Toward a More Perfect Student Unionism: Lessons From the Maple Spring | Education | AlterNet

Toward a More Perfect Student Unionism: Lessons From the Maple Spring | Education | AlterNet
Perspective from being a student these days in the U.S.

Juan Cole: Protest Planet

Juan Cole: Protest Planet
How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism
From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities. Whether in Egypt or the United States, young rebels are reacting to a single stunning worldwide development: the extreme concentration of wealth in a few hands thanks to neoliberal policies of deregulation and union busting.