protests

“Let them in”: Syracuse residents gather at airport to protest Trump’s immigration executive order
By Sarah Heikkinen
January 30, 2017 - 12:32am
SU students, activists and families with young children protested President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration Sunday night at the local airport.

At least 1,000 protesters gathered at Terminal A in the Syracuse Hancock International Airport Sunday night to protest the latest executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

They carried signs of all shapes, sizes and colors, presenting the same underlying message: #NoMuslimBan.

A Southside 'Gentle Giant' leads local Black Lives Matter group, brings hope to Syracuse
By Bridget Whitfield
September 14, 2016 - 8:32pm
Anthony Harper is no stranger to the violence in Syracuse and is rallying his community together to create change.

Anthony Harper sits on a bench near Mountain Park Avenue, hunched over his phone, wearing a black baseball cap, a gray tank top, dark blue denim, and light brown work boots. He stands up, he is 6-feet 5-inches. His arms stretch out like tree trunks with hands the size of catcher’s mitts. His arms are sculpted with hard muscles and tattooed with thick black lines that swirled around his shoulder blades and on to his chest.

Generating justice with nonviolent protests
By Ibet Inyang
December 11, 2014 - 12:25pm
Peaceful movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and THE General Body inspire conversation on how social movements gain momentum and whether they will actually lead to justice.

In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, one of the best-selling films of the year, heroine Katniss Everdeen and the people of her society declare the violence and injustice that the Capitol has subjected them to must end, and that the people will keeping fighting back until it does end.

“If we burn, you burn with us,” she proclaims. 

Protests in Hong Kong hit home for exchange, study abroad students at SU
By Shi Shi
November 2, 2014 - 2:55pm
The Umbrella Movement began in Hong Kong in late September, as a response to changes to the electoral process there.

Tying yellow ribbons on the street fences in Hong Kong as a symbol of democracy, student activists launched the Umbrella Movement in late September to fight for the universal suffrage in the district.

Protesters disrupt conservative pundit's lecture
By Rebecca Shabad
March 4, 2011 - 12:30am
About 25 students demonstrate outside of Maxwell School where Michelle Malkin spoke about the political left blaming the right for terror attempts, mass shootings and more.

A small but vocal group of students rallied against controversial political commentator Michelle Malkin’s Thursday talk at Syracuse University.

Since the release of her book, "The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror", Malkin has emerged as a leading conservative blogger, best-selling author and regular guest on Fox News Channel.