At Ithaca College in upstate New York, up to 2,000 faculty, students and staff staged a walkout on Wednesday to call for the resignation of President Tom Rochon. The students lay down on the rainy walkways in a mass "die-in." They expressed solidarity with students on other campuses across the country.
The red carpet and awards ceremony of the 2015 Massachusetts Flash Film Festival.
The documentary "We Are Many" focuses on the February 15, 2003, global protests against the Iraq War. The film tells the story of that historic day and how its events have helped shape political movements around the world ever since. In this web exclusive, we continue our discussion with the film's producer and director, Amir Amirani. "In Egypt, antiwar activists, who were part of the global antiwar movement, held a small protest … but they could see what was happening in the rest of the world," says Amirani.
Antonio Tizapa crossed the finish line of the New York City Marathon Sunday holding a poster of his son's face. Tizapa's son, Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño, is one of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa rural teachers' college missing from the Mexican state of Guerrero since the night of September 26, 2014, when they were attacked by local police. The Mexican government has claimed the students were killed and incinerated by a local drug gang.
