Tag / protest
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It’s Not About Peabody: Why We’re Having the Wrong Discussion
BY KAITY SHEA CULLEN Beneath the archway of Brookings Hall, a group of student activists remain steadfastly put, no less deterred by administrative pressures than by St. Louis’s capricious spring weather. The students are bold in their demands: remove Peabody Energy CEO Greg Boyce from the university’s Board of Trustees, and have Chancellor Wrighton take…
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Why Wash. U. Students Walked Out of a Meeting with Their Chancellor
BY JULIA HO, EMILY ALVES, MEGAN ODENTHAL, JAMAL SADRUD-DIN, AND GEORGIA MCCANDLISH At 11am on Saturday morning, 5 student representatives from the sit-in against Peabody entered a conference room in Brookings Hall to meet with Chancellor Wrighton. Forty-five minutes later, we emerged from the meeting with an increased sense of resolve and passion to a…
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Unsettling the Seated
Student advocacy is a marvelous thing. Some of the most formative moments in American history have come from student protests, sit-ins, and demonstrations. These displays of passionate idealism are often inspiring, especially when their sights are pragmatically set on local or campus targets. The current Wash U student sit-in against Peabody Energy and its CEO…
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Why We’re Sitting in at Wash U (and Why We’re Not Leaving)
I’ve learned many things in my four years at Washington University in St. Louis–not all of them in the classroom. For example, before I became a student at Wash U, I had never heard of Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private sector coal corporation. In St. Louis, Peabody ingratiates itself to the local community by…
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The Magnificence of Bangladesh’s Shahbag Movement
BY SAAD ADNAN KHAN The non-violent Shahbag movement, a mass awakening of civil society initiated by the ‘Blogger and Online Activists Network,’ is significant for several reasons. The movement started as a vehement rejection of the International Crime Tribunal’s (ICT) verdict to condemn Abdul Quader Mollah, Assistant General Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami, to life in prison.…
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Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom from Religion
In many of the countries which have seen recent protests against the film “The Innocence of Muslims, ” their still-fresh Arab Spring revolutions were aided by new online forms of speech like Twitter and Facebook. Social media’s role in the Arab Spring is old news, but the events of the past two weeks show a…
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Guilt by Association
I’ve been closely following the ongoing wave of unrest against the now infamous American-made film insulting Islam, the Innocence of Muslims. The sheer lack of talent, any artistic value, and hilariously shitty production suggests to me that the video was conceived solely to incite anger among Muslims around the world. We know that freedom of…
