2024-05-15: News Headlines

Sacred Black, Red, IndyBay. (2024-05-15). University Of California Office Of The President Attacked. popularresistance.org With the Aurora Borealis above us and the martyrs in our hearts, we attacked the UC Office of the President in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. Using a fire extinguisher filled with red paint we covered the facade and smashed seven windows. Then, with access to the building, we released 500 cockroaches inside and emptied a second fire extinguisher onto the interior. We finalized the act by leaving a water jug inscribed with "Bonk" at the scene – an homage to the militants of Cal Poly Humboldt and the international student encampment movement.

WSWS (2024-05-15). University of Michigan lecturers' union imposes sellout contract, isolating student anti-genocide protesters. wsws.org With far less than half of the membership voting on the contract, the LEO-AFT bureaucracy forced through a sellout contract, isolating pro-Palestinian protesters.

WSWS (2024-05-15). As strike vote against police crackdown continues, students and educators oppose UAW stalling. wsws.org Only through the mobilization of the working class, which creates all of society's wealth, can the genocide in Gaza and other criminal wars be stopped. At the same time, the broadening of the struggle will also give grad students the strongest possible position to resist attempts by the UAW bureaucracy to limit or prevent a strike.

Staff (2024-05-15). Headlines for May 15, 2024. democracynow.org Biden to Send Another $1 Billion in Arms to Israel as Palestinians Mark 76th Nakba Anniversary, Palestinian Truck Drivers Face New Risks After Settlers Attacked Aid Convoy in West Bank, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Joins March Calling for Resettlement of Gaza, Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Google Conference Over Israel Contract, Harvard Students End Encampment as Officials Agree to Discuss Divestment Demand, House Speaker Mike Johnson Visits Trump Trial & Bashes Prosecution, Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia Hold Primaries, Ukrainian Forces Withdraw from Areas of Kharviv Amid…

Staff (2024-05-15). Drop the Charges: Demands for CUNY to Divest from Israel Met by Violent Police Repression & Felony Charges. democracynow.org Students and workers at the City University of New York held a peaceful occupation Tuesday of the school's Graduate Center in solidarity with Palestine and renamed its library "The Al Aqsa University Library," after Gaza's oldest public university, which was destroyed by Israel's bombardment. This comes as over 500 faculty and staff at CUNY have signed a letter demanding the charges be dropped against at least 173 people arrested in April when NYPD violently raided a peaceful Gaza solidarity encampment on the City College campus. "This is really the most egregious example we&#8…

greenleft.org.au (2024-05-15). Students for Palestine call on universities to disclose, divest and boycott Israel. greenleft.org.au

Mohamed Mandour (2024-05-15). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. cpj.org Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging. In addition to documenting the growing tally of journalists killed and injured, CPJ's research has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists being targeted while carrying out…

Bianca Rodriguez-Mora (2024-05-15). New School students and faculty occupy the Welcome Center. newschoolfreepress.com New School students and faculty in support of Palestine have occupied the Welcome Center and are demanding the Board of Trustees vote to divest from companies supporting Israel. The group is letting people out of the building but allowing no one inside. The demonstrators renamed the building the "Lama Jamous Center," in honor of Lama…

Staff (2024-05-15). Headlines for May 15, 2024. democracynow.org Biden to Send Another $1 Billion in Arms to Israel as Palestinians Mark 76th Nakba Anniversary, Palestinian Truck Drivers Face New Risks After Settlers Attacked Aid Convoy in West Bank, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Joins March Calling for Resettlement of Gaza, Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Google Conference Over Israel Contract, Harvard Students End Encampment as Officials Agree to Discuss Divestment Demand, House Speaker Mike Johnson Visits Trump Trial & Bashes Prosecution, Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia Hold Primaries, Ukrainian Forces Withdraw from Areas of Kharkiv Amid…

The Associated Press (2024-05-15). Harvard students end protest as university agrees to discuss Middle East conflict. haaretz.com Harvard University interim President Alan Garber agreed to pursue a meeting between protesters and university officials regarding the students' questions…

