Mother Jones' 15th annual student activism roundup
Student Activism Firsts
News: A Mother Jones timeline
August 21, 2008
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Sit-in Building takeover Teach-in Draft-card burning Nationwide student strike Divestment from South Africa |
First daughter arrest Booze riot Political smart mob Netroots organizing Darfur divestment Congressperson discovers Facebook |
Axis of Upheaval An unscientific ranking of recent student activists
Schooled Just days after we posted our survey, readers jumped to the defense of today's student activists.
"Why all the comparison between the '60s and the '00s, and who is 'more effective' at 'activism'? Is that so easily quantifiable? Times have changed. Get off your high horse."
"To have survey takers prioritize human rights or the environment is absurd. This youth movement is beginning to see how all these issues—health, environment, human rights, etc—are all linked together."
"Where were the questions about student activists fighting against gentrification being committed by their own universities? That's a mixture of on/off campus not offered in the survey choices."
"Maybe we aren't as active as college students were in the '60s. Maybe universities aren't the bastions of progressivism and liberalism that they once were. But maybe that's because it's gotten incredibly, horribly expensive to go to college, and unlike our peers 50 years ago, we do not have any guarantee of a good job to look forward to upon graduation."
The New Hellraisers Full Results of Mother Jones' 2008 Student Activism Survey
Photos: Steve Dibblee/ISTOCKPHOTO, concealedcampus.com, Szasz-Fabian/ISTOCKPHOTO, Raffi Alexander/ISTOCKPHOTO, Fred R. Conrad/New York Times
