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The basic idea of divestment is simple: Stop investing in corporations or other entities that are doing harm. Almost every day this spring, students used their graduation ceremonies as a platform to demand their universities and colleges divest from genocide…

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.…

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…

“The students are absolutely right, and may be saving our humanity.” Veterans For Peace applauds the students who are protesting against the US/Israeli genocide in Palestine.  These courageous young students are doing the right thing at the right time. “The…

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…

On Saturday, April 27, a group of 200 students from McGill and Concordia Universities launched a campment at McGill University in Montreal. According to a student coalition organizer from Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill (SPHR) the encampment is held…

Here in New York, riot police moved in on a peaceful student protest encampment, arresting at least 108 people. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called the NYPD to clear the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the campus’s South Lawn, where Columbia and Barnard…

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) affirms its solidarity with Palestinian people in their ongoing fight against settler-colonialism, apartheid, occupation, and genocide.  For 75 years, Palestinians have been subject to extreme systemic violence due to the ongoing Zionist occupation through…

Speaking before MEP Sabrina Pignedoli, Prof. Maria Cristina Marchetti, Prof. Alessandro Guerra, journalist Riccardo Iacona and a packed hall of students, Julian Assange’s partner praised initiatives around the world on behalf of the co-founder of WikiLeaks. Tina Marinari di Amnesty…

Lessons at Mazì center will end in mid-May, but the organization will continue its advocacy work  in the country. A needs assessment is ongoing on mainland Greece, with the aim of a possible relocation of the educational project, if needed.…