Anne Farrell (2024-05-15). McGill students will stay on university grounds until the administration respect students demand. pressenza.com While incessant Israeli bombardments began in Rahat in the Gaza Strip where nearly 450,000 Palestinians had to flee several areas shelled by Israel. McGill University students in Montreal are still mobilized and occupy the university grounds with several dozen tents. | Several meetings between students and the McGill administration have taken place in recent days. According to a spokesperson for the student camp, negotiations had progressed over the past week. But this weekend, the university decided to short-circuit the negotiations by appealing to the Superior Court of Quebec with a request for an injunction to…

Black Rose Anarchist Federation (2024-05-15). A Letter From Black Rose Militants in California Public Universities to Our Colleagues. itsgoingdown.org Open letter from militants within the Black Rose Anarchist Federation to workers at public universities in California. As members of grad student union UAW 4811 across the University of California begin voting in a unfair labor practice strike authorization in response to the encampment crackdown, members of BRRN who work in California universities drafted the…

kwjorinoco (2024-05-15). President Maduro: Venezuela Is Transitioning to Socialism. orinocotribune.com By ensuring that Venezuela is on the path to socialism, the head of state, Nicolás Maduró, pointed out that the construction of a society with the principles of equality, peace, and solidarity "takes time, but we have advanced thanks to the ideology of Comandante Chávez." | President Maduro emphasized that thanks to the conscience and values of Venezuelan society, it has been possible to build an organized state of social well-being with a clear and human vision, according to a presidential press release. | "We have an important vanguard in the people, in the common man, in the common woman," said the president d…

Sara Flounders (2024-05-15). DIVEST Now! A revolutionary demand. workers.org Why have student encampments for Palestine ignited such an uproar of brutal repression, vicious police attacks, mass arrests, overwhelming condemnation in the corporate media and a new level of reactionary legislation in Congress? Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 2024. The demand to divest, raised at almost every encampment, exposes the . . . |

Sara Flounders (2024-05-15). DIVEST Now! /A revolutionary demand. workers.org Why have student encampments for Palestine ignited such an uproar of brutal repression, vicious police attacks, mass arrests, overwhelming condemnation in the corporate media and a new level of reactionary legislation in Congress? Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 2024. The demand to divest, raised at almost every encampment, exposes the . . . |

Angela (2024-05-15). Thursday 5/16: Virtual Teach-In about Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | http: //tinyurl.com/PalestineThursday…

Gray Area, the Design Science Studio (2024-05-15). Thursday 5/16: regen ∑era Rising: A Global Confluence for Creators of Regenerative. indybay.org 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110…

California Faculty Association (2024-05-15). CFA Members File Unfair Practice Charge Over Cal Poly Humboldt's Campus Closure. indybay.org May 9, 2024 – This week, CFA members filed an Unfair Practice Charge with California's Public Employer Employee Relations Board (PERB) over Cal Poly Humboldt administration's decision to close the campus for the remainder of the spring semester. Management took the extraordinary step of closing down the campus last month in response to students protesting the war in Gaza when other campuses around the country have remained open despite fairly large actions and police responses. At Cal Poly Humboldt, students and a faculty member occupied a campus building for several days before being forcibly removed and arreste…

sacred black, red (2024-05-15). Bonk: University of California Office of the President Attacked. indybay.org With the Aurora Borealis above us and the martyrs in our hearts, we attacked the UC Office of the President in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. Using a fire extinguisher filled with red paint we covered the facade and smashed seven windows. Then, with access to the building, we released 500 cockroaches inside and emptied a second fire exintguisher onto the interior. We finalized the act by leaving a water jug inscribed with "Bonk" at the scene – an homage to the militants of Cal Poly Humboldt and the international student encampment movement.

Encampment Report (2024-05-15). Stanford People's University Stands Strong Against Inter-Fascist Forces. indybay.org On May 12 Zionist and Hindu supremacist groups rallied on Stanford University campus. Students at the People's University encampment refused to be intimidated.

