Student Movements

Building the Future

Bobby Allyn : Public Policy Groups

A report from the Roosevelt Institution student policy expo.
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.
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

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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
Obama's Impressive Youthroots

Sam Graham-Felsen : Youth

Barack Obama's youthful supporters are using Facebook and other social networking web tools to spark a movement that could make a real difference.

SNAP!

Sam Graham-Felsen

A unique student-run organization is making real strides mobilizing progressive voters for victory in the long haul.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
Protest and Pushback on Campus

Ryan Grim : Peace Activism

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.
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.
Generation Next

Sam Graham-Felsen

A day at the Campus Progress National Student Conference.
Keep Talking

Asheesh Kapur Siddique : Princeton

A report on the origins of the Princeton filibuster protest.
Harvard Divests

Sam Graham-Felsen : Harvard

Students succeed in making the university pull out of a Chinese oil company funding slaughter in Sudan.
Coke: The New Nike

Michael Blanding : Coca-Cola

A growing student movement is taking the company to task for its record on human rights around the globe.
Everyday Struggle

Mark Hatch-Miller : Urban Issues

A talk with hip-hop historian Jeff Chang.

Are Students Red or Blue?

Sam Graham-Felsen : Youth

The war rages on to win hearts and minds on colleges campuses.
Now Hear This!

Hillary Frey : Presidential Election 2004

A once-sleepy population of artists and their fans has emerged as a loud and active proponent of political change.
'Deanie Babies' Grow Up

Anya Kamenetz : Presidential Election 2004

There may be an overlooked Dean legacy brewing.
Get This Party Started

Hillary Frey : Presidential Election 2004

Music for America hopes to stir things up by shining a spotlight on issues of specific interest to younger people.
Iran's Tainted Elections

Juan Cole : US Foreign Policy

Students Wrestle With War

Liza Featherstone
Young Activists Unite

Bojana Stoparic : Race, Ethnicity & Religion

The Youth Summit in Durban, South Africa, gives twentysomething activists their own platform before the start of the UN's racism conference.
The Student-Labor Union

Nicholas Woomer : Labor
Building to Win

Katrina vanden Heuvel : Labor

If the progressive movement is to oppose Bush's agenda, a new strategy is needed.
Harvard's Shame

Benjamin L. McKean : Wages & Hours

Harvard pays more than 1,000 workers poverty wages while sitting on an endowment of almost billion.
SDS's Other Wars

Jim Russell : Film
Economists vs. Students

Liza Featherstone & Doug Henwood : Sweatshops

Hot-Wiring High School

Liza Featherstone

The International Student Activism Alliance has been run by and for high school students since its founding in 1996. Read this report by Liza Featherstone, originally published in the June 21, 1999 issue of The Nation.