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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Students led by NU Community Not Cops gathered at Fountain Square in October demanding the abolition of University Police.

Northwestern forms new Community Safety Advisory Board chaired by Prof. Clyde Yancy

November 13, 2020

Northwestern is forming a new Community Safety Advisory Board in response to recent advocacy globally and at NU to rethink policing. The board will meet monthly and Feinberg Prof. Clyde Yancy will serve...

Wednesday’s action sought to continue the tradition of Black and Asian solidarity in mobilizing for the abolition of prisons and policing.

Kaibigan, APAC join NUCNC, stand in solidarity with movement to abolish NUPD

November 12, 2020

For their 31st day of daily actions to abolish University Police, NU Community Not Cops collaborated with the Asian Pacific American Coalition and Kaibigan, the Philippine-American student association,...

A sign from a previous NUCNC demonstration. NUCNC co-hosted a teach-in Tuesday with FMO on the history of prison abolition.

NUCNC and FMO host teach-in on the history of prison abolition

November 11, 2020

NU Community Not Cops collaborated with For Members Only to host a teach-in Tuesday on the oppressive nature of the US prison system and the need for its abolition. The teach-in, attended by over 100...

 Police officers at a Nov. 10 NUCNC protest. The group released an open letter to Evanston residents Wednesday explaining the movement’s motivations and history.

NUCNC, student protesters eating “breakfast” and reading abolitionist literature met with unprecedented police presence

November 10, 2020

Student protesters demanding the abolition of University Police were met with a heavy police presence Monday — armed police in riot gear from the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System’s Mobile Field...

Armed NIPAS officers at an NU Community Not Cops protest. Human Services Committee members discussed the city’s relationship with NIPAS in a Monday meeting.

NUCNC partners with NU Dissenters to discuss militarism at NU

November 8, 2020

NU Community Not Cops partnered with the NU chapter of Dissenters, an anti-militarism youth movement, for a Sunday teach-in on the intersections between policing and militarism on NU’s campus. At...

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