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May 15 2024
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Georgia Passes Foreign Agent Law Despite Massive Protests, Parliament Brawls
The legislature of Georgia approved a controversial “foreign agent” law on Tuesday despite massive protests in the streets and vicious fistfights breaking out on the floor of parliament. Protesters unsuccessfully tried to force their way into the parliament building after the vote was announced, prompting fresh clashes with the police. The bill passed by a vote of 84-30 during all this
Breitbart NewsMay 15 2024
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UAW Files Complaint Against Harvard for Punishing Student Workers in Gaza Protests
The United Auto Workers filed a complaint against Harvard University on Wednesday, alleging that the school violated the rights of graduate student workers by quashing their efforts to organize in opposition to their university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza. In the filing made to the National Labor Relations Board, the UAW accused the university of surveilling employees, and retaliating
Daily BeastMay 13 2024
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Armenia Detains 151 Protesters Opposed To Land Deal With Azerbaijan: Police
Armenian police said on Monday they had detained dozens of people attempting to block streets in the capital Yerevan as part of protests against government plans to concede land to Azerbaijan.
The interior ministry confirmed to AFP that a total of 151 people had been detained, up from 88 reported earlier. It said in an earlier statement said that protesters had been unable to close off
Barron'sMay 15 2024
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Pro-Hamas Tech Workers Protest Google's Contacts with Israel at Developer Conference
Dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to Google’s developer conference on Tuesday, demanding an end to the tech giant’s collaboration with the Israeli government amidst the country’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., faced a protest on Tuesday by a group calling itself No Tech for Genocide, which accuses
Breitbart NewsMay 15 2024
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Harvard’s Crackdown on Gaza Protest Violated US Labor Law, Union Claims
The United Auto Workers filed a US labor board complaint over Harvard University’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests, claiming the university violated grad students’ rights as employees. In a Wednesday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, the union accused the university of surveillance and retaliation against workplace-related collective action in its response to student
BloombergMay 15 2024
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Records: Man charged after bringing gun to April 29 protest at UT
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man was charged with a third-degree felony after he was found to have a gun while participating in a rally at the University of Texas at Austin campus April 29, according to Travis County court documents. Records showed 26-year-old Michael David Maule had an active warrant out for his arrest related to a charge of “Places Weapons Prohibited” for carrying the gun on the
KXAN NewsMay 12 2024
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Johns Hopkins protesters pack up, but graduation demonstrations persist elsewhere
Pro-Palestinian protests at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have dismantled a tent encampment, joining other demonstrators in decamping the campsites as campuses empty out for summer break. In a statement Sunday, the Hopkins Justice Collective said it had agreed to take down the protest enclosure as part of a deal in which the school agreed to expedite hearings over the possibility of
The Times of IsraelMay 15 2024
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Anti-Israel protest disrupts Google conference: 'Google Cloud rains blood'
Protesters at Google’s developer conference in Mountain View, California chanted "Shame on Google" and "Google Cloud rains blood" while blocking entrance into the event this morning. According to , demands of the anti-Israel demonstrators at the event were that the company cease its business with the Israeli government through Google’s Nimbus project, a $1.2-billion cloud-computing and
Fox BusinessMay 10 2024
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Altered mugshots of Florida protesters originate from parody X account
Mugshots of four students arrested during a protest at the University of Florida shared on social media have been altered to change their facial features and make them appear older. The manipulated images were first posted online by a parody account on platform X. Social media posts shared the edited images with the caption: “Mugshots have been released tonight of some of the students who have
Reuters Fact CheckMay 12 2024
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Thousands of Georgians defy warnings to join protest against ‘Russia’ bill
Protesters are angry at government efforts to pass a law against ‘foreign agents’ which mirrors repressive Russian legislation. Thousands of Georgians have joined new protests in Tbilisi against a Russian-styled “foreign agents” bill, as the government insisted it would push ahead with the legislation even after some of the largest protests since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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