NEW HAVEN, Connecticut: Scores of graduating students staged a walkout from Yale University's commencement exercises on Monday (May 20), protesting the Israeli war in Gaza, Yale's financial ties to weapons makers and its response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the Ivy League campus.
Graduates protest the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during the commencement at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US, May 20, 2024. NEW HAVEN, Connecticut: Scores of graduating students staged a walkout from Yale University's commencement exercises on Monday , protesting the Israel i war in Gaza , Yale's financial ties to weapons makers and its response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the Ivy League campus.
Other signs read:"Drop the charges" and"Protect free speech" in reference to 45 people arrested in a police crackdown last month on demonstrations in and around the New Haven, Connecticut campus. Fallout from a violent attack weeks ago on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, reverberated on the UC Santa Cruz campus on Monday as academic workers there staged a protest strike organised by their union.
The strikers are members of the United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents some 2,000 grad students and other academic workers at UC Santa Cruz, and about 48,000 total across all 10 University of California campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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