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ACLU of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) A student speaks out against the school-to-prison pipeline during an education rally at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. More

Jack Weinberg, a UC Berkeley student leader of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, sits in a police car after having been arrested for recruiting students to participate in civil rights demonstrations. “Never trust anyone over thirty” is said to have been coined by him after university officials More

Today’s student protestors at Berkeley have impressed Michael Nagler with their cross-generational solidarity: here students protest cutbacks on pensions for nonacademic university staff, as well as student fee increases, at a UC Regents meeting on November 17, 2010. More

Tom Pessah Members of Students for Justice in Palestine demonstrate against HR 35, a California state resolution that defines student-sponsored boycott, divestment, and sanction campaigns as categorically anti-Semitic. More

Creative Commons/Ben Chaney Thousands of faculty and students staged a walkout on September 24, 2009, to protest dramatic budget cuts, layoffs, and tuition hikes at the University of California, Berkeley. Until students go door-to-door and convince taxpayers that their education has higher More

Suspension Stories ( suspensionstories.com ) Harsh school discipline drives many students into juvenile and adult prisons. Students illustrated the school-to-prison pipeline at a Representing the Pipeline event in Chicago in July 2010. See suspensionstories.com . More

Creative Commons/Michael Fleshman How can we resist the neoliberal pressure to reorient our colleges and universities toward market-driven values rather than public values? Here, students at Cooper Union in New York City protest the imposition of student fees for the first time in the free More

Suspension Stories ( suspensionstories.com ) “School House Jail House” reads the text on this painting by a student at the Representing the Pipeline event. More

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) Fania E. Davis (at right) engages with students at Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth’s Castlemont Peacebuilding Academy, summer 2011. More

POOR Magazine ( poormagazine.org ) Classes on revolutionary journalism at the “PeopleSkool” in San Francisco give students the skills they need to create blogs and radio segments about social change and community reparations. More

Tikkun Work with Rabbi Michael Lerner on spiritual politics, his Torah commentary, and his next books! We invite college students, recent graduates, mid-career professionals, and retirees to join us in Berkeley, California. info : tikkun.org/interns . More

Andrew Larsen ( andrewlarsenphotography.com ) A peace treaty must begin by defining almost all of pre-1967 West Bank and Gaza as within Palestine’s borders. Such a change would transform the lives of Palestinians such as these students, whose school in Hebron is located in a militarized zone More

of Cleveland, Ohio, and student leaders to conduct interviews about racial fairness in the justice system. More

Joseph Hodali “The current crisis in public and higher education has made it alarmingly clear that educators, artists, intellectuals, and youth need a new political and pedagogical language,” Henry Giroux writes. Here, Berkeley students protest the appointment of University of California President More

The author says U.S. progressives should be rejoicing at the gains made by the Obama administration on health care, investment in green energy, financial reform, GLBT rights, student aid, women’s pay equity, and more. Here activists in Cortland, N.Y., thank their representative for voting to pass More

Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) Violence can proliferate, but love has an even stronger power to ripple outward. When school administrator Antoinette Tuff persuaded an armed twenty-year-old to put down his gun by expressing empathy for him, she didn’t just save the lives of her students—she More