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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 08:36 PM Nov 2015

#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 California’s 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 Pennsylvania’s 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 OP
K&R! darkangel218 Nov 2015 #1
parents facepalming DustyJoe Nov 2015 #2
that's what you got out of that? Skittles Nov 2015 #3
Blocked from group - TBF Nov 2015 #4

DustyJoe

(849 posts)
2. parents facepalming
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 09:27 PM
Nov 2015

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.

TBF

(34,368 posts)
4. Blocked from group -
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 02:31 PM
Nov 2015

no idea why this poster is on DU but certainly does not belong in this group.

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