{"id":19753,"date":"2018-03-23T16:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19753"},"modified":"2018-03-23T16:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:23:26","slug":"talking-about-student-activism-on-under-the-radar-with-callie-crossley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19753","title":{"rendered":"talking about student activism on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was on WGBH’s “Under the Radar” today with host Callie Crossley and an excellent student activist named Victoria Massey, who is a senior at Charlestown High School and a member of the\u00a0Hyde Square Task Force<\/a>\u00a0community organizing group. The segment is entitled “Is Student-Led Activism A Driving Force For Change In America?” It airs on Sunday but is officially available for listening and sharing now. Here it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And here’s how the conversation was framed:<\/p>\n

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Alexander Hamilton wrote his first political pamphlet as a student at King\u2019s College, now known as Columbia University. He was 17 years old. On February 1, 1960, The lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, were started by four college freshmen started the lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C. Three years later, the \u201cChildren\u2019s Crusade\u201d in Birmingham, Alabama, involved kids as young as 7 in peaceful protests against segregation. And\u00a0this weekend, a group of high school students who got the nation to say \u201cNever Again\u201d will lead\u00a0 thousands at the March For Our Lives.<\/p>\n

Student-led activism has always been a part of American culture. Could it be one of the country’s driving force for change?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was on WGBH’s “Under the Radar” today with host Callie Crossley and an excellent student activist named Victoria Massey, who is a senior at Charlestown High School and a member of the\u00a0Hyde Square Task Force\u00a0community organizing group. The segment is entitled “Is Student-Led Activism A Driving Force For Change In America?” It airs on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-election","category-audio-and-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19756,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions\/19756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}