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Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested
https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested
'This Is What Fascism Looks Like': Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested | Common Dreams
"This is about something much bigger," said the president of SEIU California, still in detention. "This is about how we
www.commondreams.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested
https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested
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DAVID IS RELEASED and with his family! He still faces an unjust felony charge.
While we’re relieved that David is out after three nights in detention, we demand the Trump regime drop the unjust charge against him & end the raids! seiu.co/endraids #FreeDavidEndRaids
While we’re relieved that David is out after three nights in detention, we demand the Trump regime drop the unjust charge against him & end the raids! seiu.co/endraids #FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
DAVID IS RELEASED and with his family! He still faces an unjust felony charge.
While we’re relieved that David is out after three nights in detention, we demand the Trump regime drop the unjust charge against him & end the raids! seiu.co/endraids #FreeDavidEndRaids
While we’re relieved that David is out after three nights in detention, we demand the Trump regime drop the unjust charge against him & end the raids! seiu.co/endraids #FreeDavidEndRaids
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The U.S. Department of State has been exercising a last-minute veto of applications to the prestigious Fulbright program on ideological grounds — often rejecting grants funded in part, or largely, by foreign countries, not the U.S. chroni.cl/3FrqPLr
Trump Administration’s Ideological Vetting of Fulbright Scholars Raises Alarm
The 11th-hour vetoes of grantees overrule foreign governments that jointly select and fund recipients of the prestigious scholarship.
chroni.cl
June 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The U.S. Department of State has been exercising a last-minute veto of applications to the prestigious Fulbright program on ideological grounds — often rejecting grants funded in part, or largely, by foreign countries, not the U.S. chroni.cl/3FrqPLr
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International Students Hit With Back-to-Back Orders
Trump issued two orders Wednesday night that could deal a major blow to international enrollment. One targets @harvard.edu; the other restricts travel from more than a dozen countries, raising... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kT1itw
Trump issued two orders Wednesday night that could deal a major blow to international enrollment. One targets @harvard.edu; the other restricts travel from more than a dozen countries, raising... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kT1itw
Trump Proclamations Escalate International Student Attacks
Trump issued two orders Wednesday night that could deal a major blow to international enrollment. One targets Harvard; the other restricts travel from more than a dozen countries, raising alarms acros...
bit.ly
June 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
International Students Hit With Back-to-Back Orders
Trump issued two orders Wednesday night that could deal a major blow to international enrollment. One targets @harvard.edu; the other restricts travel from more than a dozen countries, raising... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kT1itw
Trump issued two orders Wednesday night that could deal a major blow to international enrollment. One targets @harvard.edu; the other restricts travel from more than a dozen countries, raising... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kT1itw
Read our open letter from VCU faculty citing concern about the silencing of student voices and unlawful withholding of diplomas from student activists:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
May 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Read our open letter from VCU faculty citing concern about the silencing of student voices and unlawful withholding of diplomas from student activists:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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"Students, in daring to protest U.S. complicity, risk punishment, arrest, or in the case of noncitizens, deportation. Far from being safe havens from authoritarianism, college campuses are functioning as training grounds for it."
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
Williams: By punishing speech, VCU loses its moral compass
Students, in daring to protest U.S. complicity, risk punishment, arrest, or in the case of noncitizens, deportation. Far from being safe havens from authoritarianism, college campuses are functioning...
richmond.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Students, in daring to protest U.S. complicity, risk punishment, arrest, or in the case of noncitizens, deportation. Far from being safe havens from authoritarianism, college campuses are functioning as training grounds for it."
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
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BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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I should add that this happened between their initial warning and the police shutdown — which could have extended the time students were on the lawn.
May 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I should add that this happened between their initial warning and the police shutdown — which could have extended the time students were on the lawn.
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Usually punishment looks like community service or writing an essay, but one of the three — Sereen Haddad — has had policy violations before and could face something more severe this time like suspension/expulsion.
May 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Usually punishment looks like community service or writing an essay, but one of the three — Sereen Haddad — has had policy violations before and could face something more severe this time like suspension/expulsion.
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UPDATE: Three graduating seniors — leaders of the VCU SJP chapter — are having their degrees temporarily withheld over pending investigations for breaking VCU’s interim campus expression and space utilization policy.
