Students protesting racism at the University of Vermont stopped traffic during the evening rush hour Thursday near campus, demanding university president Tom Sullivan come meet with them. Demonstrators stood in the intersection of Main and South Prospect streets, beside the UVM green just west of the Dudley H. Davis …

Hundreds of French police swooped in at dawn to evict about 15 protesters living in treehouses at a site that is due to be developed to store nuclear waste deep under the earth. Two bulldozers accompanied around 500 gendarmes in body armour as they removed the men and women who have been occupying a zone in …

Woodbridge High School student Abby Steinberg, who will join the nationwide protest for gun control, at Woodbridge High School in Irvine on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer). Marco Vargas is an 18-year-old senior at Nava Preparatory Academy in East Los Angeles and …

Grove City High School students also held a protest gathering at noon in their gymnasium in support of the Florida students, with organizers posting videos online of students chanting “Education is our right! It should not cost our lives!” The Upper Arlington students could have used a space inside, a refuge from the spitting …

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr praised Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students on Thursday for their protesting the United States’ gun control laws. According to Mark Medina of the Mercury News, Kerr said, “I think it’s phenomenal. What those kids are doing. It’s heroic. It’s heartfelt. I think it’s the …

Admissions officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Thursday that if college applicants are disciplined for leaving class and joining in on the growing number of national high school protests against gun violence, it won’t negatively affect their chances of getting into the renowned Cambridge school.

“It is causing massive disruption and is incredibly counterproductive when MGT are actually setting a really good example of community engagement with this power plant project. “80% of the workforce are from Teesside and the surrounding areas, with less than 5% of the labour from overseas.” Ms Turley said the protests …

Schools Superintendent Jack Smith on Thursday addressed an array of student safety issues, from the walkouts this week to the increase in threats since last week’s shooting at a Florida high school. Smith wrote in a letter to the community that Montgomery County Public Schools supports all of the students who have turned …

College admissions officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are telling students that disciplinary action related to protesting gun violence will not negatively impact their chances of getting into school. Stu Schmill, dean of admissions at MIT, wrote in a Thursday blog post that “disciplinary action associated …

Student protests are not a novelty in the United States. College students helped lead the peace movement during the Vietnam war. They were joined in the ’60s and ’70s by their parents, civil-rights groups, clergy, educators, journalists, and others including military veterans demonstrating against the conflict that claimed …

A few protests have already taken place on campuses including Harvard and Yale, and advocates are expected to gather at Rutgers University starting Thursday for a three-day conference scheduled to include a presentation on Wall Street’s growing influence in higher education, highlighting Baupost. At Cornell last week, …

In commemoration of the 32nd anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, the CEGP will hold a series of protest around the country on Friday, February 23. On February 24, the Catholic Church will hold the Walk for Life to oppose the drug war killings, the death penalty, and the looming resurgence of dictatorship in …

“We see a similarity between the way people reacted to Gov. [Scott] Walker and the way people are reacting to President Trump,” said Wisconsin state Sen. Leah Vukmir, running now in the GOP primary to challenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Vukmir was in her first term as a state senator in 2011 when pro-union protesters …

Campaigners against fox hunting are holding protests on Sunday at National Trust sites across the country. The National Trust allows so-called ‘trail hunts’ on its land, where hounds are supposedly following a scent - but many wild animals, including foxes, hares and even deer, end up being chased and killed at these …

An ambulance was delayed due to the MGT Power protest when trying to reach a man who had collapsed in a supermarket. A crew from the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) was held-up after being caught up in the heavy traffic when they were responding to a life-threatening call at Morrisons supermarket in Redcar .