From our colleagues at the Graduate Employees’ Organization at the University of Michigan (GEO-AFT Local 3550):
On June 10, 2026 between 7 and 8:30am, FBI agents, state police, local police officers, and the University of Michigan Police Department conducted a coordinated raid and arrest of 8 activists across Ann Arbor, Canton, Milwaukee, and Chicago. The FBI and local police violently raided all of the major locations, leaving the Ypsilanti location’s doors and windows damaged. Personal belongings of the targeted residents were also seized during final examinations.
Urgently needed funds will be used for legal costs, defense campaign costs, mutual aid for activists facing charges (replacements for stolen devices, fixing the police’s vandalism of their homes, emergency relief, food, necessities, etc.), and filling the jailed defendant’s commissary for calls.