Protests

Tesla showrooms, vehicle lots, charging stations and privately owned cars have been targeted across the country since Elon Musk has taken a prominent role in the White House.

Mahmoud Khalil said he is being targeted as part of an effort to repress Palestinian voices in a letter dictated from a Louisiana immigration center.

Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by immigration authorities last weekend, prompting outrage.

Barnard College’s library was evacuated as police responded to a fake bomb threat during a sit-in staged by pro-Palestinian protesters.

Protestors in Serbia threw smoke grenades and tear gas during a Parliament session Tuesday in an effort to denounce government corruption. Three were injured, and one was hospitalized.

Dozens of federal workers fired by the Department of Government Efficiency held a sit-in on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning.

Hundreds of people around Connecticut joined nationwide protests on Presidents Day in opposition of President Donald Trump. Rallies were held in Washington, D.C. and in cities around the country, including Hartford and New Haven. “Basically, fight for all of our rights, not just my own rights but the rights of children growing up in this country,” Hanna Westby, of...

All over the country, people spent Presidents’ Day protesting the current occupant of the White House, and that includes right here in Connecticut. Hundreds of people gathered outside the state capitol to say they think the Trump administration is going too far.

Thousands of people from around the United States are rallying in the nation’s capital for women’s reproductive rights and other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming Trump administration.

Democratic lawmakers who loudly boycotted Trump’s first inauguration say they feel compelled to go this time, while protests are expected to be a fraction of their 2017 size.

The People’s March will focus on a broader set of goals around women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration, climate and democracy, rather than on Trump himself, as the Women’s March did before his first inauguration.

“2024 was the hottest year on record. We have passed the 1.5 degree threshold that was supposed to keep us safe,” explained the British environmental activist group, Just Stop Oil.

Machinists rallied outside Pratt & Whitney’s Middletown factory Friday to protest furlough days. The company is imposing seven unpaid days in 2025 as a cost saving measure. The workers were frustrated with the decision, but also said the move sends a bad message with union contract talks set to start in just three months. “This solidifies our membership,” International Association…

Pratt & Whitney employees rallied outside the company’s Middletown plant on Friday to protest unpaid furloughs.

Workers United, the union behind the strike that started on Friday, represents more than 10,500 workers at 525 stores.

New Zealand’s Parliament was briefly suspended Thursday after Maori members staged a traditional ceremonial dance to protest legislation that would reinterpret a treaty between the British and indigenous Maori.

Elected officials in New York City and Los Angeles have signaled recently that they’re open to reinstating decades-old mask bans after several tense pro-Palestinian demonstrations, where local officials say masked protesters aimed to conceal their identity.

The pro-Palestinian demonstration comes after more than a dozen protestors were arrested on June 5.

The group Climate Defiance took responsibility for the protest, wearing shirts reading “end fossil fuels.”

There have been weeks of protests, encampments and the occupation of an administration building at Columbia that led to a police response and mass arrests.