Activist News More than 100 people gathered at a Bay Area Rapid Transit board meeting to demand justice for Oscar Grant III.
May 11, 2009 Over 100 student and community activists came together in Boston for a Palestine solidarity strategy conference.
May 7, 2009 Students and colleagues of Dr. Nagesh Rao have launched a campaign over the rejection of his tenure application.
May 7, 2009 : Dana Cloud Campuses have become a battleground, as the right launches a witch-hunt of professors who criticize Israel, defend multiculturalism or stand up as unionists.
May 6, 2009 In protests across the country on May Day, thousands of activists marched and rallied to demand the rights that all workers deserve.
May 5, 2009 A crowd of 40 people came out to show opposition to anti-immigrant racist Tom Tancredo in Pawtucket, R.I.
May 5, 2009 Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst organized to show that bigots and sexists aren't welcome on campus.
May 5, 2009 Some 250 students and faculty walked out of classes April 22 at City College of New York in Harlem to protest looming tuition increases.
April 28, 2009 Over 250 students walked out of class and rallied at University of California-Santa Cruz to oppose cuts that are sweeping the UC system.
April 28, 2009 Antiwar activist and British MP George Galloway drew some 1,000 people to a Southern California meeting on the fight for Palestine.
April 28, 2009 A professor of English at the College of New Jersey is asking for support against his school's decision to deny him tenure.
April 24, 2009 Students at the University of Vermont marched on administration offices April 22 to stage a sit-in in two joint actions.
April 23, 2009 Margo Ramlal-Nankoe's supporters are protesting the decision to deny tenure to an outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights.
April 20, 2009 Students and faculty at the University of Vermont walked out in the latest action against the administration’s proposed budget cuts.
April 17, 2009 Student activists reacted in disgust and protest to a recent USC promotional campaign for CIA recruiters.
April 16, 2009 Over 500 nurses, union workers and health care activists came to Los Angeles to have their voices heard for a national single-payer system.
April 14, 2009 Some 200 people gathered in Madison, Wis., on April 4 for a statewide march demanding an end to war and occupation.
April 14, 2009 About 40 people turned out to demand hearings for dozens of victims of Chicago police torture who remain behind bars.
April 14, 2009 : Tom MacMillan Clark University has canceled a speech by Norman Finkelstein, the outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights.
April 13, 2009 Student activists won a victory when they forced the CIA to cancel its recruitment session at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
April 13, 2009 In response to sweeping cuts, a small group of students and teachers held an overnight protest at Castro Valley High School.
April 13, 2009 A coalition of groups turned out at the Egyptian embassy in Washington April 4 to demonstrate for democracy and human rights.
April 13, 2009 Four hundred activists marched through downtown Portland on April 4 to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
April 7, 2009 Two rallies for free speech took place on campus of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on April 1.
April 7, 2009 A determined group of teachers, students and parents came together to strategize for citywide actions to defend public education.
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