Nineteen students at Brown University were joined by dozens of supporters at a rally on the school’s main campus green on Monday, during their fourth day of a hunger strike meant to put pressure on the university to divest from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine.” The rally comes after Brown University’s […]
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19 Brown students are on a hunger strike for divestment
Nineteen students at Brown University say they’ve begun a hunger strike, in the hopes that the board that oversees the school will agree to bring the issue of divestment to a vote. The news comes amid Brown’s Corporation Board’s winter meetings, which end on Feb. 10. The students say they will not end their hunger strike […]
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RI Activists Join ICE Detainees Protesting Jail Conditions
Activist groups in Rhode Island have started a phone campaign in solidarity with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees protesting conditions in a Boston jail.