March 2009

Saul Alinsky famously wrote much of his first book, Reveille for Radicals, while in jail, and insisted that had he not been incarcerated it would never have been written.

For Student Power, established in January 2007, is a website and blog dedicated to the fight for student power on campus -- and in the rest of the world.

Students are the vast majority in all institutions of higher education -- and yet are treated as non-entities when decisions are made. Far from pining for a few token seats on academic and administrative committees, we work toward universities defined by participatory democracy: schools run from the bottom-up, not the top-down.