Tag: protest
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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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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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“We stand in firm solidarity”: Boycott Israel Fest in photos
Enclosed in a circular frame of silver fences, students and faculty stood side-by-side in Hornbake Plaza for a counter-demonstration against the annual “Israel Fest” on May 6. The protest, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), called for the campus community to boycott the festival, referring to it as a celebration of a settler…
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