Protests

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.

New York police officers arrived at Columbia University shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday night to clear protesters barricaded inside Hamilton Hall.

Police cleared out an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian protestors on Yale’s campus Tuesday but the demonstrators vowed they would return.

Encampments set up at pro-Palestinian protests were taken down at Yale University and the University of Connecticut on Tuesday morning and police made some arrests at UConn.

“I think our demands are pretty simple. Disclose, divest and reinvest in the New Haven community,” Yale student Chisato Kimura said. There’s a growing encampment at Yale University as pro-Palestinian protests continued on Monday. “We’re going to be out here, we’re going to be speaking out,” Kimura said. In the literal sense, Monday’s scene was mostly quiet compared to...

Dozens of tents are set up at Yale University as pro-Palestinian protests continue on the Quad. University police are monitoring the area.

UConn students and community members are on day two of a protest in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and are showing their opposition to the war between Israel and Hamas. “We feel we as students we have a responsibility to use any little power, we may have to make the big changes that need to be made,” student…

Dozens of UConn students flooded the Storrs campus in a display of solidarity with the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Sixty people were arrested during a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza at Yale University in New Haven on Monday.

Nearly 50 people supporting Palestinians in Gaza were arrested on Yale’s campus Monday morning before about 200 protesters blocked a busy New Haven intersection for most of the day.

Two climate activists targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass.

Protesters interrupted New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker in the middle of his State of the City address Monday night, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.

A protester is in critical condition after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta.

Greenpeace activists are engaged in a sit-in protest on a deep-sea mining ship in the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii.