http://news.linktv.org Link TV News Videos (Filtered by topics: Student debt) en-us Fri, 25 May 2012 10:33:00 -0700 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-may-25-2012?start=1981 More than 400,000 filled the streets of Montreal as a protest over a 75 percent increase in tuition has grown into a full-blown political crisis. Three months of sustained protests and class boycotts have come to be known around the world as the "Maple Spring." Fri, 25 May 2012 10:33:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-may-25-2012 Egyptian presidential election, 2012, Egypt, Ahmed Shafiq, Mohamed Morsi, United States, Montreal, Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster, Student debt, Education in the United States, Islam in the United States More than 400,000 filled the streets of Montreal this week as a protest over a 75 percent increase in tuition has grown into a full-blown political crisis. After three months of sustained protests and class boycotts that have come to be known around the world as the "Maple Spring," the dispute exploded when the Quebec government passed an emergency law known as Bill 78, which suspends the current academic term, requires demonstrators to inform police of any protest route involving 50 or more people, and threatens student associations with fines of up to $125,000 if they disobey. The strike has received growing international attention as the standoff grows, striking a chord with young people across the globe amid growing discontent over austerity measures, bleak economies and crushing student debt. We're joined by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, spokesperson for CLASSE, the main coalition of student unions involved in the student strikes in Quebec; and Anna Kruzynski, assistant professor at the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University in Montreal. She has been involved in the student strike as a member of the group, "Professors Against the Hike." http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-may-2-2012?start=2969 On a surprise visit to Afghanistan, President Obama marked the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Osama bin Laden and announced the signing of a long-term strategic partnership. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security, and improved quality of life. Several major unions joined with immigrant rights activists and tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City for a massive rally that marched to Wall Street. And in the city’s Madison Square Park, hundreds of people attended a "Free University" hosted by Occupy Wall Street. Plus headlines, and more. Wed, 02 May 2012 11:22:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-may-2-2012 International Workers' Day, May Day, Occupy movement, Occupy Wall Street, New York City, United States, Anti-corporate activism, Protest, Occupy Seattle, Occupy Oakland In New York City's Madison Square Park, hundreds of people attended a "Free University" hosted by Occupy Wall Street, where professors gave free classes to May Day protesters. Activists said the event marked an alternative means of sharing knowledge outside the capitalist system. "This movement is all about building community and sharing and coming up with alternatives to the economic system that is so pervasive in our lives and in everything that we do," said Amin Husain, a key facilitator for the Occupy movement, who attended the event. "These are cracks in capitalism where we can actually give and take on our terms," he added. Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, a professor and co-founder of the prison abolitionist group Critical Resistance, brought her class from the City University of New York to the action. "May Day is a day in which we rise up and say, 'We should be free,' which means we should control the means of production so that we can have all the say possible in how we reproduce ourselves," said Gilmore. "Studying policing and studying capitalism and studying racism is a way toward figuring out how to change the future." [Transcript to come. Check back soon.] http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-25-2012?start=1891 Hundreds of supporters of former death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal marked his 58th birthday Tuesday with a protest outside the US Department Justice, calling for a federal probe into his case. As US student debt reaches $1 trillion, a coalition of groups plan to protest record-high college costs. Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks exclusively to Democracy Now! from prison on life after death row and his quest for freedom -- and talks to Danny Glover for the first time. Plus headlines, and more. Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:16:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-25-2012 Mumia Abu-Jamal, Occupy movement, US Department of Justice, Life imprisonment, Death row, Protest, State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy, Solitary confinement, Prison, Eric Holder Today marks what activists are calling 1-T Day: The day U.S. student debt reaches $1 trillion. A coalition of groups from Occupy Wall Street plan to gather on college campuses and communities around the country to protest record-high college costs, and call for an extension of low-interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford loans. In a bid to court the youth vote, President Obama weighed in on student debt on Tuesday with a speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "The vast majority of the $1 trillion worth of student debt is actually held by Wall Street banks," says Pamela Brown, a Ph.D. student who helped launch the "Occupy Student Debt Campaign" Pledge of Refusal. "Those banks actually securitized these loans, and they sell them off, and they make enormous profits from them," Brown says. We also speak with David Harvey, a professor and author whose most recent book is "Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution." "There has been this immense attempt by corporations and the wealthy and so on to pass the costs of education onto the people who are being educated," says Harvey. "They don't want to pay for training their own labor force. They want their labor force to train itself and then they'll use it."