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HUCTW* Rank & File Movement

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TODAY! Starting soon!

April 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM

HUCTW* Rank & File Movement

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✊❤️ Lovely example of antiracist multinational working class solidarity across borders. Israel Cervantes in Mexico and Sean Crawford in Michigan fight their real enemies who are not each other. Lessons for every struggle 🦋❤️🇵🇸

www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/uaw...

“What About the Capitalists?”: Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs

As workers brace for uncertainty and fallout from Trump’s tariffs, we hear from two autoworkers, one in Mexico and one in the United States. Israel Cervantes, founder of the National Independent Union...

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April 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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Indivisible Mass Coalition

@maindivisible.bsky.social

We're excited to be one of the organizers for today's #HandsOffBoston Rally & March, but if you can't make it to Boston, please join one of the more than 50 other #HandsOff rallies happening across Massachusetts today!

Get information on one near you here: indivisible-ma.org/calendar/

#mapoli

Map of Massachusetts with the locations of the April 5 Hands Off rallies across the state listed on our website calendar: https://indivisible-ma.org/calendar/

April 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Swing Blue Alliance

@swingbluealliance.org

Climbing up from Park Street station to join the Hands Off rally on Boston Common .

👉 #HandsOff

April 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)

April 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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Enigma8750

@enigma8750.bsky.social

BOSTON MASS. 05042025 HANDS OFF ELON.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Boston to take part in the "Hands Off!" rally. It's one of 1,200 other protests unfolding in all 50 states across the country today.

April 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM

HUCTW* Rank & File Movement

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Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC

All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...

www.ilrc.org

April 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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Harvard Academic Workers

@haw-uaw.bsky.social

Our statement in response to the Trump administration's attack on Harvard, together with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social, the Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union, the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, and @huctw-rankandfile.bsky.social.

Header centered at top, in Crimson text: Our Resolve

Statement beginning in black text:
We all know that Harvard is not perfect. We, the workers who fulfill this University’s core teaching and research missions, consistently strive and organize to better this institution.

We also know that the Trump administration’s attack on Harvard has nothing to do with antisemitism. Simply put, this is an assault on learning, academic freedom, and critical inquiry. Destroying the good that Harvard does by cutting its federal funding will not address antisemitism on campus. If anything, weaponizing allegations of antisemitism as a transparent pretext for destroying American higher education—threatening life-saving research, outstanding teaching, and cutting-edge innovation—only causes more harm to our Jewish colleagues, members, and students.

Institutions of higher education, including Harvard, do good in society. We work here because we believe in educating future generations who will continue to build a better world. We work here because we believe in the importance of research conducted to benefit the public, not to turn a profit. And we work here because we believe that this institution has the potential and the will to become a place where everyone, regardless of background or belief, can succeed.

Our resolve is to continue this work of the University—together. In the face of this multifaceted political attack, we will resist authoritarian intimidation by continuing our research and teaching, and by organizing in solidarity with one another. We call on the University administration to resist this intimidation with us, marshalling Harvard’s considerable resources and power to fulfill the promise of the University’s vital mission.

Signed,
Harvard Academic Workers Organizing Committee
Harvard Graduate Student Union
Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union
AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter
HUCTW Rank & File Movement

April 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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SEIU Local 509

@seiu509.bsky.social

SEIU MA State Council Denounces Detention of Tufts Graduate Student & SEIU 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk. Read more here: www.seiu509.org/seiu-massachusetts-state-council-denounces-detention-of-tufts-graduate-student-and-seiu-509-member-rumeysa-ozturk/

March 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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Rocío Sáenz

@seiusaenz.bsky.social

Lewelyn Dixon is a mother figure and her family's 'go-to'. She came here at 14yo and has been contributing to her community and our economy as a lawful permanent resident of 50 years. As a union, we stand with her and will fight for justice. Take action with us!

SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚨An SEIU 925 member at UWMC has been in ICE detention since March after being denied re-entry from the Philippines.

UW must do more: protect workers’ jobs if they’re detained, allow leave for immigration proceedings & educate employees on rights.

Sign here: bit.ly/uw-protectimmigrants

March 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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SEIU Healthcare 1199NW

@seiu1199nw.bsky.social

We gathered at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma yesterday to show our solidarity and demand the release of our detained union siblings. In this moment, it’s more important than ever to take care of each other and defend our immigrant coworkers. An injury to one is an injury to all.

March 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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iAmerica

@iamerica.org

Lewelyn has been a green card holder for 50yrs. She is currently in ICE detention after reentering the U.S. following a family trip to the Philippines. Join her union @seiu925.bsky.social in demanding her employer do more to protect her: bit.ly/uw-protectimmigrants
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March 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM

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Student Workers of Columbia

@swcolumbia.bsky.social

Columbia labor FIGHTS BACK!
No research cuts. No ICE. No censorship. No layoffs.

Thursday Mar. 27 at 12pm Low Steps

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March 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM

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Kirsten Weld

@kirstenweld.bsky.social

Powerful lawsuit, filed today, against the Trump administration's abhorrent policy of ideological deportation. @aaup.bsky.social, MESA, and AAUP chapters at Harvard, NYU, and Rutgers are co-plaintiffs: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...