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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Hot Tools for Politically Progressive Students
I subscribe to The Nation. I read it online every morning and I read the print copy when it arrives every week. Founded on July 6, 1865 as an Abolitionist publication, it is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States.
The publisher and editor of The Nation is Katrina vanden Heuvel. Former editors include Victor Navasky, Norman Thomas (associate editor), Carey McWilliams, and Freda Kirchwey. Notable contributors to The Nation have included Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gore Vidal, Hunter S. Thompson, Langston Hughes, Ralph Nader, James Baldwin, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Singer, I.F. Stone, Leon Trotsky, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James K. Galbraith, John Steinbeck, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
The Nation offers some of the most advanced and effective tools for politically progressive students in the country. If you are a progressive student, or if you know people who are, please use the envelope icon at the bottom of this posting and forward the story to whomever you wish.
The lack of attention paid by young people to the news is a constant refrain on both the left and right. But, as Sam Graham-Felsen argues, there's a clear reason for this: the voices of young people are grossly underrepresented in the mass media today. The so-called Millennials-- roughly defined as those 28 and under--make up one-quarter of the population, yet are rarely found in the mainstream media.
Check out the StudentNation page daily to see what's on student's minds. The Nation highlights five new student articles each day in our student newsfeed. Today, they are featuring pieces from The Arizona Web Devil, The Brown Daily Herald, Youth Outlook, The Michigan Daily, and The Daily Reveille. Read them all. Then, click here to submit suggested articles. The only rule is that it has to be written by a student.
The Nation is also looking for student photos to publish. Click here for info on how to submit shots. They'll even send a free Nation shirt to the photographer of any photo they use.
Read regularly updated highlights from their content partners, Campus Progress and WireTap.
If you're a student activist, let them know if you'd like free copies of The Nation to distribute on campus by clicking here.
And let the Nation know what you think at our question of the week. This week they're talking about what provocative ways of demonstrating the student left can employ to bring its community together.
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