{"id":108313,"date":"2015-11-11T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/flc-students-to-march-for-free-tuition-wages\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T00:37:50","slug":"flc-students-to-march-for-free-tuition-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/flc-students-to-march-for-free-tuition-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"FLC students to march for free tuition, wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=927ab0d3-edb2-4227-a5d0-58652d584d92&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=927ab0d3-edb2-4227-a5d0-58652d584d92&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=927ab0d3-edb2-4227-a5d0-58652d584d92&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=927ab0d3-edb2-4227-a5d0-58652d584d92&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1131\" height=\"754\" alt=\"Students are organizing actions on college campuses across the nation on Thursday to launch a campaign for free public college.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Students are organizing actions on college campuses across the nation on Thursday to launch a campaign for free public college.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Prasit Rodphan\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elan Axelbank, an organizer at Northeastern University in Boston, says continued state budget cuts and rising tuition costs have created an education crisis. He says in the richest nation in the world, students shouldn\u2019t have to take on what he calls crippling debt to get a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo in order for you to get an education, you have to take out loans from these private industries, who are profiting off of the fact that we just want to get an education so we can contribute to society in the best way that we possibly can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The march at Fort Lewis College will begin at 4 p.m. at Whalen Gymnasium and proceed to Reed Library.<\/p>\n<p>Axelbank says, on average, this year\u2019s class of college graduates will have to pay back more than $35,000 in student loans.<\/p>\n<p>Axelbank admits a single day of protest won\u2019t magically win the group\u2019s three demands. He says students will need to plan for a sustained effort and make strategic partnerships with other movements such as Black Lives Matter, organized labor, and the national \u201cFight for Fifteen\u201d minimum-wage effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are organizing actions on college campuses across the nation on Thursday to launch a campaign for free public college.Prasit Rodphan\/iStockphoto Elan Axelbank, an organizer at Northeastern University in Boston, says continued state budget cuts and rising tuition costs have created an education crisis. He says in the richest nation in the world, students shouldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5794,5735],"tags":[3066],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-108313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-credit-and-debt"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108313"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=108313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}