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6 days ago | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques
After Columbia University fully capitulated to the Trump administration’s demands of disciplinary measures against pro-Palestine students and censorship against academic departments, the Trump administration set its sights on other institutions of higher education, one of these being Harvard University. On April 11, Trump officials sent Harvard a similar demand letter to the one Columbia received on March 13.
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6 days ago | 
savageminds.substack.com | Natalia Marques
Since Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by US immigration agents on March 8 and subsequent detention by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), a group of activists have held a series of demonstrations outside Lasalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana where he is being held. The latest rally took place on 15 April, where protesters called for the release of Khalil as well as University of Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi, who is also being held in Jena.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques
Since Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by US immigration agents on March 8 and subsequent detention by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), a group of activists have held a series of demonstrations outside Lasalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana where he is being held. The latest rally took place on April 15, where protesters called for the release of Khalil as well as University of Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi, who is also being held in Jena.
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1 week ago | 
savageminds.substack.com | Natalia Marques
On Friday 11 April, immigration judge Jamee Comans ruled in Louisiana that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques
On Friday, April 11, immigration judge Jamee Comans ruled in Louisiana that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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1 week ago | 
popularresistance.org | Natalia Marques
a day ago In recent years, we have seen Palestine activists protest Hillel groups on campus. Pro-Israel organizations and pundits often insist that protesting the largest Jewish student organization somehow makes the Palestine movement antisemitic, but Hillel is not exactly apolitical. In the mid-2000s, they embraced the slogan “Wherever we stand, we stand with Israel,” they sponsor the Birthright program, and they forbid campus Hillels from partnering with anti-Zionist groups.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques
Hundreds of organized workers, representing a variety of unions including the United Auto Workers (UAW), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the National Educational Association (NEA), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Communication Workers of America (CWA), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), among other...
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2 weeks ago | 
popularresistance.org | Natalia Marques
Above photo: Thousands rallied outside the US Capitol on April 5. Jason Bixon. Refusing To Be Silenced By Trump Administration Attacks.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques
Universities and students across the United States are reporting the sudden revocation of visas for dozens of international students. In California, Massachusetts, Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona, and other states, international students discovered that their visas were revoked without notice or clear explanation last week, in a nationwide operation that the Trump administration has provided few clear details on.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques
Thousands rallied in the heart of the US capital Washington, DC on April 5 to oppose Trump administration attacks on free speech and student activism, and demand an end to Israel’s relentless genocidal onslaught against Gaza.
