Campus ProtestLauren Guliasi

Student Activism & Tactical PerformanceStudent Activism: Students and other members of an educational community coming together to demonstrate about an injustice in an effort to make a change in society or their community

Tactical Performance: use of performance techniques, tactics, and aesthetics in social movement campaigns to break away from common cliches and discourage violence from authorities

Bogad, Campus Protest, & Tactical Performance

Bogad, Campus Protest, & Tactical Performance

Gold Miner

Sit silently as the chancellor walked past

Thriller flash mob

Students protest UC tuition hikes while expensive construction is underway and regents give themselves pay raises… What did they

do?Satirical Groups

Clowns on college tour routes

Pepper Spray Cop

Pepper Spray Cop Art

Historic Campus Protests

UC Berkeley, 1985Apartheid

Harvard, 1969Civil Rights Movement

Kent State, 1970Civil Rights Movement

Recent Campus Protests

Harvard Medical School, 2014Black Lives Matter Movement

University of Michigan, 1999Sweatshop Labor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cuc5csK__w

Today’s Campus Protests

UCLA, Nov 8, 2016Donald Trump’s Election

University of Texas, Nov 9, 2016Donald Trump’s Election

Today’s Campus ProtestsUC Santa Barbara: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/11/09/mobs-of-tearful-angry-students-protesting-trump-victory-swarm-campuses/

Berkeley High School: https://www.facebook.com/hasmig.minassian.1/videos/10210937973463853/

http://kron4.com/2016/11/09/video-berkeley-high-school-students-walkout-in-opposition-of-president-trump/

QuestionsAre you familiar with any other campus protests?

Have you participated in any campus or non-campus protests?

Are protests on campuses more important than other protests? What is the difference?