Colombia’s largest cities Friday are the scene of protests against President Ivan Duque performed by students, teachers, and truck drivers.
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UCSC grad students are fighting to have their labor rights acknowledged. I strongly urge the president of the UC system to stop threatening them, especially immigrant students, for organizing. I stand with @payusmoreucsc
Marches underway in Athens, Thessaloniki to commemorate teen’s killing
(06.12.2019)
Leftist organizations and anti-establishment groups marched in central Athens on Friday evening to mark the 11th anniversary since the 2008 shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a former police officer.
114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless. These Two Let Us Into Their Lives.
Sherine’s heartbreak reflects that of parents who cared for the 34,000 students sleeping in New York’s homeless shelters last year — enough children to fill a small city.
Sandy stands on her tiptoes and squints across the East River as the N train pulls onto the Manhattan Bridge. She watches the skyline until the train dips underground.
More protests in Colombia as Duque makes changes to tax reform
Colombian unions and student groups will hold another protest on Wednesday in honor of a teenage demonstrator who died after being injured by a tear gas canister, as President Ivan Duque announced changes to his unpopular tax reform proposal.
Protesting JNU students deserve your support not condemnation, writes ex-SC judge Markandey Katju
At the same time, the Delhi Police’s lathi-charge on agitating students must be condemned, and action must be demanded against those who ordered it. There was certainly nothing wrong in students going to Parliament to vent their just grievances.
I express my full support to the students of JNU.
Hundreds march in India to demand ‚affordable education for all‘
Students at a leading university in New Delhi have been protesting against a planned increase in their housing fees. They say most students are poor and cannot afford higher prices. They also allege that the Indian government wants to privatise higher education and make it difficult for many to attend university.
Zehntausende gedenken Studentenaufstand in Griechenland
In Athen zogen heute nach Polizeischätzung mehr als 20.000 Menschen durch das Stadtzentrum.
Tight security in Athens before annual November 17 march
The November 17 demonstration commemorates the uprising at the Athens Polytechnic which set into motion a chain of events that toppled the US-backed military government – known in Greece as „the Junta“ – in 1974.
French student’s self-immolation provokes anti-poverty rallies
University students demonstrated against precarious living conditions in cities around France on Tuesday, four days after a 22-year-old student set himself on fire in apparent protest of policies of President Emmanuel Macron and his own financial troubles.
À l’instar de notre camarade, nous vous invitons à témoigner de la précarité étudiante sur #LaPrécaritéTue.
(09.11.2019)
Student sets himself on fire in France over struggle of living on £388 a month
(11. November 2019)
The 22-year-old man posted on social media about his financial difficulties just hours before he attempted to self-immolate in front of a university restaurant in Lyon on Saturday.
The man, who is a student at Lyon 2 University, said he could no longer carry on living on €450 (£388) a month.
Colombia: Police Suppress March Against Police Brutality
Students demonstrated against the anti-riot police that have been indiscriminately cracking down on university protests on-campus. They were met with more police repression.
Colombian Police Attack Students During Peaceful Campus Protest
Over 100 Colombian riot police stormed a university campus located outside Bogota during a peaceful protest, firing shots, tear gas and detaining serveral students.
Left-wing British University Took Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds from British Military for ‘Cultural Advice’
Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London have slammed the payments as “outrageous.”
At least £400,000 has passed between the military and the university since the end of 2016, according to freedom of information requests filed by student group Decolonising Our Minds.
Republicans have no problem giving over $1 trillion in tax breaks to the rich and massive corporations. But when it comes to canceling student debt or tuition-free college, we „can’t afford it.“ What hypocrisy!
Chilean Teachers Continue National Strike
According to data from the Ministry of Education, the strike, which began on June 3, has since kept some 600,000 students without classes.
Thousands of members of the Chilean Teachers‘ Association today rejected a proposal from the Government in response to their demands and decided to continue with the national strike that is now entering its fifth week.
Bernie Sanders Dem Debate: Education, Health Care For All
Around 100 professors from public and private universities across the U.S. endorsed Wednesday Sander’s proposal to cancel the nation’s student debt that has ratcheted up to US$1.6 trillion.
Chile: Nationwide Strike Brings Teachers, Mine-Workers Together
The Chilean teachers, who have been on strike for three weeks say they want Piñera to respond to their requests they made two years ago. Among these are back wage payments and more resources for public education.