Adam Fishbein (2024-05-15). Student Debt Crisis Would Likely Worsen Under a Second Trump Administration. cepr.net The crisis of student debt has reached proportions never before seen in the United States. Collectively, students owed $1.6 trillion in federal student loans at the end of 2023. However, that total is slightly lower than it was two years prior, thanks to some proactive actions from the Biden administration. The administration has pursued a …

George Ochenski (2024-05-15). Property Tax Quake in Helena. counterpunch.org Not since the 1935 earthquake has Helena, the home of state and federal government in Montana, been shaken quite this way. Every school levy on last Tuesday's ballot was soundly rejected by voters. Why? Not because they don't support education — but because our insanely high property taxes have left homeowners tapped out. Of course

William Hartung (2024-05-15). Reflections on Student Activism. counterpunch.org I've spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I've been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and its allies in Congress and at the Pentagon as they push for a "military-first" foreign policy. I've worked

Melvin Goodman (2024-05-15). Donald Trump's War on Science and the Environment. counterpunch.org We've spent 40 years putting together an apparatus to protect public health and environment from a lot of different pollutants. [Former EPA administrator Scott} Pruitt is pulling the whole apparatus down. — William Ruckelshaus, the EPA's first administrator, regarding former president Trump's first EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. One of President Joe Biden's greatest accomplishments over

Rhoda Wilson (2024-05-15). Many countries have reached the point of over-medication. expose-news.com There is not only evidence for the uselessness of much medical research: there are also sound indications that many developed countries have reached a point of over-medication which is harmful to health. …

Al Mayadeen (2024-05-15). US Expands Production of 15-ton Bombs to Target Nuclear Facilities. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2024-05-15). The Challenge of the 2020-2021 Corona Crisis: Your Life, Your Mind, Your Soul. Dr. Pascal Sacré. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2024-05-15). Selected Articles: The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy. globalresearch.ca By While the book is terrific, I must say I do not agree that we need a new investigation. The facts have long …

Bharat Dogra (2024-05-15). Is the U.S. Fast Losing One of the Most Important Assets of Democracy: Capacity for Timely Corrective Action? globalresearch.ca

Jon Rappoport (2024-05-15). Red Alert: WHO Pandemic "Treaty" Is Now an "Agreement" globalresearch.ca

Staff (2024-05-15). Court reserves order on bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid. muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Staff A Delhi court on Monday reserved for May 28 its order on the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid, who is an accused in the case of alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots. Khalid has been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) …

Staff (2024-05-15). Court reserves order on bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid. muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Staff A Delhi court on Monday reserved for May 28 its order on the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid, who is an accused in the case of alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots. Khalid has been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) …

Ana Luisa Brown (2024-05-15). Rate of increased CO2 is ten times faster in 50,000 years. plenglish.com Washington, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The rate of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is ten times faster than in the last 50,000 years, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

Darío Aranda (2024-05-15). Andrés Carrasco, the scientist who decided to walk with the people. pressenza.com He confronted agribusiness companies, governments, and extractive scientists. It marked a before and after in the debate on the GM model, confirming that glyphosate is lethal to embryos. It was taken up by socio-environmental assemblies, peasant movements, and indigenous peoples. From the Peronist Youth to Zapatismo, from Conicet to the territories in struggle. Andrés Carrasco: heretic scientist, political activist, and, ten years after his departure, a review of his history and legacy. | Reality is too important to be left to scientists. People have profound knowledge that science does not want to learn. The str…

teleSUR (2024-05-15). 68,000 Japanese Elderly To Die Alone in Their Homes This Year. telesurenglish.net The National Police Agency of Japan estimates that around 68,000 people over the age of 65 could die alone in their homes this year if the current trend of these deaths continues. | RELATED: | At least 21,716 "lonely deaths" occurred in the Asian country between January and March, of which 17,034 – or 78 percent – were individuals over 65 years old, according to statistics revealed this week and collected by the national n…

tvbrics (2024-05-15). Chinese researchers develop soybean breeding lines. tvbrics.com New technologies in the field of breeding increase Chinese yields…

UMMID (2024-05-15). Maharashtra 10th, 12th Results 2024: Board Updates Date and Time. ummid.com Amidst wild speculations on the dates of Maharashtra 2024 SSC (10th) and 2024 HSC (12th) result announcement, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has issued an important update on its official website mahresult.nic.in.

UMMID (2024-05-15). OFSS Inter [Class 11] Admission 2024: Registration re-starts for CBSE, ICSE students. ummid.com The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has re-opened the link to receive Online Application forms for Class 11 (Intermediate) Admission 2024 through Online Facilitation System For Students (OFSS) website (www.ofssbihar.info) from CBSE and ICSE students.

