students for a democratic society

Human rights? An end to war? An end to environmental destruction? Members of Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Florida are hunger striking for all three...

SDSers have been working for a year now, fighting to get their University's endowment — their own tuition dollars — invested in an ethical way. From their press release:

I received this in an email from Sean Walsh of William & Mary College. Tensions are running high, and the entire campus is mobilizing against the University's reactionary and unaccountable Board. Analysis below.

Organizers have put up a website documenting the current controversy over forced-out College President Gene Nichol: http://www.wrengateblog.com/

Check it out. They've got photos and video, along with a running narrative chronicling the latest events.

My good friend Jasper is covering the events too, on Building Our Power.

More importantly, SDSers and other student organizers are being invited to William & Mary this Saturday to participate in this grassroots act of resistance, and to show the oligarchs on the Board of Visitors that the student voice is a force to be reckoned with. From the email: