Thanks to @steveahlquist.bsky.social for capturing our amazing, insightful, deliberative students' words. I want to live in the future these young people will build, not the one in which their elders make decisions based on fear. Our RIC students inspire me, & their voices deserve to be listened to.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Stop Charter Expansion: Pass the Moratorium and Cap Reduction. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
It’s #401Gives! Donate to the RIC FAST Fund because financial emergencies shouldn't stop a student's education.
Every dollar stays right here in RI to help students stay in school. The FAST Fund is run by faculty, not administrators, making us nimble and effective.
Give: fastfundric.wixsite.com/fast
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"When public dollars leave district schools, the impact is real – larger class sizes, fewer programs, less stability for educators, and and budget shortfalls for cities already under strain." Learn more & contact Governor McKee here:
Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs.
Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis.
Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students:
@newschoolaaup.bsky.social
It's time we ensured that all workers have the right to collectively bargain, regardless of where we live. Solidarity means collective action, not sympathy.
Recordings of class, other than those done as disability accommodations & kept for only personal use, should be understood as violations of intellectual property law just as recordings of live theatre are. It's time we changed the law to protect faculty intellectual property.
URI doesn't have urban police stationed close to campus. & by the way, the Brown shooting shows that armed police don't solve the problem of campus violence. Our students already have to fear being shot by ICE agents; they should not have to fear getting shot by the people we pay to keep them safe.
There are no words. May all those impacted by the violence of the past day experience a complete healing of body and spirit, and may we find a path forward in which our children do not have to live in fear of bullets.
Giving Tuesday is coming up fast (12/2) and FAST Fund RIC needs your help. Donate now: givebutter.com/RhodeIslandC...
Don't let an overdue car insurance bill or a broken laptop stop a student at Rhode Island College from earning their degree.
#BelieveinStudents #GivingTuesday #FASTFund
@pvdcitycouncil.bsky.social is considering charging fees to landlords who rent to students, thinking of students as people from elsewhere who are using our city services. But students here at @rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social are people from right here in our community. Their housing costs shouldn't
The last several days have demonstrated that we need a stronger labor movement to protect worker’s free speech rights
The First Amendment still exists, and Rhode Island needs to act quickly and firmly to protect the rights of our public employees to participate in civic life & speech.
How can we ensure the academic success & mental wellbeing of students who rely on transit to get around?
If @RIPTA.com’s proposed service cuts move forward, many students will be left without reliable transit. Mental health matters. Attendance matters. Transit matters too. 🚌📚
Three people dressed in rainbow pride gear and with t-shirts that say "Union Strong" and have a rainbow fist standing in front of a brick wall.
AFT members from RIC Union Strong at Providence Pride!
RIC/AFT at No Kings Providence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwH5...
A woman wearing a blue AFT shirt, sunglasses, and a brown cardigan holding hiking poles stands on the side of the road near a picket line of folks wearing purple and waving yellow SEIU flags.
RIC/AFT walking the line with the SEIU folks at Butler hospital.
labor movement, to rededicate yourselves to building that world. A world where all of us have enough. A world where all of us have the freedom to learn and think and speak our conscience. A world where there is bread but also roses.
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We rise today as education workers, but we fight for a world in which our ability to work is not what determines whether we have the opportunity to learn.
It is not up to us to finish the task of repairing this world, but neither may we desist from it. So today, I call on you, my siblings in the
rather than as full-fledged humans. Sure, getting a job that pays a living wage is a reason people seek higher education, but it is not the reason higher education exists. These fields are where students turn to find art and love and beauty–the love of learning, the beauty of self-actualization.
academic programs in fields like modern languages, art history, creative writing, gender studies, and global studies (along with some teacher certification programs), to name a few. Cutting fields like these is just another entry on a long ledger of actions in which people are positioned as workers
sufficient to build that world. When they sang about bread and roses, they articulated the importance of a good life, a life in which art and love and beauty are important alongside a fair wage. That is what we continue to fight for today.
At Rhode Island College this spring, administrators cut 20
in the kinds of depersonalization and fragmentation that make it possible for us to see human beings as the other. These ordinary virtues help us remember the world we want to build.
The working women who marched before us over a century ago knew that money & even fair working conditions were not
It is we who have to save ourselves. Doing so does not necessarily require some kind of superhuman heroism. But it does require, in the words of the great thinker Tzvetan Todorov, ordinary virtues like caring & dignity: caring for those around us, building ties of connection, & refusing to engage
years ago, we will stand strong against this threat.
The “we” in that sentence has to be all of us. I hear all too often questions about who is standing up for faculty, who is standing up for working people, who is standing up for democracy. And the answer cannot be to wait for someone to save us.
school teachers’ First Amendment rights and restricted even freedom of thought. Today, we face a nation that similarly questions our integrity as teachers, intruding into our minds and our classrooms in search of a more homogeneous and pliable population. But like our students and colleagues sixty
A person in a blue shirt and brown pants stands at a podium with a microphone on the grass in front of a sign that says "Resist" and a cityscape.
RIC/AFT at yesterday's May Day rally. Our remarks (🧵):
"Just a few years before our union was established, folks at RIC, along with those at URI and Brown, worked to abolish a loyalty pledge for public school teachers. It is students who first challenged this pledge, which sharply reduced public
A person in a blazer and face mask sitting at a desk with a chronic reading "Capitol TV House Committee on Finance | Subcommittee on Education Room 35 Rhode Island State House"
RIC/AFT testifying at RI House Finance tonight
A person in a face mask and a blazer sitting at a table with a chyron saying "Capitol TV Senate Committee on Finance, Room 211, Rhode Island State House, Tuesday, March 25, 2025."
RIC/AFT testifying tonight in RI Senate Finance on behalf of funding for RIC.
