Youth Activists Come Together to Build a Movement for Student Power

Sarah Jaffe @ AlterNet - I'm on a bus with about 50 student organizers as it pulls out of Union Square in New York and heads for the highway, for Columbus, Ohio and the National Student Power Convergence. I have a tiny zine of "pocket chants for your daily taking-of-the-street needs" in my hand, and someone's stuck a red square—the symbol of the Quebec student movement, adopted by US students for their own organizing—on the window above my head.

My fellow passengers, one by one, introduce themselves to the crowd by name, preferred gender pronoun, where they go to school, and four words to explain why they're on the bus. The answers range from "To build student power" through "Direct action gets goods" to "State smashing queer glitter."  Read more.