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Trump regime freezes $1.8 billion to Cornell and Northwestern universities Trump regime freezes funding for Cornell, Northwestern University
An official says the pause in funding includes grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture and defence....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 3:36am PDT
NLG Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil 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...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:26am PDT
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS Detention 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....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:32am PDT
Threats to Student Protest Are Antithetical to the Mission of Higher Education March 5, 2025 - AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement today....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2025 9:54am PST
UC AFSCME 3299 & CWA UPTE to Strike on Feb 26th & 27th 60,000 workers will be striking the UC system on February 26th & 27th 2025....
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2025 8:30pm PST
Nor Cal Carpenters Union to Stage Protest Thursday Feb. 20 at UC Santa Cruz Over Free Speech Nor Cal Carpenters Union to Stage Protest Thursday Feb. 20 at UC Santa Cruz Over Free Speech, Worker’s Death at Hands of Construction Company...
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2025 3:36pm PST
My Union CCSF AFT 2021 Leaders Reject a Resolution Calling for Equal Pay for Equal Work Union bureaucrats on the Executive Board at CCSF AFT 2121 in San Francisco voted to reject a resolution calling for equal pay for equal work. The union bureaucracy who spend their time supporting Democratic Party politicians have refused to launch any campaign against the exploitation of adjuncts who are used as cheap labor by not just CCSF but other community colleges, state colleges and UC. This would mean fighting the Democrats and the billionaires who really run California. They also re...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2025 11:25am PST
Trump's Executive Order Aims to Punish Protests of Israel's Genocide in Gaza Palestine Legal: Trump's Executive Order Aims to Punish Protests of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, Promotes Anti-Palestinian Discrimination...
Posted: Thu, Jan 30, 2025 1:59pm PST
New York University bans pro-Palestinian faculty and students The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in New York and New Jersey condemns the police-state crackdown at New York University (NYU) directed against protesters opposed to the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. We demand that the university’s bans on pro-Palestinian faculty and students be lifted immediately....
Posted: Sat, Dec 14, 2024 3:04am PST
Report a Hostile Campus CAIR has launched a site where students can report campuses targeting them for expressing anti-genocide views. No one should face retaliation for standing up for justice and human rights....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2024 10:21pm PST
Wartime economy v. public education: Harris promotes school-to-military industry pipeline No matter which of the two big-business candidates for US president takes office, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the frontal assault on the social right to high-quality public education will escalate....
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 8:00pm PDT
Rights Groups Demand End to 'Heavy-Handed' Crackdowns on Pro-Palestine Campus Protests The judge's decision is "a major win for anti-genocide protestors across the country," said the Council for Islamic American Relations (CAIR), which is representing plaintiffs in Texas.
"The court's ruling confirms what we already knew," said Gadeir Abbas, a national deputy litigation director at CAIR. "The government cannot make special rules insulating Israel from criticism, and pretending those rules are about antisemitism does not save them from constitutional scrutiny."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 5:37am PDT
Protest against removal of pro-Palestinian teacher shuts down Philly school board meeting Several dozen parents and students staged a protest at a Philadelphia School District board of education meeting Thursday in defense of a teacher who had recently been terminated for her outspoken views on the Israeli government’s genocide of the Palestinians. The protest temporarily shut down the board’s proceedings, forcing it to reconvene in a remote location....
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2024 6:38am PDT
Under the lying claim of combating antisemitism, Newsom further assaults protest rights Earlier this month, California governor and national Democratic Party standard bearer Gavin Newsom signed into law four bills further clamping down on the free speech rights of anti-genocide protesters....
Posted: Wed, Oct 23, 2024 4:20pm PDT
Universities Raze Jewish Students' Gaza Solidarity Sukkahs To honor the Sukkot holiday, students from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other Jewish-led organizations constructed Gaza solidarity sukkahs on campuses including Northwestern University; University of Chicago; Brown University; Columbia University; University of Washington; University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Yale University; University of North Carolina; University of California, Los Angeles; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rutgers University; University of Cal...
Posted: Wed, Oct 23, 2024 7:23am PDT
[Claremont Colleges] Students take over Carnegie Hall, rename it Refaat Alareer University Report on student solidarity action via Instagram....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2024 10:56pm PDT
Using Research to Uncover Campus Complicity in Israeli Genocide in Palestine Across the US, students organizing against Israel’s assault on Gaza have made essential use of power research, uncovering financial ties between the Pentagon and campus labs and mapping out connections between university trustees and the war machine....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2024 7:05pm PDT
Meet the First [Non-Palestinian] Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost....
Posted: Sat, Sep 28, 2024 5:52pm PDT
Legislators Should Vote No on SB1277 The parent of two young Jewish children urges legislators to vote no on SB1277, which legislates a biased, pro-Israel version of genocide education....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2024 4:59pm PDT
retaliation arson attack on construction site at university of kkkalifornia berkeley phase two of the #Escalate movement heats up at u.c. berkeley with a construction site set on fire in broad daylight. this was done in retaliation for u.c.pd's violent assaults on vulnerable student demonstrators and to punish the university of kkkalifornia system for supporting the genocidal zionist-Israel entity. this was an autonomous initiative in concert with the current WEEK OF ACTION currently underway: operation campus flood....
Posted: Sun, Jun 16, 2024 3:45pm PDT