The students and the Faculty of California and La Nación organized protests coordinated on Thursday to collectively reject what they see the attacks of the Trump administration against higher education.
In the area of the Great Bay, demonstrations that protest the federal clippings of funds and more toks at Stanford University, the State University of California – East Bay, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley and the San José State University.
“This is a problem that goes beyond the problems of academic freedom,” said Robert Reich, former secretary of Labor and current public policy professor at UC Berkeley, in the University demonstration on Thursday. “It goes to the central meaning of freedom in this country. That regime will serve.
The National Day of Action occurs when the Trump administration has presented several executive orders and policies aimed at higher education, ranging from Revoking international visas of students and cut research funds to take energetic measures Transgender athlete participation and Opening research on alleged anti -Semitism in campus, including Cite hundreds or members of the Faculty At the University of California.
The administration has threatened to retain the funds of elite universities if they do not meet the demands: the threats that Trump officials have overcome when cutting $ 400 million in federal funds from Columbia University And more recently, freezing $ 2 billion at Harvard University After university officials refused to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, prohibit masks in campus protests and change admission policies.
Hundreds gathered Thorsday in the Sprooul Square of UC Berkeley, the birthplace of the movement of freedom of expression. The students and the Faculty held posters with the student of the Student of the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested by immigration officers at his home at Columbia University last month on his role in the protests against the Warcia de Israel-Ahamas, a prison of Salvadoran de War Landfo All-Landfo. A variety of signs and banners that said “education, does not censors”, “Don’t Cave, cuts kill” and “freedom to learn and protest” said what was motivating people to appear.
Caden Payne, a Junior of UC Berkeley who studies data science, said he had never been in a protest, but felt it was important to attend the demonstration.
“The threatening cuts to research for organizations fighting climate change affects people like me doing an important job,” Payne said. “It is important to have the power of people who join as a group. We may not be powerful individually, but we are when we join.”
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“Everything that I think is under assault,” said Paschel, who took out his class in the classroom and Sprooul Plaza to witness the demonstration. “What makes me feel hopeful and gives me energy is that this is a place where you can find the community in courage. It is a place where you want to feel just fighting and it is a place where it will always be a sustained resistance of a child.”
At San José State University, more than 100 educators, students and local and state leaders gathered to defend academic freedom, freedom of expression and diversity. The members of the Faculty Association of California also asked the State to provide additional funds for California universities following Trump’s fund cuts.
The state professor of San José, Amanda Smith, said that Thorsday served as an opportunity to “plant the seed” so that students and the faculty feel empowered to speak against Trump’s actions, while the teacher and poet Anne F. Walker Saint felt that it was for her colleagues to protest for protesting for her colleagues to protest her colleagues to protest her colleagues to her colleagues to her colleagues to her colleagues to her colleagues colleagues. deportation or trial.
“I am a middle -aged white woman at the end of a teaching career. I have more protections than many people,” Walker said. “For me to be here is important … for the people who cannot. I don’t want to be in a situation where we can no longer speak.”
Karen Reyes, a last year student in the state of San José, said Thursday that it was the first time he protested since he protested for the victory for Trump’s first period in 2016. He said that the class was lost to attend the demonstration because the sheet did not fight against an education. “
“Our current president wants us not to have education so we can become what they want to be,” said Reyes.
The San José Assembly, Alex Lee, asked Governor Gavin Newsom to face Trump’s “harassment”, praising the governor of Maine Janet Mills for his refusal to fulfill an executive order that prohibits the transgender athletes of women’s sports. The Trump MAINE headquarters for the move earlier this week. (In March, Newsom said in his podcast that it was “deeply unfair” that transgender athletes participated in girls’ sports).
Despite Trump’s retaliation actions against universities and leaders who refuse to meet their demands, educators said they refused to be afraid of silence.
“We are here because the entire complete society is under attack,” said Chris Cox, professor of sociology in the state of San José. “The Royal Agenda (Trump) is basically creating a society where people have no capacity to defend themselves.”
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