Author: Bex Heimbrock
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At No Kings rally, dueling visions of American history
Karen Quesnel worked in the Justice Department for 32 years. Today, she says, she doesn’t recognize her country. “That’s not the America I worked for,” said Quesnel, “I’m heartbroken when I see what’s going on in the news.” That’s how the 63-year-old West Virginian ended up in a frog costume at Washington, D.C.’s No Kings…
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Hundreds of UMD graduate workers rally for union, protest wages
In her first year as an international graduate worker, Judith Rakowski told people she was practicing intermittent fasting. In reality, she wasn’t able to afford more than a meal a day. The University of Maryland’s Graduate Labor Union (GLU) says Rakowski is far from the only graduate student suffering from food and housing insecurity. At…
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UMD students protest university career fair for ties to human rights violations
Dozens of students gathered to protest the inclusion of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and other defense contractors at the University of Maryland’s STEM and engineering career fair on Thursday. The protest, organized by UMD’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, was at the Engineering Fields across from The Hotel, where the career fair was…
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From ICE detention to job termination, activists Mahmoud Khalil and Karen Attiah speak out in D.C.
Activist Mahmoud Khalil and writer Karen Attiah addressed a crowd of over 100 people at Busboys and Poets — a chain restaurant with the goal of inspiring social change — in Washington D.C. on Thursday night. The two spoke in conversation ranging from Khalil’s time in ICE detention and Attiah’s recent termination from the Washington…
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Israel guilty of genocide, says UN Commission
Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza strip, an independent United Nations commission has found. The report, published Tuesday by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, found that “Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five possible genocidal acts defined by…
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UMD SJP to donate funds obtained in $100k settlement against UMD
After obtaining a “historic” settlement from the University of Maryland following a court ruling that found free speech violations, UMD’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter has begun planning a path forward. The SJP chapter will soon begin the process of obtaining the $100,000 sum owed by UMD in an agreement reached this summer, which…
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