Protest
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Newyork
The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.
On Wednesday morning, on a corner across the street from Columbia University, a man dressed in black, a huge gold cross around his neck, brandished a sign that featured a bloodstained Israeli flag and the word “genocide” in capital letters. He was ...
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World
Why Gaza Protests on U.S. College Campuses Have Become So Contagious
Experts say the partisan political context in Washington is a driver behind the spread of protests at American universities even as overseas campuses have stayed relatively calm.
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US
Emory in Atlanta Is Latest University to Crack Down on Protests
More than 400 demonstrators across the country have been taken into police custody since arrests at Columbia University in New York set off a wave of student activism nationwide.
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US
Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid Pushback by Universities and Police
There were nearly two dozen new arrests, mostly in Texas, as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold as they have at Columbia University.
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Newyork
The Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned
At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with police officers — whose brutal role in the confrontation was later described by a federal commission as a “police riot” — hijacking the focus of the ...
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Newyork
I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is “4’33”,” which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for ...
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US
Columbia Offers Remote Classes for the Last Days of the Semester
Tensions have rippled out to other schools. Protesters were arrested at Yale and New York University. And new protest encampments popped up on several campuses.
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US
The Circus Trump Wanted Outside His Trial Hasn’t Arrived
With support from demonstrators in Lower Manhattan spotty so far, Donald Trump issued a call to “rally behind MAGA,” and suggested the poor turnout was a result of a plot against his supporters.
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Newyork
Scenes of Protests at Columbia, Yale, M.I.T. and N.Y.U.
Demonstrations and arrests spread across some of America’s most influential universities on Monday, as administrators struggled to defuse tensions on campuses over pro-Palestinian protests on Monday. Nearly 50 people were arrested at Yale University ...
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US
What We Know About the Protests at Columbia University
Demonstrations outside the school gates have added to the upheaval, with protesters who appear unconnected to the university targeting Jewish students.