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Darius Sias gives a thumbs up to student protesters after seeing his daughter graduate during Yale’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 20, 2024. He said the demonstrations against the war in Gaza reminds him of protests he participated in when he was in college against apartheid in South Africa. “We did the same thing. If enough people stay together, things will happen,” Sias said.
Ryan Caron King
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Connecticut Public
The demonstration was the latest in an ongoing series of actions calling on Yale University to divest from weapons manufacturers supplying Israel with arms in its ongoing war in Gaza.
A row of three-story buildings sit on a street with snow on it and some cars in Boston.
Robin Lubbock / WBUR
Homes and buildings produce the second highest global warming emissions in New England, after transportation. Efforts like greener building techiques, renewable energy systems and home weatherization could help.