatives have been the dominant political force on American campuses. But groups like Campus Progress, better groomed and better organized than their predecessors, are pushing back.
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UCLA's Dirty Thirty
Jon Wiener : Education Policy & Reform
Negative media coverage has succeeded in undermining support among prominent conservatives for a UCLA alumni group that paid students to target and expose left-leaning faculty.
2005
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Students Confront Sweatshops
Richard Appelbaum & Peter Dreier : Social & Economic Rights
With a new wave of activism against sweatshops sweeping college campuses, student interest in the morality of their clothing choices can set a standard for the rest of us.
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Protest and Pushback on Campus
Student protests against the presence of military recruiters on campus are on the rise. So are angry--sometimes violent--pushbacks from conservative students and campus police.
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The Young Chickenhawks
Clarisse Profilet : Conservatives & The American Right
Young Republican activists on campus love George W. Bush and zealously support the war. But are they willing to fight? Not really.
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Keep Talking
Asheesh Kapur Siddique : Princeton
A report on the origins of the Princeton filibuster protest.
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