Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember the Orangeburg Massacre, which occurred on February 8, 1968 in South Carolina, when highway patrolmen opened fire on black student protesters from South Carolina State, who were trying to integrate a bowling alley. They killed 3 African American students and wounded 33. These were the first student demonstrators killed by the police in the 1960s. 2 days prior, students held a sit-in at the bowling alley. When the police arrested them, hundreds of students arrived from Claflin College and South Carolina State to protest the arrests. As tensions grew, the governor called out the National Guard and Highway Patrol to “keep the order.” 9 cops were charged with deprivation of rights under color of law, but all were acquitted. But one of the student protestors, Cleveland Sellers, was convicted of several riot charges. In 1960, students and others marched through Orangeberg to protest segregation. Police and firefighters attacked them. They arrested 400 and imprisoned them in outdoors in a cattle stockade.
As the disquiet over tweaks to the student loan system (by which most students in the UK finance their fee payments at university), and specifically the rising schedule of repayments grows, the Q. is whether Rachel Reeves is delivering a similar meltdown in young people's support for Labour that Nick Clegg's decision on student fees delivered for the LibDems?
The Gorton & Denton by-election may well be an indicator of the damage done to Labour's prospects among the und-25s!
The annual March of the Torches is a student tradition celebrated in Cuba on January 27, the eve of the birth of #JoséMartí, #Cuba’s national hero. Thousands gathered on the steps of the University of Havana, carrying handmade torches, calling for a rejection of #US#imperialism.
When university students sign up to the student loan process are they really properly informed consumers? indeed could they be, as the terms of the ongoing debt are changing (again) by fiat of Govt?
Might the student loan system actually be a case of mass miss-selling by the Govt., but if so, what could be done?
A growing campaign - Rethink Repayment - argues the rate of repayment should be reduced (at the very least).
Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.
Today in Labor History December 4, 1964: Police arrested over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, after they took over the administration building during the Free Speech Movement. They occupied the building in protest of the Regents’ decision to forbid protests on the college campus.
Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, is restrained by police as he walks to the platform at the University of California's Greek Theater in Berkeley on Dec. 7, 1964.
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#Nursing at #COP30 ? of course yes. #UBC instructor teaches a #UBC credit course exploring Planet Health, and how that relates to people's health. And she is an observer-delegate at COP30.