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Alaska Youth on the ‘Front Lines of the Climate Crisis’ Sue to Stop LNG Pipeline

Eight young people from Alaska are suing their state government, claiming a major new North Slope natural gas project violates their constitutional rights. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The plaintiffs — who range in age from 11 to 22 — allege…

NATO “Youth Summit” Tells Viewers to Get Ready for War

The recent NATO “Youth Summit,” even on double speed, is over an hour and a half on Youtube. I couldn’t watch it all, as it just made me feel old — so old that I can remember when people could feel…

PPFA Demands Punishment for Suspected Bangladeshis Involved in Bodo Girls’ Rape, Youth’s Murder

Guwahati: Expressing shock and dismay over the horrible Dudhnoi incident, where two teenage girls were gang-raped and a youth was killed by a group of hooligans, a nationalist forum in northeast India demands a stringent punishment for those criminals. Patriotic…

Choosing hope: at the crossroads of the future

We are at a turning point in human history, facing major existential crises. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine raises the risk of a nuclear weapon being used to a level not seen since the Cold War. And the climate…

McGill students will stay on university grounds until the administration respect students demand

While incessant Israeli bombardments began in Rahat in the Gaza Strip where nearly 450,000 Palestinians had to flee several areas shelled by Israel. McGill University students in Montreal are still mobilized and occupy the university grounds with several dozen tents.…

India, Mexico, Japan, UK, Australia, France, Canada, USA: pro-Palestine protests continue around the world

In the last two weeks, more than 160 actions and 125 camps in solidarity with Palestine have been registered in at least 17 countries. The common demand of the students is to divest from companies that support Israel and the…

United States, the violence of tin soldiers returns to universities

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming  We’re finally on our own  This summer I hear the drumming  Four dead in Ohio. “Nixon and the Tin Soldiers are coming …”: on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired from a great…

“This Is the Conscience of a Nation”: Columbia Faculty Back Students as Campus Movement Continues

In New York, police moved in on Fordham University protesters just hours after they set up their encampment at Fordham’s Lincoln Square campus. The Fordham raid came a day after New York police arrested nearly 300 protesters at Columbia University…

Columbia students occupy Hamilton Hall after school suspends students. New protest encampments all over the US

Students at Columbia University took over Hamilton Hall just after midnight after the school began suspending students who refused to leave the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which began almost two weeks ago. The hall was also the site of a historic…

Police Arrest 275+ Campus Protesters as Student Uprising for Gaza Shows No Sign of Slowing Down

Police across the United States made at least 275 arrests over the weekend as campus protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza continue to spread. In Boston, police detained about 100 people after students set up a Palestine solidarity encampment on…

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