Students were peacefully gathered on the anniversary of VCU's violent April
2024 Gaza solidarity encampment until police shut down the event and asked them to move to the "designated area for free speech." commonwealthtimes.org/2025/04/30/v...
2024 Gaza solidarity encampment until police shut down the event and asked them to move to the "designated area for free speech." commonwealthtimes.org/2025/04/30/v...
VCU student arrested in gathering echoing 2024 Gaza encampment
A peaceful gathering to “be together in community” on the anniversary of VCU’s violent April 2024 Gaza solidarity encampment unravelled into disarray after police told roughly 50 students they were tr...
commonwealthtimes.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
UPDATE: Three graduating seniors — leaders of the VCU SJP chapter — are having their degrees temporarily withheld over pending investigations for breaking VCU’s interim campus expression and space utilization policy.
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What is a safety ambassador?
VCU Students for Justice in Palestine, they say that the event is over. People still remain on the lawn but this event is "over."
April 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What is a safety ambassador?
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The minimum wage isn’t just low — it’s a trap.
$7.25 in 2025 will leave a full-time worker thousands of dollars below the poverty line.
Congress, raise the wage. Protect working people.
seiu.co/3EJtLTi
$7.25 in 2025 will leave a full-time worker thousands of dollars below the poverty line.
Congress, raise the wage. Protect working people.
seiu.co/3EJtLTi
The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025
In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (...
seiu.co
April 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The minimum wage isn’t just low — it’s a trap.
$7.25 in 2025 will leave a full-time worker thousands of dollars below the poverty line.
Congress, raise the wage. Protect working people.
seiu.co/3EJtLTi
$7.25 in 2025 will leave a full-time worker thousands of dollars below the poverty line.
Congress, raise the wage. Protect working people.
seiu.co/3EJtLTi
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Trump’s 100-Day War on Higher Ed
In his first few months in office, the president attacked higher education with dizzying frequency, confronting colleges and unraveling decades of federal policy. We look at 10 ways the administration has upended... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42yQ47c
In his first few months in office, the president attacked higher education with dizzying frequency, confronting colleges and unraveling decades of federal policy. We look at 10 ways the administration has upended... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42yQ47c
How Trump’s First 100 Days Transformed Higher Ed
In his first few months in office, the president attacked higher education with dizzying frequency, confronting colleges and unraveling decades of federal policy. We look at 10 ways the administration...
bit.ly
April 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Trump’s 100-Day War on Higher Ed
In his first few months in office, the president attacked higher education with dizzying frequency, confronting colleges and unraveling decades of federal policy. We look at 10 ways the administration has upended... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42yQ47c
In his first few months in office, the president attacked higher education with dizzying frequency, confronting colleges and unraveling decades of federal policy. We look at 10 ways the administration has upended... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42yQ47c
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For the rest of eternity, anyone who hires someone with DOGE on their resume is a traitor.
March 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
For the rest of eternity, anyone who hires someone with DOGE on their resume is a traitor.
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Students were peacefully gathered on the anniversary of VCU's violent April
2024 Gaza solidarity encampment until police shut down the event and asked them to move to the "designated area for free speech." commonwealthtimes.org/2025/04/30/v...
2024 Gaza solidarity encampment until police shut down the event and asked them to move to the "designated area for free speech." commonwealthtimes.org/2025/04/30/v...
VCU student arrested in gathering echoing 2024 Gaza encampment
A peaceful gathering to “be together in community” on the anniversary of VCU’s violent April 2024 Gaza solidarity encampment unravelled into disarray after police told roughly 50 students they were tr...
commonwealthtimes.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Students were peacefully gathered on the anniversary of VCU's violent April
2024 Gaza solidarity encampment until police shut down the event and asked them to move to the "designated area for free speech." commonwealthtimes.org/2025/04/30/v...
2024 Gaza solidarity encampment until police shut down the event and asked them to move to the "designated area for free speech." commonwealthtimes.org/2025/04/30/v...
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Register below for the first in a series of panel discussions co-sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal in Higher Ed, the Critical Legal Collective, & the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
Monday, April 28!
