Monday was a day of action for university students on both coasts angered by the rising cost of tuition and the crackdowns on their recent protests. In California, students temporarily shut down a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents to protest a series of tuition hikes and the violent response to...
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Occupy Student Debt Students Urged to Refuse to Pay Off Loans As Schools Hike Tuition
As Unions Students Join Occupy Wall Street Are We Witnessing Growth of a New Movement
As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its twentieth day, New York City’s most powerful unions are set to march today from City Hall to the movement’s encampment in the Financial District. The demonstration will be bolstered by the walkout of potentially thousands of students at major public universities in New York City where...
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Alleging Captive Labor Foreign Students Walk Out of WorkStudy Program at Hershey Plant
We look at the story of 300 foreign students who came to the United States as part of a work-study program and found themselves engaged in what they refer to as captive labor at a Hershey’s packing plant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. The students — from Eastern Europe and Asia — went on strike two...
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