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"Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors": Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72
10 de mayo, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)The play Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors, which is being staged this week in Brooklyn, tells the story of the 2017 apartment fire at Grenfell Tower in London that killed 72 people. It was the worst fire in Britain since World War II, and survivors blamed the government for mismanaging the (…) -
Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine
10 de mayo, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)Gaza solidarity encampments, which started on U.S. college campuses, have now spread worldwide as students call on their educational institutions to divest from companies profiting from Israeli apartheid and occupation. The uprising echoes the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s, when many in (…) -
Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting "Uncommitted" in NJ
10 de mayo, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)Larry Hamm is chair of the People’s Organization for Progress and a Princeton alumnus who took part in protests at the school in the 1970s to call for divestment from apartheid South Africa. He visited the Princeton student encampment earlier this week and says he is “really (…) -
"We Feel Unheard": Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met
10 de mayo, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands. The hunger (…) -
12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues
10 de mayo, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)The first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment in the United States was launched Wednesday at The New School in New York City, where nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the lobby of the university’s main building on Fifth Avenue. The encampment is named after the (…)