#MyGlobalStory: Alissa Casillas
Alissa Casillas, a student at Davis Senior High School in Davis, Calif., talks about her parents meeting at a post office in Mexico City and shares her family's thoughts on Donald Trump.
#MyGlobalStory: Denna Changizi
Denna Changizi, a student at Davis Senior High School in Davis, Calif., tells her six-word story about her family's journey from Iran to Italy and the U.S.
California students gather for Muslim Day at Capitol
By Meghan Bobrowsky GSS Correspondent SACRAMENTO — More than 600 students, activists and politicians gathered at the California state Capitol Building in Sacramento on Monday to talk about a worrisome increase in Islamophobia and lobby for legislation supporting Muslims nationwide. The…
VIDEO: “Living on the minimum” shows reality of living on food stamps
STOCKTON, Calif. — Student journalists at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School walked the talk of food stamps by creating two teams of student reporters to see how far the weekly average of $56.60 could stretch. The amount "seems like a…
FIRST PERSON: At Trump rally in Chicago, a student is silent no more
“There are more Chicagoans willing to stand against Trump than there are willing to stand with him,” I thought. “What if I went and protested?”
#ImmigrationNation: Dominic Pham
OAKLAND, Calif. — In this installment of Immigration Nation, student Dominic Pham talks about why he and his family left Ho Chi Minh City, and the family he had to leave behind. After arriving in the U.S., "I needed to change my…
#ImmigrationNation: Ahmed Salim
OAKLAND, Calif. — In this installment of Immigration Nation, student Ahmed Salim talks about being born in Vienna, living in Amsterdam, and finding his father in Oakland. "The worst thing in life is not to be settled in one place," says Salim,…
Green School of Bali performance targets conflict palm oil, forest fires
Le Bourget, PARIS — Students from Green School in Bali, Indonesia, staged a flash mob performance to highlight the fires burning in Borneo, which have resulted from slash-and-burn land clearing techniques by palm oil producers. Indonesia has the world's largest flora and…
Students express hopes for peace in wake of Paris terror attacks
As the world gathers for the COP21 climate change conference in France, students at the American School of Paris gathered on campus to express hopes for peace in the wake of terror attacks that hit their city on Nov. 13.…
Earth Guardians rap on climate change at COY
Video, tweet and photo by Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — Earth Guardians is a self-described "tribe" of artists, activists and musicians advocating for environmental sustainability and climate change action. Guardians Jasmina Sikora and Jaiia Cerff gave an hour-long rap concert…