Student Activists

‘Palestine is our Compass’

May 14, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Genocide, Immigrants, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Organizing, Palestine, Resistance

Editorial, by Workers World, May 13, 2025 The movement in solidarity with Palestine had a big win when a court order released Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana detention center. On May 9 she returned to Boston. Mass support developed for Öztürk, whose arrest resembled a kidnapping by a criminal conspiracy. The criminals were from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency[…]

Momodou Taal’s First Amendment Case Against the Trump Administration Heard in Court

March 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Free Speech, Genocide, Lawfare, Palestine, Protest, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Avery Wang and Benjamin Leynse, published by the Cornell Daily Sun, March 26, 2025 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The legal fight of Momodou Taal, a pro-Palestinian activist and international graduate student, began in court on Tuesday as a federal judge heard the first arguments of Taal’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. At the heart of the hearing was Taal’s possible[…]