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[edit] Nature of student activism versus youth activism
The position of a person as a "student" is inherently tied to their affiliation with a "school"; therefore it is logical to refer to change-oriented activities led by students as "student activism". This stands as a contrast to "youth activism", which simply embodies any action led by a particular group of people within a certain age range, generally under the age of 30. Historical evidence suggests that the title "student activism" was bestowed upon the works of students in schools, rather than simply youth in communities; this article should follow that guideline, rather than the popular misuse currently in fashion. - Freechild 23:29, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- Could you please elaborate on what changes you want to make to the article? From what you write, I'm not sure how far you want to go in limiting its scope. If your definition, "change-oriented activities led by students", could include activities engaging significant numbers of non-students, as long as students have played a leading role in the activities in question at some point during the chain of events, I think I agree with you. But I'm not sure if there are examples in the article that do not fit that definition.
- If you mean that the article should be limited to covering activism clearly dominated by students from start to finish, it would probably miss important and interesting patterns that deserve to be discussed: the fact that student demonstrations often are the igniting spark of wider protest. In many cases student-dominated groups have started chains of events that ultimately have seen much wider participation - in the form of protest organisations formed by students and thereafter commonly referred to as "student organisations" even at a point when this no longer have been strictly correct (e.g. Otpor and Pora), and general activities where students have been joined by other groups, sometimes even outnumbering the students (e.g. the events of May 1968 and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989). These processes, and the role of students in them, ought to be addressed in the article, in my opinion. Alarm 01:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Instrumental Figures
This list is pretty silly. It's really hard to come up with an accurate list of instrumental figures, as there are hundreds of minor leaders who would qualify just as much as the people on the list. There are no significantly famous student activists in the US (that I know of). It's also US-centric. I'm on the list too.
I deleted it.
[edit] Right-wing libertarians
"The situation escalated into a nation-wide insurrection during which a variety of groups, including communists, anarchists, and right-wing libertarian activists, used the tension to advocate their own causes."
References for right-wing libertarian activists? -altemark
