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Enshrining the Rights of Nature in Washington’s Constitution
If they won’t get it done, then we’ll do it ourselves. Chaytan Inman is uninspired by politics. The computer science student was fed up hearing energy-blind and materials-blind promises made by big...
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Will Men Organize to End Gun Violence?
How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? How many deaths will it take ’til he knows that too many people have died? —Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind” It’s been six years since the...
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A Handshake and An Egg: Protesting For Palestine
As I held a banner and chanted along in Bristol Broadmead I felt a growing tightness in my chest. No, not another bout of Covid, thank Gaia, but a familiar, sinking feeling of knowing I have something...
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Elections On, University Off
On the evening of February 11, men in uniform, some wearing helmets and carrying shields, stood guard at each of the entrances to the university professors’ residence in Dakar. Their vans surrounded...
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Student-Led Climate Action Is Flourishing In DeSantis’s Florida
The University of Florida made history last month when its student senate became the first at a public university to pass a climate resolution in support of Green New Deal policies. The “Green New Deal...
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Senegal’s Elites Wanted to Trash Democracy. Voters Didn’t.
Last Thursday night, cheers bellowed across Senegal’s capital Dakar. A few blocks from where I stood in the city’s posh Plateau district, Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye left the prison they...
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Youth and Elders Together: Strategically Key?
In my first couple of years of progressive activism in the late 60’s, many of those I worked with who were also young took a pretty dismissive view of elder activists. And it wasn’t just elders. “Don’t...
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TikTok Exposed Youth to Genocide in Gaza — Is That Why Electeds Want It Banned?
On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act by an overwhelming 352 to 65 margin. If legislated, it would ban the...
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Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes Monday as campus protests over the war in Gaza enter a sixth day. The protests have swelled after the school administration called in the police to clear...
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Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at...
Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
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The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students
Friends, The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them. That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions, and values. And what...
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Columbia, NYU, The New School…MIT, Tufts, Emerson… Berkeley, Chicago, Chapel...
I went to MIT, class of 1969, so I was a Senior in 1968. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in the air. I think it is just getting revved up. I can feel it. I’ll bet...
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Fifty Years Ago This Spring, Millions of Students Struck to End the War in...
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer, I hear the drummin’ Four dead in O-hi-o . . .” —“Ohio,” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) President Richard Nixon prided...
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More Than 4 Dozen Unions Demand ‘End of Repression’ of Columbia Protests
More than four dozen labor unions across numerous industries on Tuesday signed a letter expressing solidarity with students who have been suspended and arrested in recent days for protesting at...
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I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About...
“Reprehensible and dangerous.” “Terrorist sympathizers.” “It’s not 1938 Berlin. It’s 2024, Columbia University, NYC.” The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have...
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South Korean High Court Hears First-Ever Youth Climate Case in Asia
One of South Korea’s two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia’s first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country’s government of failing to protect citizens from the effects of...
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Uprising
Dear Z Community, Things are HAPPENING! (Check out our resource list at the bottom of this message.) Unions have been kicking some major boss-butt up and down the South, including a historic victory...
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Born Free?
Ernest Mancoba was born east of Johannesburg in August 1904. He was the eldest son of a miner. He trained as a teacher and taught isiZulu to schoolchildren until he was introduced to woodcarving. He...
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College Administrators are Falling Into a Tried and True Trap Laid by the Tight
Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops to intervene in campus demonstrations. Hundreds of student and...
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Sanders: It Is Not Antisemitic to Oppose Israel’s Assault of Gaza
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks smearing thousands of U.S. students who are protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, emphasizing...
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Media Coverage of Campus Protests Focuses on Spectacle, Rather Than Substance
Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually the result of meticulous planning by advocacy groups...
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Students Demanding Divestment: You’re on the Right Side of History
The following are remarks I delivered on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at the 55-year reunion of the Stanford University antiwar movement, in which I participated. On April 3, 1969, an estimated 700 Stanford...
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Unfurling Love from the Window
On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,” dropping a large banner out the windows above the building’s entrance. This was a hall...
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Getting Old, Staying Young
I recently turned 77. That is old. I got many congratulatory messages. I found them a bit sad but not because I am undeniably well onto the downslope. Years go by, the slope changes. That’s the way...
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Weaponizing Antisemitism
All of us—and we are legion across the worldmust keep our eyes on the genocide in Gaza, as well as on the vicious pogroms underway in the West Bank. A recent statement by James Elder of UNICEF reports...
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Union Power Can Change Campus Protests Forever
Strikes are different from protests. Though protesters frequently say that they are making “demands,” it is more accurate to say they are making requests. Protests rely on persuasion. Their persuasion...
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Reflections on Student Activism
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed...
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Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s...
As student protests around the world call for their educational institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel, we speak to the Reverend Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological...
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Unions Support Student Protestors Against Campus Administrators and Police
As campus protests—and violent police repression—continue to roll across the country, some unions are getting involved. More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the...
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