Protests Rock Campuses; Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey; NYS Budget and Climate; 1968 Protesters Reflect on Today's Demonstrations

WNYC— 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...

FOX 8 Cleveland—Today’s campus protests share parallels with Kent protests 54 years ago, activists say. The incident forever changed national tolerance for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, and 54 years later continues to be remembered in a solemn observation on the anniversary of that tragic day.

SiliconBeat—Today’s campus protests not as big or violent as last century. Yet, to some, there is a feeling that the situation is just one hair-trigger moment away from tragedy, says Mark Naison, who took part in the sometimes violent protests at Columbia in 1968.

Raw Story—Student protesters hunker down as more unrest rocks U.S. campuses. NEW YORK — Students who occupied a Columbia University building vowed Tuesday to fight back against efforts to evict them, as administrators struggled to contain pro-Palestinian protests that have launched dozens of campus demonstrations around the United States. The demonstrations — the most sweeping and prolonged unrest to rock U.S. college campuses since the Vietnam war protests of the 1960s and 70s — have led to several hundred arrests of students and other activists. Many of them have vowed...