Staff (2024-05-15). NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons, Energy, and Risk. davidswanson.org

Editor (2024-05-15). U.S.: Political repression backfires as pro-Palestinian campus protests grow. mronline.org Police arrested more than 2,300 protesters in at least 58 crackdowns at 44 colleges or universities between April 18 and May 3 as pro-Palestinian encampments spread like wildfire across the U.S. It can reasonably be argued that university administrators themselves provoked students into taking action, and it can certainly be proven that they fanned the flames of defiance after the protests began—by forcibly repressing the protests.

Stephen Williams (2024-05-15). Pa. teacher shortage acute in special education, math and in underserved communities. whyy.org From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? According to Teach Plus, a nonprofit education advocacy group, the statewide teacher shortage is more acute in special education, math and science and in underserved rural and urban areas. | As of October 2023, school districts across Pennsylvania reported 2,000 teacher vacancies and another 6,500 are teaching on emergency certificates. An added concern is that the teacher attrition rate is 6%. | The state Department of Education issues emergency permits to public schools th…

Bloomberg (2024-05-15). OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to leave ChatGPT maker after briefly supporting ouster of CEO Sam Altman. scmp.com The departure ends months of speculation in Silicon Valley about the future of a top AI researcher and OpenAI co-founder since he largely disappeared from public view.

Hannah Davenport (2024-05-15). Record high 3.1m emergency food parcels given out in a year. leftfootforward.org More than 3.1m emergency food parcels were handed out by Trussell Trust food banks in the past year, a record high for the charity. | The shocking new statistics reveal a shameful failure of the social security system to support people financially, as the Trussell Trust charity said the number of people using food banks had nearly doubled compared to five years ago. | Food parcels provided for children made up more than 1.1m of the parcels, while 655,000 people were reported using a food bank for the first time between April last year and March 2024. | Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, Emma Revie, said t…

| Name (2024-05-15). Georgian parliament passes 'foreign agent' law despite widespread opposition. rferl.org

UMMID (2024-05-15). CBSE 10th Result 2024 declared, Pass Percentage tops 93.60%. ummid.com The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared today i.e. Monday May 13, 2024 Class 10 (Class Xth) exam results on its official website cbseresults.nic.in.

ecns.cn (2024-05-15). Nationwide campaign launched to address campus issues including bullying, excessive homework. ecns.cn MOE on Tuesday launched a nationwide campaign to address 12 key issues in primary and secondary education, including campus bullying, excessive homework, and the distortion of history in teaching.

greenleft.org.au (2024-05-15). University of Sydney students show solidarity with Gaza. greenleft.org.au

Grace Coleman (2024-05-15). New Screen Fest showcases 26 student-made films at DCTV. newschoolfreepress.com On Saturday, May 11, the second annual New Screen Fest took place at DCTV, a community media center in Chinatown. The event featured 26 student-made films and lasted from 11: 00 a.m. to 6: 45 p.m. For the first time, the New Screen Fest was available to take as a course titled Lang Film Festival during the…

noemail (2024-05-15). Case against 2 poll personnel in Palghar for failure to distribute voter slips. devdiscourse.com Police have registered a case against two booth level officers for allegedly not distributing voter slips to electors in Maharashtra's Palghar district for the Lok Sabha election scheduled on May 20, an official said on Wednesday.

NEOB (2024-05-15). President Ramaphosa to visit George building disaster site. sanews.gov.za President Ramaphosa to visit George building disaster site | President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit the site of the collapsed George building in the Western Cape on Thursday. | The building construction site collapsed nearly ten days ago — trapping at least 81 people under the rubble. | By 9am on Wednesday, the George Municipality had released the following statistics: | Total estimated individuals on-site when the incident occurred: 81 | Rescued and recovered: 62 | Of which deceased: 33 (27 males, six females) | Currently hospitalised: 12 | Unaccounted for: 19 | In a statement, the Presidency said…

