Student activism played an important, yet understudied, role in Congo's crisis of decolonisation.
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13 Facts About Student activism
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Student activism continues and women such as Aline Mukovi Neema, winner of 100 Women BBC award, continue to campaign for political change in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Student activism-dominated youth movements have played a central role in the "color revolutions" seen in post-communist societies in recent years.
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Student activism groups played a key role in Suharto's 1998 fall by initiating large demonstrations that gave voice to widespread popular discontent with the president in the aftermath of the May 1998 riots.
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Student activism groups were a key part of the political scene during this period.
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Student activism's has since written two books stressing the importance of girl's education not only in her home of Pakistan, but around the world.
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Until today, student activism continues for various causes such as for free education, corruption within the government, and extrajudicial killings.
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Student political activism has existed in U K since the 1880s with the formation of the student representative councils, precursors of union organisations designed to present students interests.
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Student activism protests erupted again in 2010 during the Premiership of David Cameron over the issue of tuition fees, higher education funding cuts and withdrawal of the Education Maintenance Allowance.
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Some of the first well documented, directed Student activism occurred on the campuses of black institutions like Fisk and Howard in the 1920s.
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Also notable were the Student activism Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Atlanta Student activism Movement, predominantly African American groups that fought against racism and for integration of public schools across the US.
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Notably, universities participated in the Disinvestment from South Africa movement; University of California, Berkeley, after student activism became the first institution to disinvest completely from companies implicated in and profiting from apartheid.
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Antiwar Student activism has increased leading to the creation of the Campus Antiwar Network and the refounding of SDS in 2006.
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