University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among the latest campuses to witness police action linked to the war in Gaza.
In Cambridge, police in riot gear dismantled a Pro-Palestinian encampment on the MIT campus early this morning. At least 10 students were arrested. It was a similar scene at Penn in Philadelphia.
In Tucson last night, campus police tear-gassed protestors and tore down their encampment.
Matthew Bowler is an award-winning journalist from San Diego. Bowler comes from a long line of San Diego journalists. Both his father and grandfather worked as journalists covering San Diego. He is also a third generation San Diego State University graduate, where he studied art with a specialty in painting and printmaking. Bowler moved to the South of France after graduating from SDSU. While there he participated in many art exhibitions. The newspaper “La Marseillaise” called his work “les oeuvres impossible” or “the impossible works.” After his year in Provence, Bowler returned to San Diego and began to work as a freelance photographer for newspapers and magazines. Some years later, he discovered his passion for reporting the news, for getting at the truth, for impacting lives. Bowler is privileged to have received many San Diego Press Club Awards along with two Emmy's.
Tyrone Turner is WAMU’s visuals editor. In that role, Turner pursues his own photo and video journalism as well as leads the newsroom in improving its visual storytelling.Before taking this role, Turner worked as an award-winning freelance photographer with clients such as National Geographic, The New York Times and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His projects have taken him around the world, though much of his recent work has centered on his native New Orleans and the issues of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina and the disappearing wetlands of coastal Louisiana.From 1998- 2000, Turner and his wife were fellows with the Institute of Current World Affairs in Brazil, writing and photographing about social issues there. In 2003 he was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to look at juveniles tried as adults. In 2016, he was named a Virginia Museum of Fine Art Fellowship for a portrait and audio series called the “New Orleans Thread Project.”As an educator, Turner teaches photo workshops with National Geographic’s Photo Camp and is a fellow with the News Literacy Project.In addition to the WAMU website, his work can be seen at www.tyronefoto.com.