Higher ed workers are rising up this May Day!
Our shared demands are:
1️⃣Make higher ed affordable
2️⃣End the assault on science & research
3️⃣Protect students' right to learn & faculty's right to teach
4️⃣Suspend ICE activity on ALL campuses nationwide
Find your local action and RSVP here:
NEW today in the New York Times:
In the face of unprecedented authoritarian attacks, the AAUP is building a powerful and militant resistance movement in defense of American higher education, the freedom to learn, and our democracy.
Join Us!
When we talked back in January, @proftwolf.bsky.social told us about this new @aaup.org platform.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dg1...
It is really great to see it coming together - and especially inspirational to launch it in TX, ground zero for attacks on academic freedom. Check it out!
Scientists, check it out! (it's almost like your job depends on it...)
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Contact your Members of Congress TODAY and urge them to take immediate action to demand dignity for immigrants, and be in solidarity with the people in detention on hunger strike.
Senate: indivisible.org/acti...
House:
Trump’s detention camps are extremely unpopular everywhere they’ve been proposed, but many people don’t realize DHS is planning a concentration camp in their community.
That’s why we’ve put up billboards to let local residents know there’s a proposed or existing detention camp nearby.
Trump lost in court to E. Jean Carroll. A jury found him liable for sexual abuse. Now his DOJ is reportedly opening a criminal investigation into her.
This is retaliation. We refuse to sit back while the Trump regime abuses survivors. Stand with survivors. Impeach Trump.
https://bit.ly/4uL7UPX
Life in California is expensive. It doesn't have to be. As Governor, I'll bring down the largest costs in people's budgets--like housing, education, and healthcare--to make it actually affordable to live here.
The Voting Rights Act has been essential to protecting everyone’s freedom to vote.
By destroying a key provision of the VRA that ensured Black voters were fairly represented, the Supreme Court today betrayed the legacy of the civil rights movement.
We won’t stop fighting.