From our colleagues at Crimson Courage & allied labor organizations:
Monday July 21 at 12:00 PM at Moakley Federal Courthouse, Northern Avenue, Seaport District at 1 Courthouse Way (By MBTA, go to South Station on the Red Line and change to the Silver Line and go 1 stop to Courthouse, going towards the Airport)
Speakers include:
- Caleb Thompson, Harvard student; President, Harvard Undergraduate Association
- Professor Walter Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H., Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
- Professor John Quackenbush, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Kirsten Weld, Professor of History; President, Harvard Chapter of American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- Patty Nolan, Harvard alumna, Cambridge City Councilor
- Tasha Williams, Vice President, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers
- Carlos Aramayo, President, UNITE HERE Local 26
- Kelsey Tyssowski, Postdoctoral Researcher, Hoekstra Lab; Harvard Academic Workers Union
- Anurima Bhargava, Crimson Courage, Coordinator of the Amicus Brief
- Jack Mills, Harvard alumnus; Co-chair, Volunteer Committee, Crimson Courage
- Lew Finfer, Harvard alumnus; Co-chair, Crimson Courage
- James McAffrey, Harvard student; Co-chair, Harvard Students for Freedom
President Trump has chosen Harvard as the test case for whether the Trump Administration can control what is taught, who teaches it, and who can be admitted to study at our universities. This unprecedented attack has included cut off of almost $3 billion in research grants in vital areas like infectious disease and public health.
The Trump administration has sent a letter to Harvard’s President Garber saying that the school has “failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment” and demanding that the university change its governance, adopt merit-based hiring, shutter any DEI programs and allow “audits” to ensure “viewpoint diversity.”
Two cases are being heard July 21 by Judge Allison Burroughs:
President and Fellows of Harvard College v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Learn more about the case here) *Crimson Courage played a leading role in gathering the 12,041 alumni signatories to the amicus brief filed on behalf of Harvard alumni for this case. We thank the many other groups that adding signatories by publicizing the brief.
American Association of University Professors, Harvard Chapter (AAUP) v. U.S. Department of Justice (Learn more about the case here)
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