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Thousands of workers and people of Crete have been protesting and stopping Israeli tourists and IDF soldiers from going to the ports for vacation. WorkWeek interviews a teacher who has been supporting these protests and the reasons for them....

The proposed California USCT Memorial within our CA State Capitol Park US Civil War Grove will add year round recognition of the 1,918 USCT enlistees from California during our U.S. Civil War....

Freedom is never free, the Monroe-Gooch Family legacy continues. 25th Anniversary of Folsom Juneteenth the renaissance of how a Modern Juneteenth began in Folsom remembered....

WASHINGTON (04-30) – Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, illegally arrested and jailed by masked ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents on April 14 during a naturalization interview in Vermont to finalize his U.S. citizenship, was released today by U.S. District Court judge Geoffrey W. Crawford who ruled that Mahdawi “did not pose a danger to the public and that he was not a flight risk.” The judge referenced cases from the 1950s and the specter of McCarthyism, saying t...

March 27, 2025 - Plainclothes immigration agents have detained another international student without warning, Turkish national and Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk. Surveillance video shows six masked agents approaching her on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts, near her home Tuesday evening. She was with friends, making her way to a meal to break her Ramadan fast....

Rumeysa Ozturk was within a few months of completing a PhD at Tufts University, when men in black abducted her because she co-authored this op-ed. Though ICE has been ordered by a court not to remove her from Boston, her whereabouts are currently unknown....

Academia, exemplified by Columbia University, has surrendered its proclaimed mission of intellectual independence and endeavor, and the academic pursuit of knowledge and social advancement....

FULL TITLE: National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression...

WASHINGTON (03-11) – One of the fundamental pillars of our free and democratic country is the right of every child to have a free public-school education. While this is not the case globally, it is a model of a modern progressive society in which today’s world demands literate, educated and well-informed citizens and workers. That very notion of a free education is truly one envied by parents and children around the world....

On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s announcement that it plans to deport students affiliated with pro-Palestine protests. The student, who is Palestinian, is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S....