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In 1951, members of the American Legion began accusing various university faculty of being communists. [8] University administrations responded by banning left-wing student groups and communist speakers. [4] Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee investigated 18 faculty members at Sarah Lawrence College, some of whom were pressured to resign. [8]
In May 2024, a group of student activists at the University of Edinburgh pitched tents in the Old College Quad to protest against what they alleged was the university's failure to divest itself of investments deemed proxy support for the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. Eight of the protesters launched a hunger strike. [112] [113]
James Francis Burke received significant funding from the RNC to support the American Republican College League's founding and to maintain the organization's early offices in New York City and Chicago. [6] By 1924, the organization was operating directly under the auspices of the RNC as the Associated University Republican Clubs. [6]
The right to protest does not equal the right to cause the chaos roiling Columbia and other universities, writes Capitolis CEO Gil Mandelzis. Right, wrong, and a moment for clarity: Why ...
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd says leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.
Marquette University professor Scott Idleman and the American Civil Liberties Union offered insight about protest rights to know about during the RNC. Protest rights may look a little different ...
The history of left-wing politics in the United States consists of a broad range of individuals and groups that have sought fundamental egalitarian changes. [1] Left-wing activists in the United States have been credited with advancing social change on issues such as labor and civil rights as well as providing critiques of capitalism.
The Post also said Soros had donated $132,000 to the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation, or WESPAC Foundation, a group the newspaper called "a major funder of anti-Israel groups ...