Tag: Cambridge

Protesters at MIT campus take to the streets, disrupt traffic in Cambridge

Protesters marched in the streets Wednesday afternoon, blocking off traffic in the downtown area. Cambridge Police closed off Massachusetts Avenue from Memorial Drive to Vassar Street around 4:30 p.m. as protesters gathered outside of MIT. The group mobilized about an hour later, traveling along Vassar Street towards Main Street, taking up the entire main road. […]

Oxford and Cambridge students set up Gaza protest camps

Students and staff at Oxford and Cambridge have set up camps on their university campuses to protest against the war in Gaza. The so-called ‘Liberated Zone’ encampments were created in the early hours of Monday in front of the Pitts Rivers Museum in Oxford and outside King’s College in Cambridge. The protesters are calling for […]

Students protesting against Gaza war disrupt Cambridge open days

Pro-Palestine demonstrators are disrupting open days at Cambridge as Britain’s leading Jewish student group calls on universities to do more to tackle “antisemitic hatred” on campuses. Activists are telling prospective undergraduates and their families they will be “complicit in Israel’s genocide” in Gaza if they apply to Trinity College, which is said to have invested […]

Cambridge fourth-grade teacher indicted on child rape charges, DA says

An elementary school teacher in Cambridge was indicted on several counts of child rape charges, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Jorge Alexis Bonilla was indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury on two counts of aggravated rape of a child and three counts of rape of a child by force in connection with […]