{"id":48657,"date":"2015-11-19T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48657"},"modified":"2015-11-23T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:09:38","slug":"how-young-people-are-redefining-campus-activism-denouncing-rampant-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/11\/19\/how-young-people-are-redefining-campus-activism-denouncing-rampant-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"How Young People Are Redefining  Campus Activism, Denouncing Rampant Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/16\/kpfk-gm-leslie-radford-has-cut-uprisings-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">BANNED BROADCAST<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801502.us.archive.org\/13\/items\/uprising_2015_11_19\/2015_11_19_Luna_Olavarria_Gallegos.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801502.us.archive.org\/13\/items\/uprising_2015_11_19\/uprising_2015_11_19.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Luna Olavarria Gallegos<\/strong>, multimedia journalist originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and is currently a student at The New School in New York City. Previously, she has contributed to stopbeingfamous.com, National Radio Project and she is a senior editor of the national student newspaper readcontra.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Campus activism against racist policies has escalated and spread ever since the University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe stepped down last week. Wolfe resigned after black student group-led protests were strengthened by the solidarity of African American athletes. <\/p>\n<p>At Yale University, students of color led marches and made demands to president Peter Salovey. Among them was a call to, &#8220;implement immediate and lasting policies that will reduce the intolerable racism that students of color experience on campus every day.&#8221; Yale was followed by Ithaca College in New York, and Claremont College (where a Dean stepped down), and Occidental College in Southern California. <\/p>\n<p><em>*CLARIFICATION: Luna Olavarria Gallegos wants to clarify that while she is an alum of Ithaca College, having attended the college last school year, she is not a graduate of Ithaca College.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click here to read Gallegos&#8217; recent article about the story: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/11\/13\/campus-race-protests-are-about-systemic-racism-thats-never-gone-away\">http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/11\/13\/campus-race-protests-are-about-systemic-racism-thats-never-gone-away<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNED BROADCAST GUEST: Luna Olavarria Gallegos, multimedia journalist originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and is currently a student at The New School in New York City. Previously, she has contributed to stopbeingfamous.com, National Radio Project and she is a senior editor of the national student newspaper readcontra.com. Campus activism against racist policies has escalated and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48688,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48657\/revisions\/48688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}