Canada Goose
Student Activists Raise Awareness About Cruel Canada Goose Practices
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The demonstrators hoped that those who currently own Canada Goose products never buy from them again and donate the detachable coyote-fur trim of their coats.
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Ex-Fellow Cites ‘White Supremacy’ As Reason for Removal From Alliance for Science Program. Cornell Says They Disrupted Learning
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After over a month of back and forth, Cornell’s Alliance for Science asked one of its fellows, Julia Feliz, to leave on Oct. 15, citing them as a continued interruption to the program. Feliz called the program racist.
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Environmentalist and Human Rights Protestors Disrupt Trustees Meeting, Demand Divestment
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Students slammed their palms and posters against the windows of the Friday afternoon Board of Trustees meeting in Myron Taylor Hall, chanting, “We won’t rest ’til you divest!”
Contractor
Large Inflatable Rat Cruises Campus in Union Protest Against North Campus Construction Excavators’ Wages
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“Scabby the Rats’ owners are the Upstate New York Operating Engineers Local 158 Union, who let him loose in an attempt to engage the University about how LRS Excavating, the subcontractor conducting the excavation of the North Campus Residential Expansion, may be paying its workers substandard wages.
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After Employee Demotion, Baristas and Activists Picket Outside Gimme! Coffee Store
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Armed with signs, chants and plenty of free coffee, employees of Gimme! Coffee gathered last Friday outside the Cayuga Street store of the famous coffee shop chain to protest what they contend to be the wrongful demotion of an employee.
Protest
Downtown Street Blocked in ‘Die-In’ Demonstration Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism
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The case of two black residents that began with a controversial arrest in April has brought national debates on police brutality and systemic racism home to Ithaca.
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Hundreds of Cornellians March for Global Climate Strike
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The march, one of over 4,000 protests occurring this week for the Global Climate Strike, called for divestment from fossil fuels and a federal Green New Deal, among other reforms.
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Amazon Rainforest Fire Sparks Climate Protest at ClubFest
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Cornell Students for Animal Rights and Cornell Vegan Society stood in solidarity outside of Barton Hall during Sunday’s ClubFest, bearing signs of “Burning the Amazon is Genocide” and “Take Action” to protest the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
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Student Assembly Urges Divestment from Construction of Observatory on ‘Sacred’ Hawaiian Mountain
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The Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday that would call upon Cornell to urge an association of universities to divest from the construction of an observatory on Hawaii’s indigenous lands.
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Ithaca Commons Arrests of Two Young Black Residents Will Continue to Trials, as Protesters Call for Dropped Charges and Reparations
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Both Ithacans charged said that they hadn’t expected their cases to go to trial. In the meantime, a community movement has risen up around them both.