Tagged - Protest

Masked protesters disrupt Boar’s Head, protest charges against students

Protesters gathered in front of the Highe Table and urged the University to drop the criminal charges against the four students recently charged with second-degree criminal mischief, saying that the University’s response is disproportionate compared to other bias-related incident reports.

We must keep fighting, and we will

While those with power myopically fret about the volume of speech and the health of grass, so many instead turn their attention to lives of hundreds of thousands of human beings.

Profiles: Students for a Democratic Society

“We try to keep out of electoral politics as much as possible and focus our energy on community organizing instead,” Schwinghammer said. 

Blindspots: How the media spun a protest into an attack

The University has a clear interest in tamping down protests related to its academic involvement with Israel, appeasing pro-Israel donors and administrators.

These ‘wanted’ posters are antisemitic. Period

Labeling the posters with “wanted” provides a uniquely dangerous situation, in which actors are inciting violence against administrators and Jews. 

‘Wanted’ posters accusing University affiliates displayed throughout campus

Posters describing University affiliates as ‘wanted’ for involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict were displayed throughout campus late Sunday night into early Monday morning.

Students protest for an Arms Embargo

Local community members joined students like members from the Rochester Committee to End Apartheid and the Party for Socialism and Liberation of the Finger Lakes division.

The impact of campus activism that falls into misinformation: A Syrian’s perspective

When campus activists speak of Israel’s “senseless violence” or “systematic erasure,” they fail to recognize that Hezbollah itself has been a major contributor to this cycle of destruction.

The surprising thing I learned when I was invited into UR’s Free Palestine encampment

It was the fact that these students were here at all, on this quad, in this camp, acting in solidarity with the several hundred thousand Palestinians refugees who, because of the war, were now forced to live in tents. This didn’t feel like a UR thing.

Students protest for Gaza and Lebanon

This was the largest protest held on campus since the latest updated protest policies released on Aug. 24.