NEWS BRIEFS: Rutgers Professor Has Life Threatened, Initially Blocked From Leaving U.S.

August 29, 2017 by Melville House

FROM THE GUARDIAN: “Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism has left the US, a day after he was blocked from boarding a flight to Spain, following a White House event where Donald Trump promised ‘very threatening’ steps against antifa activists. Mark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at the university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark Airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.” Read more here.

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