@sfndhe.bsky.social
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Monday, April 28!
@sfndhe.bsky.social
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Register below for the first in a series of panel discussions co-sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal in Higher Ed, the Critical Legal Collective, & the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
Monday, April 28!
@sfndhe.bsky.social
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Monday, April 28!
@sfndhe.bsky.social
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
RSVP for our 2025 May Day cookout is live! This year we're hosted at the Teamsters Union Hall. This annual event is family friendly, with plenty of food and drinks for central Va workers—let us know if you'll join us!
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RSVP for Union Fest
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April 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
RSVP for our 2025 May Day cookout is live! This year we're hosted at the Teamsters Union Hall. This annual event is family friendly, with plenty of food and drinks for central Va workers—let us know if you'll join us!
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"It’s no coincidence that the language of mobilization, defense, and alliances evokes times of war. We are under attack, and we are out-resourced. The only way we can stand fast is to stand together."
#academicsky
#academicsky
New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/04/10/l...
Letter Calls for Solidarity Against Threats to Funding for Brown
BY DENISE L. DAVIS As we at Brown University wait for the other shoe to drop, we are mobilizing in support of the university’s principles, as expressed by President Christina H. Paxson, and urging …
academeblog.org
April 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"It’s no coincidence that the language of mobilization, defense, and alliances evokes times of war. We are under attack, and we are out-resourced. The only way we can stand fast is to stand together."
#academicsky
#academicsky
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Understanding University Budgets. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Budgets are moral documents that reflect the politics and cultural values of institutions of higher education. For many academic workers and students, university budgets are difficult to “read,” analy...
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April 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Once again, elementary school staff are standing up to ICE while the wealthiest, most powerful universities in the country meekly hand students over to anyone who shows up in black balaclavas and an unmarked car
April 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Once again, elementary school staff are standing up to ICE while the wealthiest, most powerful universities in the country meekly hand students over to anyone who shows up in black balaclavas and an unmarked car
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The news comes days after the University of Virginia joined the growing list of U.S. colleges where the federal government under the Trump administration has canceled some international students' visas.
Visas revoked for three at VCU, nine at Virginia Tech, 10 at GMU
The news comes days after the University of Virginia joined the growing list of U.S. colleges where the federal government under the Trump administration has canceled some international students' visas.
richmond.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The news comes days after the University of Virginia joined the growing list of U.S. colleges where the federal government under the Trump administration has canceled some international students' visas.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a court order preventing his deportation to his native El Salvador over fears he'd face persecution from gangs.
Supreme Court says Trump administration must facilitate return of deported Maryland man
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a court order preventing his deportation to his native El Salvador over fears he'd face persecution from gangs.
richmond.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a court order preventing his deportation to his native El Salvador over fears he'd face persecution from gangs.
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Thirty faculty groups, including seventeen AAUP chapters, organized to join an amicus brief urging a preliminary injunction against ideological deportations of students and scholars
Filed in support of AAUP v. Rubio, the case filed by @aaup.bsky.social and @knightcolumbia.org, challenging Trump’s efforts to deport students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy.
knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v...
knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v...
American Association of University Professors v. Rubio
knightcolumbia.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thirty faculty groups, including seventeen AAUP chapters, organized to join an amicus brief urging a preliminary injunction against ideological deportations of students and scholars
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Free speech is a right, not a privilege.
When Rumeysa was detained for using her voice, it became an issue that impacts all of us.
This is bigger than one case—it’s about defending our right to organize, speak out, and live without fear. #4The1st seiu.co/3G2YsCX
When Rumeysa was detained for using her voice, it became an issue that impacts all of us.
This is bigger than one case—it’s about defending our right to organize, speak out, and live without fear. #4The1st seiu.co/3G2YsCX
April 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Free speech is a right, not a privilege.
When Rumeysa was detained for using her voice, it became an issue that impacts all of us.
This is bigger than one case—it’s about defending our right to organize, speak out, and live without fear. #4The1st seiu.co/3G2YsCX
When Rumeysa was detained for using her voice, it became an issue that impacts all of us.
This is bigger than one case—it’s about defending our right to organize, speak out, and live without fear. #4The1st seiu.co/3G2YsCX