Here is a short video produced by Maggie at League of Education Voters to introduce viewers to the collaborative LEV/OAG Schools 2 Prisons research project. An OAG zine based on the research is forthcoming, while LEV moves forward strongly with the campaign to Stop School Pushout. Enjoy!
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UW Student Activist Meeting
Event Title & Host UW Student Activist Meeting When? 3pm Saturday Dec 17th Where? Cafe Allegro, Upstairs! Why? To Unite the many struggles of UW students & the UW organizations they’ve created. Description There are a great number of groups and actions going on on campus, and hopefully we can enter next quarter with a [...]
Garfield Students Walkout
Just a few days ago the students of Garfield High School in Seattle walked out of class, to protest slashed school budgets and falling quality, and rising inequity. Get the whole story at the Capitol Hill Times
Apathy Is Over!
If you want it. Happy solstice! This morning, following on the heels of a student walkout at Garfield High School and the hours-long occupation of University Bridge on November 17th, students and workers commuting on University Bridge were greeted by a 100-foot banner off the I-5 bridge reading “Give A Damn #Occupy”. A communique claimed [...]
Sick of Sodexo rally
Event Title & Host Sick of Sodexo rally Website http://kickoutsodexo.org When? Tuesday, Nov 22, 2:30 Where? Quad at the University of Washington Why? KICK OUT SODEXO, global human rights abuser, FROM UW! Description The UW has a $3.4 million dollar contract with Sodexo, a corporation cited with international uman rights abuses like paying poverty wages, [...]
Where the Hell is the Pell?
Event Title & Host Where the Hell is the Pell? Website https://www.facebook.com/events/109220542526963/ When? Tuesday, November 22nd, 10am Where? Jackson Federal Building Why? Because you(th) deserve an accessible higher education system! Description The challenge in three points: 1.Pell grants that keep thousands of Washington state students in school are under attack by the federal supercommittee. 2. [...]
Occupy the Capitol, for Higher Education & for Our Environmental Future
Cuts don’t fix recessions. Washington is ending it’s first year in debt…ever! This is not the time to punish struggling Americans, it is the time to lift up our brothers and sisters and help all of us thrive together. The Governor had an opportunity to come up with creative and progressive solutions to our deficit [...]
ASUW Student senate debate on the support Occupy resolution
Event Title & Host ASUW Student senate debate on the support Occupy resolution Website http://senate.asuw.org/resources/vitro/index.php?a=legislation&i=632 When? Tuesday Nov 22, 5pm Where? Gowen 301 Why? No age restrictions Description ASUW senate passed a resolution last week in support of the occupy movement. The Board of Directors then sent it back to Senate despite 4 weeks of [...]
The Demographics of Occupy Wall Street
(Click for larger version) Last month, FastCompany published the above info graphic depicting the demographics of the Occupy movement. The data was pulled from 5,006 individual surveys administered on OccupyWallst.org, and the data, was shared exclusively with FastCompany (to among other things: drive traffic, which in turn drive conversions, which in turn drive profit.) While there are problems with the actual visualization [...]
