Pro-Palestine protest

Eight pro-Palestine protesters the University of Michigan fired are suing to get their jobs back. The university says they broke campus rules banning violence, while the protesters argue the move is retaliation for their calls for U of M to cut ties with Israel.

A conversation with Josiah Walker, a U of M student and pro-Palestinian activist who says that he was followed and surveilled by undercover investigators hired by the university. Also, a West Michigan school resource coordinator discusses the rise homelessness among students.

The University of Michigan announced it will sever ties from private companies with plainclothes investigators. A UM student shares what happened in an interaction with a suspected surveillance agent.

A conversation with Josiah Walker, a U of M student and pro-Palestinian activist who says that he was followed and surveilled by undercover investigators hired by the university. Also, a West Michigan school resource coordinator discusses the rise homelessness among students.

The University of Michigan is cutting ties with plainclothes security firms after allegations they surveilled pro-Palestinian student activists.

The dismissals for those charged in relation to a “Festifall” protest mean that all 11 of the pro-Palestinian protesters charged by the state attorney general have now been cleared.