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco (2024-05-15). A trillion cicadas will emerge in the next few weeks. This hasn't happened since 1803. grist.org This coverage is made possible through a partnership If you live in the Midwest or the Southeast, you know the cicadas are coming. | And if you live in Chicago, you know the Cicadalypse is coming. | Cicadas, winged buggy noisemakers whose relatives include leaf-hoppers and spittle bugs, come in two varieties: the annual cicadas who, sure enough, appear every year and the periodical cicadas, who appear in 13-year an…

Hannah Davenport (2024-05-15). Caroline Lucas takes apart Tories sex education plan in one tweet. leftfootforward.org Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has torn into the government's new guidance for schools in England due to be published on Thursday, after details of the plan were leaked to the media. | A government source said the new guidelines for schools on relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) will include a ban on teaching sex education to children under nine, while 'explicit' discussions including on topics such as contraception won't be allowed until age 13. | Head teachers have challenged the introduction of new guidance for schools, with the head of a school in Rotherham, Pepe Di'Iasio, telling the BBC Today s…

UMMID (2024-05-15). Oracle expands its R&D capabilities in Morocco. ummid.com Software major Oracle has planned to expand its Research and Development (R&D) capabilities in Morocco by growing its local workforce to 1,000 Information Technology (IT) professionals.

Madelyn Hoffman (2024-05-15). Green Party of NJ Candidate for US Senate, Christina Khalil, Supports Growing Student Movement in Solidarity with Palestine. fightbackbetter.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 14, 2024Contact: info@khalilforsenate.com mrhlepaix@gmail.com Green Party of New Jersey's Candidate for U.S. Senate, Christina Khalil, Supports the…

Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza (2024-05-15). Ex-Penn researcher launches a biotech startup to manufacture antibodies in Philly. whyy.org From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? In mid-May, Philadelphia-based life sciences company "Many antibodies today in the scientific market are not renewable, or they come from animal sources every time. And that means it uses a lot of animals," said Ben Doranz, CEO. "It's al…

Zo HaDerekh (2024-05-15). Arab and Jewish students unite in Tel Aviv to mark Nakba Day. peoplesworld.org TEL AVIV—Hundreds of Arab and Jewish students took part at noon Wednesday in a rally commemorating Nakba Day that was held at the entrance to Tel Aviv University on the initiative of the student chapter of Hadash, the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. Contrary to what has happened in the past 11 years, the …

Peter Crimmins (2024-05-15). Love in a time of dementia: 'A Song by Mahler' combines science and music. whyy.org From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? When the person you love is disappearing into dementia, what love remains? | Composer Marc Neikrug found a vessel to describe love in a period of Alzheimer's disease in a song by Gustav Mahler, "Liebst du um Schà∂nheit." | "It's a very simple, short, loaded song," Neikrug said. "It's basically a series of questions and answers." | Composer Marc Neikrug watches a rehearsal for the Philadelphia debut of his chamber opera "A Song by Mahler" at the Kimmel Center. (Emma Le…

UMMID (2024-05-15). CBSE 12th Result 2024 declared, Pass Percentage tops 87.98%. ummid.com The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared today i.e. Monday May 13, 2024 Class 12 (Class XIIth) exam results on its official website cbseresults.nic.in.

Yorgos Mitralias (2024-05-15). The student movement for Palestine is now spreading everywhere, inspiring resistance to the barbarism of our times… cadtm.org

newarab (2024-05-15). Ben & Jerry's say pro-Gaza protests 'essential' to democracy. newarab.com The board of the international ice cream brand "Student-led protests against the Vietnam War and Apartheid South Africa, and now the campus protests in solidarity with Gaza, are all part of our rich history of free speech and non-violent protest that makes change and is essential to a stro…

presstv.ir (2024-05-15). Students set up tent camp at Turin university in support of Palestinians. presstv.ir Dozens of pro-Palestinian students set up an encampment at Turin Polytechnic University to protest Israel's war in Gaza.

presstv.ir (2024-05-15). Duke University commencement speech prompts walkout over speaker's Israel support. presstv.ir Dozens of students leave Duke University's commencement ceremony over speaker's support for Israel.

presstv.ir (2024-05-15). Students at American University in Cairo protest in support of Gaza. presstv.ir Dozens of students at the American University in Cairo rallied inside the campus in support of Gaza.

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