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Related: About this forum#MillionStudentMarch demands student debt cancellation and $15 minimum wage for all campus workers
An unprecedented wave of action is sweeping across 120 college campuses today. Participants in the nationwide Million Student March are uniting around three demands: tuition-free public colleges and universities, cancellation of $1.3 trillion in student debt, and a $15 an hour minimum wage for all campus workers. Here are some live updates from campuses across America participating in the historic first-ever national day of action for free college.
The Million Student March at the University of Californias Santa Barbara campus swelled to several hundred this afternoon. This video shows the size of the crowd as they gathered in front of Campbell Hall:
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Hundreds of students took over the Temple University campus in Philadelphia this afternoon. They were later joined by students from Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvanias Philadelphia campus for a march on city hall:
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At the University of Texas main campus in Austin, several hundred students walked out:
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Elsewhere in Texas, the Texas State University campus in San Marcos saw students channeling the South African student movement that recently succeeded in defeating a double-digit tuition hike scheduled to take effect the following academic year, chanting: Fees must fall!
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The Million Student March at the University of Californias Santa Barbara campus swelled to several hundred this afternoon. This video shows the size of the crowd as they gathered in front of Campbell Hall:
...
Hundreds of students took over the Temple University campus in Philadelphia this afternoon. They were later joined by students from Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvanias Philadelphia campus for a march on city hall:
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At the University of Texas main campus in Austin, several hundred students walked out:
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Elsewhere in Texas, the Texas State University campus in San Marcos saw students channeling the South African student movement that recently succeeded in defeating a double-digit tuition hike scheduled to take effect the following academic year, chanting: Fees must fall!
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more: http://usuncut.com/resistance/live-updates-students-take-over-us-campuses-demanding-free-college/
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#MillionStudentMarch demands student debt cancellation and $15 minimum wage for all campus workers (Original Post)
Cheese Sandwich
Nov 2015
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darkangel218
(13,985 posts)1. K&R!
DustyJoe
(849 posts)2. parents facepalming
Nothing says 'failure in raising' than your kids expecting everything handed to
them instead of earning it. Thank God all mine are raised and out of schooling.
Skittles
(158,604 posts)3. that's what you got out of that?
TBF
(34,179 posts)4. Blocked from group -
no idea why this poster is on DU but certainly does not belong in this group.