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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Student Activists from Around the Nation Report Back on Occupy Wall Street Actions « Student Activism #OWS

Student Activists from Around the Nation Report Back on Occupy Wall Street Actions « Student Activism:

Student Activists from Around the Nation Report Back on Occupy Wall Street Actions

The Student Labor Action Project, a joint effort of the United States Student Association and Jobs With Justice, has posted a set of OWS reports from student activists at U Mass Amherst, George Washington University, the University of Oregon, the University of Central Florida, and Brandeis.

From the introduction by SLAP coordinator Chris Hicks:

“What the mainstream media has failed to understand is that what the youth, the workers, and the unemployed want is justice. This is a justice that has been denied to many of us in our lifetimes – an idea that we once heard of but have never known. The issues that so many of us fight for can all be traced back to the same small group of people: it’s the corporate lobbyists that have prevented any meaningful change to immigration laws; it has been the corporations that have scaled back workers rights; it has been the corporations that have drowned college graduates in debt. For the first time in my life, we have been able to