About 200 activists have protested outside the Crown Resort and Casino in Perth as Woodside Energy shareholders debated whether to re-elect its chairman and if they should approve a climate transition plan environmentalists say is insufficient. Flanked by police, they peacefully marched about 300 metres into the complex holding placards with anti-Woodside messaging on Wednesday. […]
Last month, Free Palestine supporters stormed the stage at London's International Energy Week Conference during a panel with BP representatives.
According to Pew Research Center, only 22% of Americans believe Hamas’ reasons for fighting Israel are in any way valid.
Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen and four other pro-democracy activists are set to appeal their convictions linked to a defunct fund that supported protesters during the unrest in 2019. The legal challenge was launched by Cardinal Zen, barrister Margaret Ng, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, scholar Hui Po-keung and singer-activist Denise Ho, who were trustees of […]
One hundred or more protesters gathered on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday to participate in an unruly anti-Israel demonstration. The rowdy protests invited hundreds of onlookers, some of whom joined in on the anti-Israel chants on the school's South Lawn. UT Austin is one of many American universities where anti-Israel protests have intensified over recent days, as the Israeli military's war against Hamas continues in the Middle East. The Austin Police Department...
AOC praises pro-Palestinian protesters causing chaos with encampments at Columbia and Yale and introduces Biden saying, "Listen to this lady." - Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez applauded pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday as she addressed President Joe Biden at an Earth Day event in Virginia. AOC and fellow progressives Senators Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey were tapped to open for an event where the president announced an expansion of the American Climate Corps, a green jobs...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opened at a White House Earth Day event. She applauded the 'leadership' of pro-Palestinian protesters on campuses. President Joe Biden said 'listen to that lady' then condemned antisemitism
Kristen Louelle Gaffney relocating to Tennessee with NFL husband Tyler and kids. Sports Illustrated cover star will not support Karen Bass' LA4LA campaign. She is fed up with paying tax dollars which do not ease homeless epidemic
The Innovate UK Fund has announced six winners to be awarded grant funding from the government totalling £1 million to jumpstart ‘AI in the music industry.’ Competition assessors agreed that AudioStrip would benefit and strengthen the UK music industry by saying “this is well planned, resourced, and researched innovation that can impact the business, market, […]
Pro-Palestinian protests grew Thursday at California colleges and universities, including a new encampment at UCLA and teach-in at UC Santa Barbara, a day after police in riot gear arrested 93 protesters at USC. Fallout over the Israel-Hamas war grew Thursday as USC announced that it would cancel its main stage commencement ceremony after more than a week of national controversy over its decision to pull a pro-Palestinian valedictorian's speaking slot from the May event that was expected to draw...
Emergency services have revealed the cause of a fire which caused traffic chaos on Sheffield’s ring road. Prince of Wales Road was closed between Sheffield Parkway and Darnall in both directions yesterday evening, while South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue crews dealt with what bus company officials had described as a police incident. The operator First had to divert its 18 and 18a services during the incident. A fire service spokesman said firefighters now believed the...
On today's show: Kate Hidalgo Bellows, staff reporter covering campus health and safety at The Chronicle, reports on how administrations at colleges here in New York and across the country are struggling to respond to ongoing, and growing protests over the Israel-Hamas War. Jane McAlevey, labor organizer, columnist for The Nation and the author of several books, including (with Abby Lawlor) Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023), reflects...