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![A girl in a black hoodie with her back turned to the camera makes a peace sign while standing beside a painting reading "Women, life, freedom,"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0429-iran-protest-2-400x300.jpg)
They Risked Their Lives for Freedom in Iran. Now They Fear Israel’s Bombs.
Having survived waves of domestic repression, protesters in Iran are now in the crosshairs of Israeli bombs.
![Students and faculty at UC Burkley camp on the campus in tents as a rally gathers around them](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0429-ucberkeley-400x300.jpg)
Berkeley’s Free Palestine Encampment Draws on Legacy of Palestinian Protests
Student organizer Malak Afaneh discusses the demands of the movement and calls for students everywhere to organize.
![A protester is detained by police as pro-Palestinian students protest the genocide in Gaza on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, on April 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2149597182-400x300.jpg)
Crackdowns on Protests Are Exposing Higher Ed’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
Student protests are ramping up, and university administrations are menacing students with police and surveillance.
![Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students and Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/SEG1-teargassandtaze-400x300.jpg)
Police Violently Crack Down on Emory University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Police used tear gas and stun guns to break up the encampment as they wrestled people to the ground.
![Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to reporters outside the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill on April 23, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0425-bernie-sanders-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Sharply Rebukes Netanyahu’s Claim That Campus Protests Are Antisemitic
“It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a scathing statement.
![Texas State Troopers and other police forces monitor the scene as pro-Palestinian students protest on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, on April 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0425-ut-400x300.jpg)
UT Austin Faculty Strike in Solidarity With Pro-Palestine Student Protesters
Faculty are acting together, without a union, to break the law and stop work in order to protect the student movement.
![Advocates with lived homelessness experience demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/IMG_5004-400x300.jpg)
SCOTUS Ignores Housing Crisis in Hearing on Laws Criminalizing Unhoused People
As the court hearing took place, unhoused people and their allies rallied outside, demanding “housing, not handcuffs.”
![Across the US, Campus Protests for Palestine Face Intensifying Police Crackdowns](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/CampusCrackdownCREDIT-Reuters-400x300.jpg)
Across the US, Campus Protests for Palestine Face Intensifying Police Crackdowns
Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the US arms industry continue coast to coast.
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Climate Activists Blockade HQ of World’s Second-Largest Funder of Fossil Fuels
Activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn Citigroup’s environmental racism.
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Cops Raid Palestinian Solidarity Encampments, Arrest Protesters at Yale and NYU
The encampment at Columbia University is entering its seventh day despite mass arrests of protesters there last week.