POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH
The Coalition for Action in Higher Ed (CAHE) is mobilizing again this year for another Day of Action on April 17. Last year, more than 100 campuses participated in the Day of Action, holding events, rallies, viewing parties for the teach-in, and meetings to strategize. To bring campuses together simultaneously, CAHE held a national teach-in moderated by Irene Mulvey that featured Rana Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, Erica Thomas, and Jason Wozniak.
This year, we have a number of events planned while also creating a scaffold for campuses who want to arrange corresponding events tailored for their local situations on April 17. The organizing Coalition includes the American Association of University Professors, HELU (Higher Education Labor United), Debt Collective, and AAUP Local 6741. Endorsers of the Day of Action include Common Notions Press, National Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, Historians for Peace and Democracy, Scholars for a New Deal in Higher Education, and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. The Day of Action has also been endorsed by a dozen AAUP chapters across the United States and more than 250 individual faculty activists and organizers.
We invite all campus workers, workers in K–12 and higher education, students, social justice organizations, activists, rank-and-file workers and parents to join our day of action in whatever capacity works for your communities. Please join the movement. If you have questions about how your chapter or organization can participate going forward, email us at DayofAction@proton.me.
More will be announced as plans take shape but today we want to alert people to CAHE’s Palestine Caucus series, beginning Thursday, Feb. 20. Some details are tentative as planning evolves.
CAHE Palestine Caucus – 2025 Program
Thursday 20 February, 5 p.m. EST (1 hour)
Antisemitism, False Charges of Antisemitism, and Building Resistance
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/DbTcXF_AQ_qZNjjZ1gwUPg
Thursday 13 March, 5 p.m. EST (1.5 hours)
BDS, International Law, and the Struggle for Rights and Representation on US Campuses
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pyyCqnJvT1ain-vG4sJ5mg
Thursday 3 April, TBD
Organizing for Palestine in US Scholarly Associations
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Uq1Gj-m5RmqbHdBvaO1I8w
Monday 14 April, TBD
The Palestine Exception National Screening and Discussion
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_FarTI4QRJ2jzXvfHskwUw
Thursday 17 April, TBD
Day of Action Palestine Webinar
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IcjEP_uhT6-LBeD55UDb1A
Jennifer Ruth is a contributing editor for Academe Blog and the author, with Michael Bérubé, of It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom and coeditor, with Ellen Schrecker and Valerie Johnson, of The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom. She is the director, with Jan Haaken, of the film The Palestine Exception: What’s at Stake in the Campus Protests?
