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Students & higher ed workers are rising up on May Day!

Join higher ed workers for a mass call on Wed, April 22 at 8pm ET to learn how students & higher ed workers are organizing for freedom, affordability & safety across the country this May Day.

Bernie Sanders will join & speak in solidarity!

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Contact: Dr. Leonard Bright President, AAUP-CS
 
Strong Student, Faculty, and Community Turnout Marks Successful AAUP-Sponsored Event at Rudder Plaza.

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Make college affordable. Fund research. Protect faculty's right to teach and students' right to learn. Expand workers' rights.

These are core pillars of AAUP and AFT's national policy platform, the Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education.

@aft.org
@afthighered.bsky.social

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We appreciate all of the library workers that keep our libraries running smoothly! In school libraries, library assistants keep the engines running day to day! We thank you! @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

TODAY!
Inviting students at Texas Tech University to learn about the escalating campus censorship policies and share any of their experiences under them with Antonio Ingram and other NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorneys.

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking - Inside Climate News Yuvelis Morales Blanco, 24, helped halt fracking along Colombia’s largest river and one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. She’s faced death threats and exile for her advocacy.

This year’s Goldman Environmental Prize cohort is the first in the award's history to be composed entirely of women. Among the recipients is Colombian activist Yuvelis Morales Blanco, recognized for her grassroots mobilization against fracking.

Today!

Rally for Academic Freedom at Texas A&M!

#BTHOcensorship

The Faculty Are the Problem, Apparently | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for.

“Most Harvard faculty do not seek an adversarial relationship with their employer. Will that change if our administration continues to treat the faculty as adversaries?“

By our intrepid @aaup.org chapter president, @kirstenweld.bsky.social 🔥

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Texas Starbucks Workers Have Learned the Power of Organizing “We have an in everywhere. It's not hard to talk to other people that do the same thing that you do on a daily basis, and oftentimes they have the same grievances that you do."

573 baristas in 29 Starbucks stores in Texas are unionized. And it’s growing. @sbworkersunited.org
www.texasobserver.org/contract-neg...

As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Texas Starbucks Workers Have Learned the Power of Organizing “We have an in everywhere. It's not hard to talk to other people that do the same thing that you do on a daily basis, and oftentimes they have the same grievances that you do."

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social: It’s the fastest-growing union campaign in modern history. Workers at 29 Texas Starbucks stores have unionized since June 2022. Nationally, that figure stands at 582, out of nearly 17,000, according to a spokesperson at Starbucks Workers United.

'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.

Both are war crimes punishable under international law.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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album of the day - Nine Inch Noize from Nine Inch Nails and Boyz Noize

Harry Keyishian, Lead Plaintiff in Academic Freedom Case, Dies at 93

My friend and colleague, Harry Keyishian died recently: his refusal to sign a McCarthy-esque loyalty oath led to a major legal victory for academic freedom.

Big Oil Breaks Everything The planet, our democracy, our courts...

If you dig deep enough into the corruption of our democracy, down there at the bottom of the hole you find...a lot of oil
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

suddenly whole educational institutions are making up "AI" policies because "students use it already". idk man, students use smart phones, social media, various software, video games, and a billion other things that i wasn't forced to acknowledge, accommodate, or integrate in my teaching top down.

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album of the day - The Turnpike Troubadours from The Turnpike Troubadours

It’s obvious on reflection but bears occasional repeating that there’s no reason to think the ideological spectrum of professionally validated academic work should align with the contemporary political spectrum. Sometimes it’s left of it and sometimes right….

#LetUsTeach
#LetStudentsLearn

Also, as I've said before, the faculty at large community colleges could totally do the jobs that faculty at Yale do, and a lot of faculty at ivies could not do our jobs for a single semester.

For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

Islamic studies professor at San Antonio's Trinity University denied tenure, to file lawsuit Sajida Jalalzai alleges Trinity University denied her tenure based on discrimination. This story originally ran in the Trinitonian, Trinity University’s

Sajida Jalalzai alleges race discrimination and retaliation in tenure decision.

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This May Day, join higher ed workers across the nation and fight for an affordable and safe education that serves the common good. Learn more and register at www.labor4highered.org

#HandsOffHigherEd
#MayDayHigherEd
#HigherEdOverBillionaires
#DefendHigherEd

Janet Dudding on Instagram: "TAMU Civil Discourse Symposium Interesting choice of speakers: TX-28 Henry Cuellar, federally indicted & among #Trump’s 1800 pardons & TX-10 Congressman Michael McCau... 5 likes, 2 comments - janet4texas on April 15, 2026: "TAMU Civil Discourse Symposium Interesting choice of speakers: TX-28 Henry Cuellar, federally indicted & among #Trump’s 1800 pardons & TX-10 ...

TAMU Civil Discourse Symposium:

An observation from Janet Dudding (TX HD 14)

“Interesting choice of speakers:

TX-28 Henry Cuellar, federally indicted & among Trump’s 1800 pardons……

www.instagram.com/p/DXJ9MWsDlu...

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Don't worry everyone, the Free Press is on the case

Rally for Academic Freedom!

April 20 -- 300pm
Rudder Plaza, Texas A&M

#LetStudentsLearn
#BTHOcensorship

Florida creating high-school U.S. History class for college credit TALLAHASSEE – Some Florida high-school students could be sitting in new college-level American history classes next year, as the state is creating its own alternative to Advanced Placement courses.

COLLEGE IN HIGH SCHOOL IS A LIE www.chronicleonline.com/news/state/f...

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

We need to vote out Greg Abbott.

Let’s elect labor-endorsed candidates who will actually fight for Texas workers.

‘Accusations of ‘Indoctrination’ Were Nothing but an Excuse’: Texas Tech Roiled by Axing of Programs, Free Speech Lawsuit The shuttering of programs and disciplining of a student have free speech advocates rallying against Texas Tech University.

thebarbedwire.com/2026/04/14/t...

Union Now: Building the Labor Movement with Bernie, Sara Nelson, Zohran K. Mamdani. Terminal 5, 610 West 56th St, NY, Sunday, April 12. Doors 12p, Program 2p.

Hello Bluesky. Does anyone like... Unions? #UnionNow act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...