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kpete

(72,006 posts) Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:28 PM Feb 2013

8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance Student-Loan Debt.

8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Student-Loan Debt.

Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.

Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.

“No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”

Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their Schooling—Seriously.

The Normalization of Surveillance.

Television.

Fundamentalist Religion and Fundamentalist Consumerism.

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8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance Student-Loan Debt. (Original Post) kpete Feb 2013 OP

More Young Americans are fighting back today then anytime then I can remember Drale Feb 2013 #1

Not sure what you're going for here... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #2

Drale

(7,932 posts)

1. More Young Americans are fighting back today then anytime then I can remember

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:34 PM

Feb 2013

the difference is they are doing it in different ways. Rather than having mass protests in which they are going to be attacked the the Police, they are using petitions, the internet and working within the system to change things for the better.

Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)

2. Not sure what you're going for here...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:38 PM

Feb 2013

...but from the headline: unless the terms of the loan were changed after the student took out the loan; what is there to protest?

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