Tag: activism
Opinion: Humility is a virtue, unless you’re CBS
As a philosophy major, I spend a lot of time reading and talking about what it means to be a “good person.” The short...
Board of Trustees rejects SJP’s request to divest from Israel
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Finance, Planning and Operations Amos Himmelstein sent a campus-wide email Jan. 29 containing a statement from the...
Letter from a small, red church
As part of The Occidental’s COVID-19 coverage, we are running a series titled “Letters from” written by staff writers, editors and Occidental students. These...
Poet Yosimar Reyes shares stories of joy within the immigrant experience
Students and local residents packed the performance space in the Oxy Arts building on York Boulevard Feb. 20 to hear stories from the nationally-acclaimed...
Environmental activist Winona LaDuke shares a powerful message of hope
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences hosted environmental activist, author and politician Winona LaDuke Oct. 14. LaDuke, an economist and graduate of Harvard University,...
Letter to the editor: Highland Park is changing and so must...
Highland Park and the broader Northeast Los Angeles (NELA) area are in flux. Storefronts come and go, unfamiliar faces become a familiar fog and...
Then vs. now: A brief look at campus activism through time
Since Occidental's founding in 1887, students have raised attention to issues affecting the campus, the Los Angeles community and the world at large. Here are...
ASOC Listening Session, Direct Action Committee confront institutional history in wake...
Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) representatives led by ASOC President Jacques Lesure hosted the first meeting for the ASOC Special Committee for Direct...
“Art and Activism” hosts local artists panel and social justice organizations
Four artists of different disciplines, Deidra "Krucial" Cooper, Lynnée Denise, Kohshin Finley and Keith Wallace, spoke during Oxy's "Art and Activism" event in Bird Studio April 4. The...
In order to move forward, we need to look back
My junior year of high school, I played on an all-white varsity soccer team at a local inner-city school. Midway through our season, a...