Over 1 million students and teachers went on strike and flooded the streets all over Brazil to protest against Bolsonaro’s education cuts. #ForaBolsonaro
(16.05.2019)
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Pro-Brexit young people are chronically under-represented in the media, we seek to change that.
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China: Police DNA Database Threatens Privacy
(15.5.2017) The issue of DNA collection has received some press attention. In one case in Shandong province, police collected DNA from more than 5,000 male students in one college in October 2013. The students were given no explanation about why their information was taken, and many “did not understand nor felt comfortable about it.” When reached by journalists, the school said it was to cooperate with the police’s request to establish a database about migrant populations, but the police said it was to solve a number of theft cases on the campus.
REGISTER – Are you tired of pro-Remain bias at your university? Do you believe that democracy should be respected? If so, then why not sign up to become a Students For Brexit Coordinator at your university?
Students Protest Raytheon’s Presence at College Job Fair; Raytheon Employee Clueless of War in Yemen
While Raytheon quietly held a career fair at Northeastern University to recruit students to work for them, they were also met with some pushback.
Colombia: Students Mobilize to Protest Murder of Social Leaders
As part of a strike that began on Oct. 11, Colombian university students mobilize to reject violence against social leaders and rights defenders.
Macron’s top-down approach to fighting climate change serves as a cautionary tale
While world leaders gather in Katowice, Poland, for the COP24 climate summit, protesters in the streets of Paris have successfully forced French President Emmanuel Macron’s hand, undercutting his efforts to impose a carbon tax on French energy sales. Macron has made climate change and lowering greenhouse gases a central component of both his domestic and foreign policies, only to face dramatic failure at the hands of his „yellow vest“ countrymen.
You’d be forgiven for thinking this is some Middle East crackpot dictatorship. It’s not, it’s France, where the neoliberals’ wet dream, Macron, treats students like this. Ah, ‘moderate’ centrism.
French police detained peacefully protesting students and treated them like criminals #France #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests #MacronDemission
Why the left can’t lead the yellow vests
It is telling that when the protests were organised, they bypassed France’s organised left entirely, eschewing not just the political parties, but the trade unions, too. The reaction of some on the left suggests they were right to.
France protests: PM Philippe suspends fuel tax rises
Fuel tax rises which have led to weeks of violent protests in France have now been postponed for six months.
The move was announced in a televised address by PM Edouard Philippe, who said anyone would have „to be deaf or blind“ not to hear or see the anger.
Students blockade schools as French protests spread: About 100 schools under blockade while prime minister meets opposition leaders
High-school students – who have been protesting against changes to colleges and the university system – also seized on the mood of protest and stepped up their blockades.
About 100 high schools were fully or partially blockaded around the country, including in the southern city of Toulouse and in Créteil in the Paris area.
#GiletsJaunes #France The ambulance drivers supporting #YellowVests have blocked the lower house of the French parliament, the Assemblee Nationale, and the Place de la Concorde in #Paris
via @Ozkok_
French president Emmanuel Macron was booed as he visited rioting sites in Paris. It is estimated 75,000 people took part in demonstrations across the country over the president’s fuel tax increases. France is considering a state of emergency:
#GiletsJaunes in #Toulouse #France Students are joining the #YellowVests in many cities now. The police is shooting tear gas capsules right at them. Also reports of shots being fired. The students are shouting #MacronDemission on the streets.
Colombia: Thousands March in Defense Of Public Universities
Thousands of students, professors, university directors of 32 public universities in Colombia participated in the National March in Defense of Higher Education to demand higher budgets and transparency from the national government Wednesday.
Israeli forces attack university students rally north of Ramallah, students injured
WAFA correspondent said Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades toward the students who rallied in protest of Israel’s Nation-state Law and its planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin community, east of Jerusalem.
Anti-SAITM protest near Parliament tear gassed
Police have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a protest march conducted by university students near Parliament premises in Battaramulla a short while ago.
Chilean Students Protest Profiteering in Universities
IN PICTURES: Thousands of Chilean students took to the streets on Thursday in the first major student protests under recently inaugurated President Sebastian Piñera.
Mexico: Oscar Winners Join Call for Return of Three Missing Film Students
Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuaron and Emmanuel Lubezki have joined the call for the safe return of three film students, who have been missing since March 19.
In an open letter, sent to Jalisco’s governor Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval, the Academy Award-winning director Cuaron, cinematographer Lubezki and other prominent figures of Mexican cinema demanded the government find Javier Salomon Aceves, Daniel Diaz, and Marcos Avalos alive and “take legal action against those involved in the kidnapping and sentence them according to the law.”