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I was figuring today would be a slow news day on the York University strike. I figured wrong.
- The Liberal party is rejecting calls for a tuition refund.
- CUPE is planning a court challenge to the upcoming back-to-work legislation.
- More than a thousand students have signed on to a class-action lawsuit against York over their handling of the strike.
January 28 Update: CUPE won’t be challenging the BTW law after all. Classes at York should resume on Monday.
That’s the slogan of the students who will be gathering at the Arizona state capitol tomorrow to protest a proposed forty percent budget cut for the state university system.
Organizers are expecting as many as two thousand students to participate in the rally, and are urging professors to bring their classes or excuse absences to boost attendance.
More details on the rally can be found at the Arizona Students Association website.
Democratic Party youth activist Kevin Bondelli has a blogpost up on the split in political organizing “between those of us that consider ourselves part of the youth movement, whose goal is to increase the role of young people in elections and governance, and campaign/government staff who happen to be young.”
His piece piggybacks on Michael Connery post we linked to last week, on how the the Obama Youth Inaugural Ball left young organizers sitting at the “kiddy table.”
studentactivism.net 
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