Anna Oakes

1 month ago | hellgatenyc.com | Anna Oakes

8:42 AM EDT on March 12, 2025 On Tuesday around noon, members of a coalition of dozens of Jewish student groups gathered on the northern steps of the Columbia University campus to protest the unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil by federal agents, and the university's complicity and lackluster response. The campus, which has been closed to the public since last year's student encampment, has been dotted with fences since Khalil's arrest on Saturday.

Dec 10, 2024 | mondoweiss.net | Claudia Gohn |Anna Oakes

Clara C. began working at Columbia University one month after the start of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023. She was hired in the Germanic Languages Department as a Department Assistant. Like many incoming members of the Columbia community, she had high hopes for her time at the university.

Oct 17, 2024 | grassrootsmagazinenyc.com | Anna Oakes

Ovcharkenko’s son, then his wife, moved to Brooklyn in 2001. Alone in Tashkent, Ovcharkenko followed his family to Brooklyn in 2010. But life in the United States was not easy. In Tashkent, Ovcharkenko could have expected a pension following his retirement. In the United States, he started from scratch. “If I had realized I would work until my last breath, I might have stayed [in Tashkent],” he said.

May 17, 2024 | thenation.com | Anna Oakes |Indy Scholtens |Emily Byrski |Angelica Ang

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May 1, 2024 | hellgatenyc.com | Anna Oakes

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