(KRON) — The president of Sonoma State University has been placed on administrative leave after striking a controversial agreement with campus protesters. On Tuesday, Sonoma State President Mike Lee sent out a campus-wide message agreeing to meet certain demands set forth by students protesting the war in Gaza. The set of terms Lee agreed to […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Student protesters at San Francisco State University say they’ve reached an agreement with the school’s president on the issue of Gaza and are beginning to dismantle their encampment. Student organizers tell KTVU that the talks are ongoing with the university president, but say the concessions are an important first step. Student organizers […]
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. […]
(KRON) — The encampment put up by pro-Palestine protesters at UC Berkeley will come down, Chancellor Carol Christ said in a letter on Tuesday that was acquired by KRON4. The encampment was sitting at the Savio Steps of Sproul Hall. UC Berkeley reached an agreement with the UCB Divest Coalition to take it down, a […]
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Protesters in the Pakistan-held part of Kashmir called off rallies over price hikes that have left four people dead after authorities agreed to lower prices of electricity and wheat. The local civil rights alliance, the Awami Action Committee, said it had called off a planned march in the city of Muzaffarabad, […]
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is prodding the Secret Service to keep protesters farther away from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, warning a conflict is likely unless the security perimeter is changed. “I am deeply concerned about reports that the security perimeter around the Republican Convention site in Milwaukee may be creating a likely — […]
STORY: :: Israeli protesters block an aid convoy heading to Gaza :: Tarqumiya checkpoint, West Bank :: May 13, 2024 :: Four protesters, including a minor, were arrested, according to lawyers representing them Videos circulated on social media showed protesters throwing supplies from the trucks on to the ground, with the contents of opened cartons […]
The student-led protests at Emory University in Atlanta have distinguished themselves from others occurring across the US in at least one way: protesters are seeking transparency about and divestment from Israel but also from a $109m police training center known as “Cop City”. A broad-based movement against the training center, now in its fourth year, […]
DENVER (KDVR) — For the first time since a pro-Palestine encampment went up at the University of Denver last week, protesters and school leaders met to talk about the group’s demands. “We went into that meeting really wanting to talk about disclosure, that’s really the first step of all of our demands,” said JoJo Carranza, […]
May 13 (Reuters) – Georgia’s police have begun pushing away demonstrators who staged an all-night rally at parliament in Tbilisi ahead of a lawmakers’ debate of a “foreign agents” bill that has sparked a political crisis, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Monday. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze vowed on Sunday to push ahead with […]
May 12 (UPI) — Hundreds of protesters shut down the Manhattan Bridge in New York City on Saturday to support Gaza as the NYPD struggles to accommodate demonstrations protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Kaz Daughtry, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of operations, said on social media that more than 100 protestors intentionally […]
(Please not strong language in paragraph 7) By Gabriella Borter, Joseph Ax and Andrew Hay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Weeks after attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Egyptian-American student Layla Sayed received a text message from a friend drawing her attention to a website dedicated to exposing people it says promote hatred of Jews and Israel. “I think […]