• Students dig in as universities push to end encampments

    Pro-Palestine university protesters are defying orders to disband encampments, with students at one institution ordered to remove belongings from a building and move on. Monday marks the sixth day students have occupied the Arts West building at the University of Melbourne in Parkville. More than 15,000 students across 474 classes have been affected and alternative […]

  • Australia news live: Melbourne university staff and students to meet over protest encampment

    Protest organisers say university has not yet given them formal orders to move on, which would open the door to Victoria police being called. Follow live updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastShorten and Dutton clash over reduced migrationEarlier this morning the NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, and the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, clashed over Dutton’s promise to reduce Australia’s migration intake in his budget reply speech last night.Well, Bill, a...

  • Australia news live: University of Queensland warns student protesters who chant ‘out, out, Israel out’ could face disciplinary action

    Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe NSW police minister, Yasmin Catley, was on ABC News Breakfast earlier to discuss the state’s four-day domestic violence blitz.She said it was the sixth operation in 18 months, with “thousands of arrests” in that time.[The operations] are scheduled about every quarter, so police have been doing this for quite some time. NSW police [utilise] the DV registry, where they accumulate information...

  • Local organizations receive emergency funding

    Washington County was recently awarded $40,473 of federal funding from FEMA through the national Emergency Food and Shelter Program.

  • Kidnapped Nigerian university students rescued

    Nigerian security forces have rescued students kidnapped from a university in northern Kogi state, along with other victims held by the abductors, the army and state government said on Sunday.

  • How Yale University Surveils Pro-Palestine Students

    Theia Chatelle Documents reveal a pattern of targeted monitoring: administrator presence at rallies, police surveillance of social media, and coordination between campus, local, and state police.

  • Encampment organizer prepared to 'escalate' protest at UWindsor

    Demonstrators behind a “Liberation Zone” at the University of Windsor say they will “escalate” their pro-Palestinian protest if the institution’s top brass refuse to talk. Although some UWindsor administrators met with encampment organizers on Friday, one of the protest’s organizers said the group was dissatisfied with the discussion. “We don’t believe that the university administration […]

  • CV-TEC Students Receive FAA Certification

    A milestone for 7 students at CV-TEC, now certified to work in the aerospace industry. The students completed training & received their F-A-A certification to paint aircraft. Morgan Knapton, an engineer with BETA Technologies, and one of the program’s lead instructors, teamed up with CV-TEC to teach students in the school’s collision repair class how to paint the electric aircraft that BETA Technologies will be manufacturing at its factory in Vermont. BETA Technologies is planning a...

  • Town Of Richmond Selectboard Notice Of Public Hearing

    The Richmond Selectboard shall hold a public hearing on Monday, June 3, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. to hear public comment on proposed amendments to the Municipal Park Ordinance. This hearing may be attended in person at 203 Bridge St. Richmond, VT or by phone or online via Zoom Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84611164424?pwd=OU1rZDY2UStLL2ZqV1Q0a0pKSUhJZz09 Meeting ID: 846 1116 4424 Passcode: 304382 Join by Phone: +1 929 205 6099 Copies of the proposed ordinances are available at the Town Clerk's...

  • Students turfed from second pro-Palestine encampment

    A second major university has moved to shut down a pro-Palestine encampment. Australian National University in Canberra told students to prepare to vacate the camp after a meeting was held with organisers on Wednesday. “The university has communicated its expectations… ANU expects participants to follow these reasonable directions,” a spokeswoman said. ACT’s National Tertiary Education […]

  • University pro-Palestine encampment ordered to disband

    A pro-Palestine encampment at a Victorian university has been ordered to disband immediately due to “unacceptable behaviour”. Deakin University deputy vice-chancellor Kerrie Parker ordered the “immediate dismantling and removal of the current encampment” at its Burwood campus, in an email to organisers on Monday evening. “Your ability to undertake protest, political discourse and debate on […]

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    Encampment at McMaster University now set up for over a week

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. It has been just over a week since pro-Palestinian protesters pitched their tents in front of the Burke Science Building at McMaster University. The school and the protesters won’t say much about what is being discussed in ongoing talks between the two sides, but protestors tell CHCH News that progress is being made. They say […]