Tag: Protest

Google Fires Another 20 Workers Over Protest – HotAir

Last week Google fired 28 employees who had participated in a sit-in aimed at getting the company to end cooperation with Israel. “Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. Years before the […]

Jewish Yale Student Stabbed in the Eye During Campus Protest – HotAir

Hundreds of Yale University students participated in an anti-Israel demonstration on campus Friday night. Non-students participated, too.  Students pitched tents to make an encampment outside the Schwarzman Center where a Board of Trustees meeting was being held with top university officials.  There were about a dozen police cruisers from the New Haven Police Department and […]

Leftist President Gustavo Petro’s reform agenda draws tens of thousands of Colombians in protest

BOGOTA, Colombia — Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro’s reform agenda. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogota. While protests have been a constant since the former leftist guerrilla took office […]