We've updated Dirt in A Cog: Small Ways to Resist Facism that Make a Big Difference zine with a few new resources and additions. The zine is free and online for you to check out and share with others. Visit our website or link in bio to read this zine and all the others and go be dirt in the cog!

Chicago! No Neutrals There Join @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, and Nesreen Hasan for a conversation about US Labor, Zionism, & the Struggle for Palestine Tuesday, 11/11 at 6:30 CT Live at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social & streaming online RSVP to attend:

Good morning NYC! Are you ready?

Solidarity to all students & higher ed workers across the country standing up to build a better future today! #DefendHigherEd

🇵🇸Next CAHE's "Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination" series with @jvp.bsky.social and AAUP/AFT Local 6741 focuses on law and higher ed policy since 2023. Join us on 11/13!🇵🇸

Hell yes let’s gooooooo @ucaft.bsky.social

Tune in! Today at 1PM! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Starting in 15 minutes!

“I feel very strongly that we need to do all we can to stand against the notion that there is anything good about making compromises of the sort the Trump administration is asking universities to do." — Maria Bucur, AAUP Indiana University Bloomington

Today!

"Faculties, administrations, and governing boards must refuse to comply with unlawful federal government demands based on Title VI investigations that impinge on . . . faculty academic freedom . . . and freedom of expression of faculty members, students, and staff." www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...

The report is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations & private lawsuits against US colleges & universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Full Report here:

A new report published today by the AAUP & @mesa1966.bsky.social finds that the weaponization of civil rights law has been central to attacks on campus speech over the past two years. Only one of 102 antisemitism complaints reviewed raise antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel. 🧵

"The support that my public campaign has garnered from unions, democratic rights organization, and concerned people and activists . . . demonstrates that we must and can win this struggle for a truly democratic and egalitarian society through love and solidarity." Tom Alter wp.me/p8xr4h-dhT

Rutgers academic unions co-sponsoring this in-person panel, noon EST this Friday.

🇵🇸Join us Thursday for the second panel in CAHE's series "Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in US Higher Education." 2:30 PST/5:30 EST. Scan QR code to register.🇵🇸

For those of you living in or around Detroit, the documentary The Palestine Exception will be screening at Cinema Detroit on 11/11. Please share with your MI friends! 🇵🇸

Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation truthout.org/articles/rep...

“From attacks on academic freedom to the defunding of life-saving scientific research to arresting peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher ed policies have been catastrophic for our democracy. We’re excited to build a coalition of workers & students fighting back." – AAUP president Todd Wolfson

"The opposition to the war against Palestinians has become a hammer to destroy academic freedom. Whatever your position might even be on Palestine and Israel, you have to acknowledge that this is the mechanism that’s being used to reshape higher education.” — Bill V. Mullen, AAUP/AFT Local 6741

Great review by Carol Lang and Steve Zeltzer. "“Weingarten’s fascists may fear teachers, as the title of her book suggests, but they have nothing to fear from Randi Weingarten.” www.work-bites.com/view-all/wei...

11/17 event🇵🇸

Hope you made the first of our series this past Monday: our panelists inspired us with their brilliance and their courage. Register now for the next in the series and please share!

Join us for “The Art of Doublespeak During a Genocide: Higher Education Law and Policy Since October 2023”, the third webinar in the series, “Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. Higher Education” Register here: bit.ly/doublespeak1...

This event is sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, @actioninhighered.bsky.social, and AAUP Local 6741. Featured Panelists: Jennifer Ruth, Maura Finkelstein, Meira Gold, Jonah Rubin, Donna Nevel

This Friday! 8 pm EST. CAHE's Andy Hines with Davarian Baldwin and Vineeta Singh. Thank you for this @debtcollective.bsky.social! Appreciated and needed. debtcollective.org/event/univer...

Ashley Bailey, a pre-K teacher & CTU delegate, stepped up to lobby Rep. Will Guzzardi — and got a YES on taxing millionaires and billionaires to fund our schools. Now it’s your turn. Call your state rep and senator. Demand they do what Ashley did — say YES to funding schools and taxing the rich.

📢 When SNAP benefits stop, students suffer. Hear from EdTrust President & CEO Denise Forte on how the government shutdown could impact students and families across the nation: https://youtube.com/shorts/8VVXy0GWUHU?si=m6unE0lGz83WgfTz

CAHE Antifascism caucus event on 11/19! Please register and share!

This letter in support of Tom Alter is just shy of 2k signatures. Please consider signing and sharing! actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

“The Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP Local 6741 are delighted to announce: ‘Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. Higher Education.’ This series of five webinars takes place from October to December.”

University management at ASU, NAU, and UA must REJECT Trump's higher ed compact. ucwarizona.org/reject-the-c...

Zohran Mamdani’s historic campaign for New York mayor marks a significant moment for Jewish identity as more Jews distance themselves from Zionism. This will be a fierce generational fight with wide-reaching effects on American politics. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/zohr... #Palestine #Israel

Hope you made the first of our series this past Monday: our panelists inspired us with their brilliance and their courage. Register now for the next in the series and please share!

Later today!

🇵🇸Tomorrow!🇵🇸 5:30 - 7:30 EST/2:30 - 4:30 PST. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🇵🇸First in our upcoming series, co-sponsored by @JVP and AAUP/AFT Local 6741. Organized and moderated by our own Karim Mattar and the Palestine Caucus of CAHE.🇵🇸

🇵🇸Don't forget to register for each part of our upcoming 5-part series! First program on 10/27 includes Isaac Kamola, Heather Ferguson, Judith Butler, Lara Deeb, and Sherene Seikaly. Moderated by Karim Mattar.🇵🇸

👊LEARNING TO RESIST! The latest episode of the podcast AAUP Presents, featuring contributors to the volume University Keywords (2025), including CAHE steering committee members Andy Hines (editor of the volume) and Jennifer Ruth. Thanks @aaup.org! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

🇵🇸Joint L4P & CAHE statement on the raid in Nablus. Please share widely!👇

University of Texas AAUP urges admin to join seven other universities in rejecting Trump’s ‘loyalty oath’ compact. “The Compact reflects a grave threat to the mission of the University of Texas at Austin.” @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

"The annihilation of education is a central pillar of Israel’s genocide, targeting not just Palestinian educators and educational infrastructure, culture, and knowledge systems, but the very core of Palestinian life." 👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2025.2558520

👉IMPORTANT EVENT! PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!👈 www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

"Institutional neutrality" is a weapon in the suppression of speech. UT-Austin "blocked the Graduate Student Assembly from considering two resolutions against Texas state laws arguing that the student-run body must follow institutional neutrality policies." www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

We agree @palumboliu.bsky.social!

TONIGHT! Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution. 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT Live on both IG & YouTube. Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...

💔This is a heartbreaking story. We support our students, whatever their identities, and we deplore the political environment that is making their experience in Texas public universities so painful—while also harming the learning environment for everyone. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/21/t...