After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union’s demands for parity with how the company’s other workers are treated.
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Brown Board won’t vote on divestment amid student hunger strike
Nineteen students at Brown University were joined by dozens of supporters at a rally on the school’s main campus green on Monday, during their fourth day of a hunger strike meant to put pressure on the university to divest from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine.” The rally comes after Brown University’s […]
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19 Brown students are on a hunger strike for divestment
Nineteen students at Brown University say they’ve begun a hunger strike, in the hopes that the board that oversees the school will agree to bring the issue of divestment to a vote. The news comes amid Brown’s Corporation Board’s winter meetings, which end on Feb. 10. The students say they will not end their hunger strike […]
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RI Activists Join ICE Detainees Protesting Jail Conditions
Activist groups in Rhode Island have started a phone campaign in solidarity with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees protesting conditions in a Boston jail.
