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Awake the State starts a one-year goal of awaking voters listen

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Tags: Occupy Tampa, Occupy Wall Street, Awake the State, USF, SDS, Alex Sink

The 2012 elections are only twelve months away and a progressive-leaning group is beginning the process of getting voters informed and to the polls. About 100 advocates rallied last night in Tampa in one of 15 Awake the State demonstrations across Florida.

Fewer than 70,000 votes could have changed the course of last year's race for Florida governor. Supporters of Awake the State are hoping to avoid any more near misses by driving voter turnout. Vera Chapman v...

Students protest higher tuition at USF

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Tags: SDS, USF, Dustin Ponder, Melissa Marquez

Coming up next we'll talk with several members of the newly formed local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. The group is working toward establishing a student referendum on tuition increases at the University of South Florida. Our guests are: Carl Uhl and Marisol Marquez.

SDS protests against new tuition hikes at USF Tampa listen

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Tags: Tuition fee increases, University of South Florida, Students for a Democratic Society, USF, SDS

About 50 University of South Florida students voiced their discontent and unrest over tuition hikes during a march at the USF Tampa campus today.It was organized by Students for a Democratic Society, a national movement with over 100 chapters in the United States.

Tuition fee increases are nothing new, but students coming back to school this Fall semester were greeted by a bitter surprise: that is a 15 percent tuition hike. And that...