{"id":2948,"date":"2007-10-02T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T23:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/10\/jena-6-walkouts\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T23:56:22","slug":"jena-6-walkouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/10\/jena-6-walkouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jena 6 walkouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0ypcpm9l.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2009\/02\/0ypcpm9l.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"152\" \/><br \/>\nInside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/10\/02\/qt\">Jena 6 walkout<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students at campuses nationwide walked out of classes Monday as part of continuing protests on behalf of the Jena 6, a group of young African American high school students facing charges for attacking a white student after a series of incidents, including one involving the placement of a noose on a tree outside school, that black students say were ignored. In September, thousands of students traveled to Jena, La., for a massive protest. Among the campuses where students walked out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statepress.com\/issues\/2007\/10\/02\/news\/702047\">Arizona State University<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.daily49er.com\/media\/storage\/paper1042\/news\/2007\/10\/02\/News\/Students.Walk.Out.Over.Jena.6.Case-3004857.shtml\">California State University at Long Beach<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bupipedream.com\/pipeline_web\/display_article.php?id=5732\">State University of New York at Binghamton<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_15_5711901,00.html\">University of Colorado at Boulder<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071001\/NEWS01\/71001049\/1008\/NEWS01\">University of Louisville<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.dailycollegian.com\/media\/storage\/paper874\/news\/2007\/10\/02\/News\/Protesters.Rally.In.Amherst-3004788.shtml\">University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Jena 6 walkout Students at campuses nationwide walked out of classes Monday as part of continuing protests on behalf of the Jena 6, a group of young African American high school students facing charges for attacking a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/10\/jena-6-walkouts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2266,2273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protests","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}