As university and college students prepare to return to campus for the new school year, many find themselves in legal limbo for their participation in the anti-Genocide student encampments protesting…
Being in Washington, D.C., the heart of the beast, meant that establishing and maintaining our encampment was a formidable task. Situated just a 15-minute walk from the State Department and…
It began with Aaron Bushnell and a visceral response of mine: Why would anyone do such a thing? Bushnell was the 25-year-old active-duty airman who set himself ablaze on February…
The justifications used to defend police actions against Columbia University students advocating for Palestine evoke a disheartening sense of déjà vu. Instead of reflecting progress, they remind us that old…
At long last, on May 20, 2024, the University of California at Santa Barbara, in response to a 2021 California Public Records Act request, finally released copies of its 2016-2021 military…
The whole mayhem that is going on around us since last some years or say 2014, the one thing that critically grabs my attention is our ‘changing ‘norms for simple…
The Washington Post’s journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from society’s richest 1 percent pressured university administrators and political leaders to use police and other means to crush…
The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun by riot squads, state troopers, and federal agents; and even the…
“If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one.” --Joe Biden (Senate Speech, 1986) We are all Palestinians today. Especially in the wake of Israel's genocidal invasion of…
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of…
Now Israel has killed over 34,700 Palestinians in its war on Gaza during the last seven months and taken seize of Rafah, the point from where Palestinians can go only…
by Ellen Cantarow & Jennifer Loewenstein All of us—and we are legion across the world must keep our eyes on the genocide in Gaza, as well as on the vicious pogroms…
Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people — least inclined to deference, most…
Pro-Palestinian student protesters and others at the George Washington University tent encampment were arrested after failing to leave university property in an early morning coordinated police action. Around 03:30 after…
A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting. On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,”…
Major newspapers and newssites are slowly relegating pro-Palestinian campus protest news to less visibility. The encampments on campus are being cleared, one by one, and protest sites are being swarmed…
American universities have long been celebrated as bastions of free speech, fostering open discourse and intellectual exploration. However, recent events paint a concerning picture where these very institutions are becoming…
I suspect that many of our readers have either visited, participated in or in some way supported these wonderful student encampments to protest the genocide in Gaza. Over 2500 students…
Student protest leaders at George Washington University (GW) held an afternoon news conference on May 6 in the aftermath of an email letter sent out yesterday to the GW community…
Over the past week, police forces throughout the United States, working in coordination with the Biden administration, have beaten and arrested hundreds of students and faculty on university campuses for…
It is not only shocking to the world community but also against the self-professed ethos of Western liberalism. On Tuesday night when the people were fast asleep, the police stormed…
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and genocide. Today’s campus protests against Israel are building on that…
It is always good for any society or country when its younger people overcome various constraints and considerations of their own narrow interests to stand up for peace with justice,…
Mainstream journalists and politicians have engaged in a campaign of mass slander against U.S. college students protesting the Gaza genocide. Their “antisemitism” Big Lie echoes the racist hate campaigns of the past,…
Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus,…
“We are sick of seeing our country not just being complicit in genocide, but actively facilitating a genocide. And we know that we can’t trust politicians to liberate us, and…
To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It was a common form of execution in the ancient world. It is generally associated with Rome’s killing of…
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking…
The rage and protest against Israel’s campaign in Gaza, ongoing since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, has stirred student activity across a number of US university campuses and beyond. …
After attacking Dr. Jill Stein, St. Louis police charged her with assaulting them. Stein is the presumptive Presidential candidate of the Green Party. On April 27 she spoke at a…
We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with members of the Columbia University community demanding that the University divest from Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. We write…
Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year kaleidoscopic change burst forth…
Students across United States in campuses from Columbia to Emory to California are protesting in solidarity with Palestine. Protests expressing anguish Israeli genocide are now spilling over to university campuses…
Dear President Shafik, We are a group of scientists and academics based at universities across the world. We are writing to express our dismay at your decision to invite the…
Mass pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States are developing with great intensity. The protests, now in their second week, show no signs of abating despite the bloody…
Students at more than 40 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world have lit a fire under the Palestine solidarity movement by setting up encampments on…
The geriatric ideology of feudalism, patriarchy, nationalism, religious culture, market led consumerism, monetised society and capitalism continues to propagate the notion that contemporary youths and students are deviants, lazy, unproductive,…
University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza. PRINCETON, N.J. — Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate…
By all accounts, the US is a highly policed and regulated state. There are rules, limits and boundaries for everything, including social protests. How to picket on a sidewalk (no…
The campuses of many American universities have turned into arenas for escalating protests and demonstrations against the backdrop of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, causing widespread arrests of students…
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