{"id":2240491,"date":"2024-05-08T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cori-bush-compares-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-to-womens-suffrage-movement\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:59:22","slug":"cori-bush-compares-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-to-womens-suffrage-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cori-bush-compares-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-to-womens-suffrage-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cori Bush likens pro-Palestinian campus protests to women&#8217;s suffrage movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcori-bush-compares-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-to-womens-suffrage-movement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2240491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ioc-president-will-not-add-fuel-to-summer-olympics-cancellation-rumors\/\" title=\"IOC president will \u2018not add fuel\u2019 to Summer Olympics cancellation rumors\">joint press conference<\/a>, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) likened pro-Palestinian campus protests to the women&#8217;s suffrage movement. She praised the demonstrators, drawing parallels to significant historical protest movements. Rep. Bush and\u2064 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) \u200dspoke at the\u200b conference alongside George Washington \u2064University students. \u2063Your provided summary perfectly captures the \u200dessence of Rep. Cori Bush and Rep.\u200b Rashida Tlaib&#8217;s joint press conference, highlighting \u200dRep. Bush&#8217;s comparison\u2064 of\u200d pro-Palestinian campus protests to the women&#8217;s suffrage \u200cmovement. The mention of\u200c their praise for demonstrators and\u2064 the presence of George Washington University students\u2063 adds depth to the event description.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cori-bush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Cori Bush\">Cori Bush<\/a> (D-MO) compared pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations with the women\u2019s suffrage movement.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint press conference with Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rashida-tlaib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rashida Tlaib\">Rashida Tlaib<\/a> (D-MI), Bush heaped praise on campus protesters across the country, comparing them to several major protest movements across history, including those for suffrage and against the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), accompanied by George Washington University students, speak during a news conference at the Capitol, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cProtest isn\u2019t meant to be comfortable,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is meant to be disruptive. And if you don\u2019t want folks to protest, then prioritize humanity over profit, humanity over your donors, humanity over your property. This is how justice is won, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was true during the women\u2019s suffrage movement where young women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed, which led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt was true during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-snaps-at-civil-rights-leaders-in-leaked-call\/\" title=\"Biden Snaps at Civil Rights Leaders in Leaked Call\">civil rights movement<\/a> when students led freedom riots, lunch counter sit-ins, and boycotts, which culminated in the Civil Rights Act of \u201964 and the Voting Rights Act of \u201965.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was true during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gwu-students-occupy-building-entrance-in-pro-palestinian-protest-while-taunted-by-aim-billboard\/\" title=\"GWU students protest for Palestine at entrance, taunted by AIM billboard\">student-led movement<\/a> against the Vietnam War when organizing at universities, the movement to resist the draft, and the youth-led nationwide movement. Those protests led to the end of the war, and campaigns to divest from South Africa by students led to the end of apartheid,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Bush also said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza and condemned the attitudes of police and lawmakers toward the college protesters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The past few months have seen the largest student protests since the Vietnam War, this time over the war in Gaza. Many of them have culminated in violence between protesters and counterprotesters or police. Riot police have staged high-profile raids against encampments at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles, after their respective situations escalated.<\/p>\n<p>Despite many being forcibly shut down by police across the country, campus protests and encampments continue to operate across the country, bringing many school operations, such as commencement ceremonies, to a halt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) likened pro-Palestinian campus protests to the women&#8217;s suffrage movement. In a press conference with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Bush commended campus demonstrators, drawing parallels to historical protest movements like suffrage and anti-Vietnam War movements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2240492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24129742838989-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24129742838989-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}