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student activism
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#Hokkolorob
Read more: #HokkolorobHok Kolorob. Let there be noise. It was perhaps these two words of protest that eventually led to the arrest of two engineering students for allegedly molesting a fellow student at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University last month. Conjured up in a…
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‘Casseroles’
Read more: ‘Casseroles’‘Casseroles’protests, based on the tradition of ‘cazerolazo,’ consists of protesting by banging on pots and pans in the street. This took place in May of 2012 in Montreal and across Quebec, in response to the government’s proposed tuition increases and…
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Fake Eviction Notices
Read more: Fake Eviction NoticesOn the morning of April 24th, 2014, members of NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine signed into several NYU dorms and slipped eviction notices under all of the doors. The eviction notices were written to raise awareness about…
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Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate Protest
Read more: Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate ProtestSchool desks placed by parents, district graduates and activists block a street in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in a demonstration against student dropout rates Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in downtown Los Angeles. Protest organizers say…
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Flour Bluff students expand education through activism
Read more: Flour Bluff students expand education through activismCORPUS CHRISTI — Many Flour Bluff ISD students have developed an extracurricular activity that takes their education to the streets, to social media and toward a path of change: activism.Much of the students’ passion stems from the April 1 suicide of…