The Debt Will Come Due
”[W]hen we consider the immense debt that we and our littermates in the first-world pigsty owe to the world’s oppressed majority, it is terror, not guilt, we should feel—one way or another, the debt will come due.”
Steven Raney
Be Like Joseph Vaughn, Even Though Furman Doesn’t Want You To
“ Furman doesn’t want its students to follow in Joseph Vaughn’s footsteps, no matter how many statues, plazas, awards, and days of remembrance it dedicates in an attempt to claim otherwise.”
Glory to the Martyrs, from Memphis to Maghazi
Ritual abuse of the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. is such a cherished tradition in America that we have an entire holiday set aside for it. Every year for decades now, public figures and institutions who stand against the living movement that gave us Dr. King—including many who
Night and Day
This Tuesday, Furman YDSA and five other organizations released a joint open letter to the Furman administration and Board of Trustees demanding concrete action in solidarity with Palestine against the ongoing Israeli genocide. The signatory organizations—YDSA, the Furman Middle East and North Africa club, Afrikiya, the Furman International Student
No excuses, no apologies! DSA Must Hold The Line
If the events of the past two weeks are anything to go by, we will have the good fortune of outliving the state of Israel—but no rabid dog dies without a fight. On the night of October 17th, the Israeli Air Force bombed a hospital in the Gaza Strip,
Why this Campaign Matters
With the draft of the “Democratize Our Campus - Win the Battle for Sustainability” petition approved by Furman YDSA’s general membership at our semester kickoff meeting, the ecological justice campaign our chapter voted to pursue over the summer is now in full swing. Over the next two months, we
Defend Affirmative Action, Demand A Better World
On Thursday, June 29th, the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action on the basis of race to be unconstitutional.The exact proscriptions of the ruling are narrow, applying mainly to the practice of curving standardized test scores, but the true consequence of SFFA v. Harvard is that it provides favorable terrain