Pro-Palestine demonstrations have cropped up on university campuses around the country, leading in some cases to arrests and clashes with police. But Brown University students and administrators this week reached a peaceful conclusion. We hear from two students about how it happened. Also, violence between cops and student protestors may seem familiar to those who witnessed the campus unrest of the 60s and other eras. But today’s militarized police response to protests at Columbia and other colleges has its roots in post-9/11 policies. Plus, we hear about a biography on one of the most influential American artists of the past 50 years: Keith Haring. That and more coming on this episode of The Weekly Catch.
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Brown University students on how the pro-Palestine encampment came to a peaceful conclusion
Brown University proved to be an outlier at university campuses this past week as police elsewhere broke up encampments and arrested protesters. Pro-Palestinian activists at Brown reached an agreement with their school’s administrators to end an encampment.
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Brown University professors accuse administrators of ‘intimidation, threats, and harassment’
Some professors at Brown University are accusing the school’s administration of surveilling and harassing faculty members who attended a pro-Palestinian encampment at the school’s Providence campus. In a statement put out by Brown’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, the professors specifically take issue with letters sent to several faculty members […]
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Student protesters, administrators at Brown University reach deal to clear encampment
Brown University has reached a deal with the group that launched a pro-Palestinian encampment last week, Brown Divest Coalition. In exchange for students clearing the encampment by 5 p.m. Tuesday and promising not to engage in unauthorized protests through the rest of the semester, administrators have agreed to bring a divestment proposal to a vote […]
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Negotiations on a deal to end Brown University encampment to continue Tuesday
Student protesters are negotiating with Brown University administrators over terms that could end a pro-Palestinian encampent at the school’s Providence campus and meet some of the activists’ demands, according to several students familiar with the discussions. On Monday at 3 p.m., a group of six student activists met with two administrators to discuss an offer […]
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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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Arraignment dates postponed for 41 Brown student protestors
The students have been asking the school to divest from funds that are invested in what they call Israeli oppression of Palestinians. A group of 41 students from Brown University who were set to come back early from winter break to make their arraignment dates will no longer have to. Their lawyer wrote in an email to […]
