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Inexperienced Social gathering 2024 presidential candidate Jill Stein was amongst 100 folks arrested Saturday at Washington College in St. Louis, her marketing campaign supervisor confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
Stein’s marketing campaign supervisor, Jason Name, mentioned that he, Stein and deputy marketing campaign supervisor Kelly Merrill-Cayer have been all arrested on the encampment on the campus.
“The demand from the encampment was particularly for the college to divest from Boeing, which manufactures munitions used within the ongoing genocide in opposition to the Palestinian folks in Gaza at their close by St Charles facility,” Name mentioned to Fox Information Digital. “The Stein marketing campaign helps the calls for of the scholars and their peaceable protest and meeting on campus. Pupil protest for peace and civil liberties has all the time represented one of the best a part of our collective ethical conscience. Solidarity.”
Greater than 100 folks have been arrested on the Washington College anti-Israel protest on Saturday, which is one among many demonstrations going down this week in school campuses throughout the nation.
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“The Stein marketing campaign helps the calls for of the scholars and their peaceable protest and meeting on campus. Pupil protest for peace and civil liberties has all the time represented one of the best a part of our collective ethical conscience. Solidarity,” the marketing campaign’s assertion
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Dr. Jill Stein was amongst 100 folks arrested Saturday at Washington College in St. Louis, her marketing campaign supervisor confirmed to Fox Information Digital by e mail on Sunday morning. (Picture by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
Stein’s arrest comes amid surging anti-Israel protests throughout the nation, with incidents of antisemitism additionally on the rise.
Stein’s arrest comes amid surging anti-Israel protests throughout the nation, with incidents of antisemitism additionally on the rise. (Picture by ALLISON BAILEY/Center East Pictures/AFP through Getty Pictures)
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USC has closed its campus to non-residents and canceled on-stage graduations. Greater than 100 have been arrested this week at Columbia College and dozens have been arrested on the College of Texas on Wednesday as properly. Demonstrations and protests have additionally taken place at Yale, Harvard, Minnesota, Johns Hopkins and Arizona State College, the place 93 folks have been arrested on Saturday morning.
Fox Information’ Scott McDonald contributed to this report
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox Information Digital overlaying nationwide politics and main breaking information occasions. Ship tricks to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
