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The New York Times and the BBC are reporting that leftist youth and student rioting in Greece is entering its third day.
The riots, sparked by the police killing of a 15-year-old in Athens on Saturday, have spread to other major cities, and multiple demonstrations are planned for Monday.
Protesters are using gasoline bombs and rocks against the police, and dozens of officers have been injured since Saturday.
In 1973 the military sent tanks onto the campus of Athens Polytechnic University to suppress a student revolt against the country’s ruling junta, killing at least 22 civilians. Since then, the police and army have been barred from Greece’s college campuses.
The protesters this week have used campuses as safe havens, retreating to them when pursued by police, and even throwing Molotov cocktails at officers from behind their gates.
Students and youth are co-ordinating their protests online and posting reports on events at indymedia.org. According to accounts at that site, at least three buildings at Athens Polytechnic are currently under occupation by protesters.
After the jump, a listing of Friday’s panel sessions at the Youth Movement Summit at Columbia Law School. A full schedule, with links to live streams, can be found here.
Columbia Law School is hosting an Alliance of Youth Movements Summit right now, with all sessions being broadcast live on the net. As the summit website puts it:
Panels will discuss a variety of practical topics, including How To Build Transnational Social Movements Using New Technology, How To Use New Mobile Technologies and How To Preserve Group Safety And Security.
Summit participants will also be honored at a red-carpet event with entertainment celebrities, business leaders, and civil society figures at the former home of MTV’s Total Request Live (“TRL”) overlooking Times Square.
Howcast will use the field manual for youth empowerment developed at the Summit as the cornerstone of a much larger online “hub,” where emerging youth organizations can access and share “how-to” guides and tips on how to use social-networking and other technologies to promote freedom and justice and counter violence, extremism and oppression. The hub will include instructional videos and text guides, links to related online resources and discussion forums for sharing experiences, ideas and advice.
The schedule for the summit is available here, with links to streaming video from every session.
An IT administrator at Amherst College has posted a Harper’s Index style list of facts about the incoming class. Some fascinating stuff there with relevance for student organizing.
The relationship of college students to the internet has been transformed in the last few years. In 2003, 33% of Amherst applicants applied online. This year, 89% did. Of 438 first-year students this fall, just 14 brought desktop computers with them, and only 5 have landline phone service. (That’s five students, not five percent.)
On the other hand, the class of 2012 Facebook group has 432 members.
Joseph Frederick, who was suspended from high school for two weeks in 2002 for displaying a sign reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus,” has settled his lawsuit against the school for $45,000.
Frederick displayed the sign while gathered with fellow students to watch the passing of the Olympic torch. The event took place during school hours but off school property, and his lawsuit reached the Supreme Court in 2007.
In a splintered 6-3 decision, the Court rejected the proposition that Frederick’s sign was protected by the First Amendment, but Frederick’s lawsuit continued in Alaska state court.
Under the terms of the settlement, Frederick’s suspension will be expunged from his school records, and the school district will host a forum on student speech and the constitution.
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