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Yesterday was the day we’ve all been waiting for since that historic November day (and for most of you, for the past 8 years!). Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. While for many it was a welcome completion to an exciting and successful campaign season, we here at Campus Progress saw yesterday as the kick-off to a long, fierce four years of pushing for policies that make our world a better place. From bringing our troops home, to making birth control accessible to all, to making college affordable, to getting environmental toxins out of low income communities, to fighting for racial, gender, and LGBTQ equality, there is much work to be done. We will be doing all that we can – online, in Washington, in local communities, and on college campuses across the country – to hold President Obama and all of our elected officials accountable to the mandate that young people voted for – an equal, just, progressive society. Will you join us? Click here to tell us what you will be expecting from this administration. In the meantime, check out the issue updates below. - Tanya, Pedro, Tommaso, Erica and the Campus Progress Team Antiwar leaders and tons of progressive groups held an Inauguration Action Center in downtown DC yesterday, celebrating Bush's departure from the White House and welcoming President Obama. Tents were erected with tons of materials about participating organizations, giving inauguration attendees ideas about ways to stay involved post-election.... Read More On December 22nd, 2008, there was an unprecedented environmental occurrence in Tennessee which cleared the smokescreen of lies told by King Coal. Before this winter break, most people didn’t know that the byproduct of burning coal is toxic ash and mud deposited in large and precarious ponds. The levees of these ponds have the bad habit of breaking and flooding surrounding communities with toxic slurry contaminating crops, rivers and families. These spills have happened in the past, but never at the scale of the Christmas Tennessee spill.... Read More So far, the new year has brought very little comforting news about college affordability. States are continuing to divest from higher education in the face of tight budgets, which is leading to tuition hikes and enrollment caps. Student loan borrowers are having a more difficult time paying back their loans as they compete in an increasingly tough job market. Private colleges are also suffering because of the recession’s effect on their endowments and uncertainty about what enrollment will look like for the ’09-’10 school year.... Read More STUDENT PROFILE |
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