#student-protests

#student-protests

Members of the American Association of University Professors, the affiliated American Federation of Teachers and student groups are planning protests in more than 50 cities Friday against "the Trump administration's broad assault" on higher ed, the AAUP announced in a news release. The AAUP said demonstrators will urge institutions to continue rejecting Trump's " Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education " and instead "commit to the freedom to teach, learn, research, and speak out without government coercion or censorship."

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the Serbian city of Novi Sad to mark the first anniversary of a railway station disaster. Mourners placed flowers and candles along temporary fencing near the damaged station entrance on Saturday, where 16 people died when the canopy collapsed on November 1, 2024. I feel great pain and sadness, Svetlana, a 45-year-old woman, told the AFP news agency, capturing the sombre mood at the memorial gathering.

The National Students' Union organized Thursday's protests under the slogan "stop the genocide against the Palestinian people." Demonstrations, which took part in at least 39 cities and towns, varied in size from small groups to thousands who turned out in Barcelona and the capital Madrid, where students held banners with messages like "Stop Everything to Stop the Genocide," "All Eyes on the Global Sumud Flotilla," and "Free Palestine!"

Now, the government is seeking to convince a New York appeals court that the tool, a habeas corpus petition, should be generally off-limits in such cases, arguing that it runs afoul of American immigration law. If the U.S. argument is successful, noncitizens detained by the administration and placed in immigration proceedings could lose one of the most dependable methods of challenging their detention.

Protests erupted in East Timor's capital Dili after a budget item, approved last year, assigned $4.2m to buy Toyota Prado SUVs for each of East Timor's 65 members of parliament, at a cost of $61,500 per vehicle. The plan triggered widespread anger in a nation where more than 40 percent of the population lives in poverty, according to World Bank statistics. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on September 15 demanding that parliamentarians vote to cancel the plan.

either the government changes the situation or it will be overthrown.

Tear gas filled the air and stun grenades echoed around the campus as the University of Novi Sad in northern Serbia descended into chaos on Friday night after police charged at citizens who had been peacefully protesting in front of the Faculty of Philosophy. "First, a unit of riot police burst out of the park, from the dark, rushed into the crowd and started hitting people with batons," Norbert Sinkovic, a teaching assistant at the faculty, told DW.

Demonstrations had begun peacefully, but turned violent against the nation's elite paramilitary police unit after footage showed one of its teams running over 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan late on Thursday. Protests have since spread from the capital, Jakarta, to other major cities, including Yogyakarta, Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya in Java, and Medan in North Sumatra province, in the worst unrest since Prabowo took power.

"This surge in internet prices without notice has pushed students to their limits, causing them to demand accountability from a government that seems increasingly detached from their struggles."

Tom Fletcher's speech highlights the urgent need for action on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, urging individuals to consider their legacy in confronting humanitarian crises.

The film's heroes are the four students who led the uprising: Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, Jerry Covell, Greg Hlibok and Tim Rarus; they entertainingly interviewed here.

The demand for an investigation into Columbia University student protesters has raised significant alarm among career prosecutors who see it as politically motivated and legally unsound.

"The hunger strikers say they were inspired by students at Chapman University in Orange, who launched a similar campaign in April. That strike ended after 10 days with no concessions from their university."

The Trump administration's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism cautiously praised Yale for yanking Yalies4Palestine's status and enforcing campus policies during protests against antisemitism.

Students and instructors have the option for remote learning and excused absences after backlash against returning to classes so soon after the campus shooting.

A climate of fear, intimidation, censorship - that seems to be, like, the overwhelming atmosphere on campus.