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DeLauro Doubles Down On Ukraine Support After Zelenskyy Meeting
New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, issued a pitch to un-stall renewed U.S. military aid to Ukraine after participating in a Capitol Hill meeting...
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Crash Guv’s Speech
SCSU officer escorts protester from Chamber breakfast forum. Gov. Ned Lamont was beginning to tout Connecticut’s economy to a banquet hall of New Haven business leaders Wednesday morning when a dozen...
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Elicker: Ceasefire Resolution "Simplifies A Complex Issue"
It didn’t “concern” Mayor Justin Elicker that protesters shouted down his annual “State of the City” address Monday night, he said.“I am a little bit concerned about the dialogue,” he said. “I don’t...
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State Of The City Meets State Of The World
Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers to protesters... for 30 minutes: "I will meet with you afterwards." Inside the board chambers. Video by Nora Grace-Flood A mayor’s vision of a booming city...
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New Haven Remembers Navalny
Navalny. A symbolic empty seat was left at a New Haven gathering last year for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny — and he’ll continue to be remembered here now that he has died in...
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Ceasefire Hearing Set For May 1
Ceasefire advocates protesting at the Feb. 5 Board of Alders meeting. New Haveners with strong feelings about the war in Gaza will get the chance to weigh in at a virtual public hearing about a...
View ArticleUNITE HERE Calls For Gaza Ceasefire, Hostage Release
UNITEHERE, the parent of Yale’s politically powerful union locals, issued a statement Thursdsay calling on all hostages to be released and all fighting to stop in Gaza.The progressive union’s leaders...
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Gaza Protesters Arrested At Union Station
Thursday night's Union Station protest. (Updated) Transit police said they arrested nine protesters at Union Station during a demonstration against U.S. support for military aid to Israel.The protest...
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Yale Grad Students To Go On Hunger Strike
Friday's press conference outside Sterling library. Twelve Yale graduate students will go on a hunger strike starting Saturday in an effort to pressure the university to divest from weapons...
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Unlike At Columbia, Yale Protesters Not Arrested
At Friday's encampment and protest in Beinecke Plaza. Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters gathered in Yale’s Beinecke Plaza Friday night, and — unlike on Columbia’s campus the day before — none were...
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Protesters Leave Street; No Further Arrests
Protesters out of the street, back on Yale's campus, at around 5:45. (Updated at 5:59 p.m.) The streets around Yale’s downtown campus are back open now that pro-Palestinian protesters who had blocked...
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Refugee Won't Forget Kabul's Fall
Hossna Samadi. “Twenty years of women’s hopes and dreams collapsed in one day.” That’s how New Havener and Afghan refugee Hossna Samadi described the 2021 fall of Kabul.She wasn’t in her home country...
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Vigil Uncovers Humanity Amidst Violence
Margaret Olin and Josh Weinstein ... ... at Friday afternoon's "humanity vigil" at Yale. There were no flags at Friday afternoon’s “humanity vigil” on Yale’s downtown campus.There were only people —...
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Pro-Palestinian Protest Fills Downtown Streets
At Sunday's protest on Chapel Street and (below) the Green. More than 1,500 pro-Palestinian protesters from across the state on Sunday marched downtown in the latest mass public demonstration of...
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2nd Yale Encampment Cleared
Yale facilities workers remove empty tents ... ... after Yale PD issued dispersal warnings early Tuesday morning. (Updated 8:12 a.m., Tuesday, April 30, with university comment) Yale and city police...
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Alders Don't Adopt Ceasefire Resolution
Protesters rally outside City Hall ... ... before filling the Aldermanic Chamber for Monday's vote. The Board of Alders voted not to adopt a proposed resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday...
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Marchand: Ceasefire Resolution Was "Flawed Beyond Repair"
Westville Alder Adam Marchand. The following “Legislative Update” email was sent by Westville Alder Adam Marchand to constituents Tuesday morning, explaining why he voted with a majority of his Board...
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World Food Bazaar Brings Fiery Flavors
Naseema, Aminah, Astou, and Adila serving their dishes on the Green. “The word ‘refugee’ hurts,” said Aminah Alsaleh, “it means you don’t have a home.”As she served yalanji — vegetarian stuffed grape...
View ArticleDeLauro Skips Netanyahu Speech
Skip the political theater. Focus on human lives at riskThat was the thrust of New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s explanation for skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech...
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Hiroshima Bombing Remembered On The Green
City Peace Commissioners Millie Grenough and Paul Bloom, at Tuesday's vigil. On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, a half dozen American aircraft arrived and hovered over Hiroshima, Japan. They included...
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