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Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in protest encampments with a unified demand of their schools: Stop doing business with Israel — or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in GazaAs protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza are spreading throughout American campuses, one demand made by students across schools keeps coming up: divestment from Israel.Universities rely on endowments to fund things like research and scholarships, and those endowments are typically invested in companies and alternative asset classes, such as private equity and...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote to the […]
TEHRAN April 24. 2024 (Saba) - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani commented on the suppression of American student demonstrations in support of Palestine, stressing the need for the American government to guarantee freedom of expression and assembly for university students and professors, and to respect their demands and legal rights.
Some 60% of trade school students are not paid while on internships, according to research by ResearchNed and the CBS, which was commissioned by the cabinet. Some 75% of hbo college students are paid while on work experience programmes, as are 65% of university students. But only 41% of MBO college students get any form of compensation. MBO students who do get paid also earn less than college and university students. Much, however, depends on the sector they are working in. Some
Students rallied on the steps of City Hall, calling for broader access to journalism in city public schools. Student journalism opportunities at New York City’s public schools tend to be limited to whiter and more affluent schools – and a group of kids wants to change that. [ more › ]
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Student activists have successfully pushed Columbia to divest from several other areas in the past.
As anti-Israel protests have spread across many of the country’s most prestigious college campuses this week, several Republicans in Congress have sought to burnish their pro-Israel credentials by calling for the U.S. military to respond. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton exhorted President Joe Biden to send in National Guard units, while obliquely encouraging motorists to run over protestors. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley similarly demanded a militarized federal response “to protect Jewish Americans,”...
Students from Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties built custom-made Adirondack chairs and were judged on their craft and attention to detail.
Students at the American University of Cairo (AUC) staged demonstrations on 22 April urging the university administration to sever ties with corporations accused of supporting the Israeli occupation, a joint Instagram post by the Egyptian Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement and the Anthropology Sociology Egyptology Association (ASE) explains. The two companies in question are information and technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) and insurance company AXA, the post reveals. The...