Thursday 13 March, 1pm EST on Zoom

BDS, International Law, and the Struggle for Rights and Representation on US Campuses Workshop

Introduction and moderator: Karim Mattar (CAHE)

Speakers: Omar Barghouti (Palestinian BDS National Committee) and Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal)

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pyyCqnJvT1ain-vG4sJ5mg

Please join CAHE on Thursday 13 March, 1pm EST for our BDS, International Law, and the Struggle for Rights and Representation on US Campuses Workshop, featuring Omar Barghouti (Palestinian BDS National Committee) and Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal). Mr. Barghouti discusses the crucial role of BDS in challenging complicity in the US and globally today, and Ms. Sainath offers expert legal guidance on your BDS rights as citizens and members of academic communities. To be followed by facilitated discussion and Q&A.

Thursday 3 April, 6pm EST on Zoom

Organizing for Palestine in US Scholarly Associations Roundtable

Introduction: Heather Ferguson (CAHE)

Moderator: Aslı Bâli (MESA)

Speakers: Anthony Alessandrini (MLA), Lara Deeb (AAA, National-FJP), Cindy Franklin (ASA, MLA), Rana Jaleel (AAUP), Abdel Razzaq Takriti (AHA, Scholars against the War), and Judith Tucker (MESA)

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Uq1Gj-m5RmqbHdBvaO1I8w

Please join CAHE on Thursday 3 April, 6pm EST for our Organizing for Palestine in US Scholarly AssociationsRoundtable, featuring organizers of boycott, scholasticide, and genocide resolutions at leading scholarly associations from around the country. Panelists relate their experiences working to secure institutional recognition of one of the gravest human catastrophes of our time at venues such as the American Association of University Professors, the Modern Language Association, the American Historical Association, the Middle East Studies Association, and others; their successes and failures; and they lessons they learnt for future organizing. To be followed by facilitated discussion and Q&A.

Monday 14 April, 6pm EST in person at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center and on Zoom

The Palestine Exception National Screening and Discussion

Introduction and moderator: Karim Mattar (CAHE)

Speakers: Jan Haaken (dir.), Jennifer Ruth (dir.), Katherine Franke (Columbia University), and Sherena Razek (Brown University)

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_FarTI4QRJ2jzXvfHskwUw

Please join CAHE on Monday 14 April, 6pm EST for our The Palestine Exception National Screening and Discussion. This event will be held in person at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center at NYU and on Zoom. The Palestine Exception tells the story of the emergence of one of the most consequential anti-war movements in US history on campuses around the country and of its brutal and bloody repression at the hands of university administrators and external special interest groups. Our screening will be followed by facilitated discussion of the film with the directors Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth accompanied by legal scholar Katherine Franke and campus Palestine activist Sherena Razek, as well as Q&A with the audience.

Thursday 17 April, 5pm EST on Zoom

Day of Action Palestine Webinar

Introduction and moderator: Heather Ferguson (CAHE) and Karim Mattar (CAHE)

Speakers: Rabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University), Andrew Ross (New York University), and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (University of California, Irvine)

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IcjEP_uhT6-LBeD55UDb1A

Please join CAHE on Thursday 17 April, 5pm EST for our Day of Action Palestine Webinar, featuring scholars and activists Rabab Abdulhadi, Andrew Ross, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. At CAHE’s flagship Palestine Caucus event during its National Day of Action for Higher Education, Professors Abdulhadi, Ross, and Willoughby-Herard discuss the Gaza solidarity movement on their campuses and around the country and chart a path towards a Palestinian liberation to come in light of the redoubled challenges we are facing during the second Trump administration. To be followed by facilitated discussion and Q&A.

Finally, we want to remind you that we are five weeks away from the Day of Action for Higher Education!

This past Friday, fifty higher ed campus workers, students, and organizers held a national Day of Action planning call with campuses coast-to-coast. We now have nearly a dozen actions set to take place on April 17 in addition to the full day’s program of online events. You can see all the events here; we will be updating the page with more events regularly. These include a mass action and rally at the California state capitol building, led by the California Faculty Association, and a mass rally and walkout at the University of Hawaii–Manoa, led by graduate student union Academic Labor United.

These are signs of higher ed labor’s growing power. Now we need YOU and your campus to join in by organizing a Day of Action event on your campus. Campus actions can include rallies, teach-ins, walkouts, tabling, union membership drives, and film screenings. Your Day of Action should address issues most important to workers on YOUR campus.

Let us know what you’re planning! Record your event here.

Some campuses are already planning watch parties for April 17, providing meeting spaces to discuss presentations by leading academic activists.  All presentations will be on Zoom. Registration will be available soon. These will include:

• Naomi Paik and Paula Chakravartty on “Why Sanctuary Campuses Now?”;
• Amy Offner and Tim Kaufman-Osborn on attacks on faculty governance;
• Rabab Abdulhadi, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Andrew Ross on Palestine and academic freedom;
• “Doing University Debt Reveals 101,” facilitated by the Coalition Against Campus Debt; and
• “The Planned Scarcity of Public Student Housing at West Chester University and the Transformative Organizing to Decommodify It,” facilitated by David I. Backer.

A nationally live-streamed teach-in the evening of April 17 at 7 p.m. will feature an equally robust lineup of speakers providing tools for fighting attacks on higher education. These include:

• Karma Chávez on countering attacks on DEI;
• Leila Kawar on organizing against political interference on campus;
• Aslı Ü. Bâli on Palestine, academic freedom, and repression; and
• Remarks by Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, and Levin Kim, chair of Higher Education Labor United.

We will be updating the events page on our website with links to these presentations and more, so check back frequently for updates.

The time is NOW to organize your own event for April 17. Please record your event here to help show that we campus workers and students are organized and ready to fight back.

We also invite you to our next national organizing call for the Day of Action on Friday, March 28, at 3 p.m. EST. Register here.

You can stay in contact with us by registering here. Questions? Write to us at dayofaction@proton.me.