Subjects Archives: Protest

Ten years after one student’s bold action a month earlier inspired protests which led to the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heike Becker recounts this historical occasion by linking this as well as subsequent and earlier protests to broader conversations about decolonization and concerns about racism, marginalization and inequality.

The situation must be stated with absolute clarity: The Trump administration is moving systematically and deliberately to establish a dictatorship.

On March 18, Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate, had his university diploma revoked. The decision was made by a committee at Istanbul University, where İmamoğlu had graduated, with a majority vote. Under Turkish law, a university degree is required to run for president, so […]

The far-right Antigua Orden group led a xenophobic protest calling for the expulsion of Haitian migrants, echoing Trump-style anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Over the last several weeks, demonstrations have erupted across Indonesia.

The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.

Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the U.S. and Israeli arms industry.

Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.

Among the concessions agreed to by the university are a ban on face masks at protests and the hiring of 36 “special officers” with the power to remove or arrest students.

The term ‘zero distance’ became famous after it was used by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza to illustrate the strength and courage of Palestinian resistance in the face of Israeli tanks.

The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.

Columbia University issued suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations to students connected to the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall, as ICE agents reportedly arrested a second Palestinian Columbia student on Friday.

The success of ‘I’m Still Here’ at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.

You have to understand this notion of freedom—that to be free, you have to make someone else less free—to make sense of the idea that Donald Trump is a champion of “free speech.”

This past week, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University once again released the annual report of its Labor Action Tracker (LAT), which records all strikes and lockouts in the United States.

Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.

On Feb. 7, a hundred residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, drove out a dozen armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags.

JOHN NEWSHAM draws attention to the uncompromising path of U.S. singer/songwriter CONOR OBERST.

One million people mobilized in the City of Buenos Aires–according to the organizers–as a result of the fuse lit by the LGBT community.

The Bob Dylan biopic is finely acted and captures the aspects of the musician impressively, but not the full political power of the songs, finds Jonathan Maunders.