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I'm in the Baltimore Sun today arguing for UMD's students and teachers and against the culture of fear administrators have imposed not just on protestors, but on everyone. baltimoresun.com/2024/09/26/umd…

Update: I have received a subjectless email from millionaire UMD donor, and Atlanta Hawks owner, Bruce Levenson, who objects to my description of him as a cranky Facebook uncle just bc he writes angry letters to faculty, with bosses CC'ed, and then fwds them articles for months

Are you a UMD faculty member? You need to join UAM-UMD! Link below.

At Monday’s hearing, UMD Police Chief Mitchell testified that he takes Klan threats seriously, due to their propensity for extreme violence, and it was these racist threats from pro-Israel individuals that led him to recommend the uni bar SJP from holding its vigil on 10/07.

UMD lost its legal fight to ban SJP & JVP's vigil, but mass restrictions on free speech (sorry "expressive activity") remain. Today UAM-UMD published an open letter with campus allies calling for an end to those rules and a return to dialogue and sanity uamumd.org/we-must-protec…

I have been putting more announcements here lately because there's been a lot to announce but I'm not here except for that purpose because Twitter is broken and full of Nazis. Please move to Bluesky, which works like old Twitter and is largely Nazi free.

We are building a union that unites faculty of all ranks & types to secure fair, equitable, & transparent working & learning conditions for all campus workers. Want to get involved? Join our president Karin Rosemblatt in signing our new mission statement: actionnetwork.org/forms/2371345b…

We're building a union UAM-UMD for every academic worker at UMD. Sign on to our mission statement and get that union glow actionnetwork.org/forms/2371345b…

Who is that rocking our new mission statement outside his office door?!?! That is our VP Dan Greene! Join Dan & faculty of all ranks/types across U of Maryland & sign our mission statement: actionnetwork.org/forms/2371345b… Together we will make UMD a better university for all!

What do the election results mean for higher ed? To quote Vice President JD Vance: "The professors are the enemy." We must organize w/ American Association of University Professors AFT AFT Higher Ed to get ready for the coming Project 2025 onslaught on higher ed. Find out how here: uamumd.org/professors-are…

Nothing from Univ. of Maryland Dr. Darryll J. Pines! Don't count on your institutions to defend you in the coming onslaught on higher ed. Only way to protect ourselves is to organize, organize, organize! Find out how to do this with us & American Association of University Professors AFT here: uamumd.org/professors-are…

If you are an AAUP member, you can come to this training. We protect us. And I still believe we will win.

Today I went to the USM Regents meeting and spoke for UAM-UMD and in support of UMD Graduate Labor Union, who have supermajority support and are seeking voluntary recognition. Our working conditions are learning conditions. The right is coming for us all, management must work with us.

Our VP Dan Greene: "according to [UMD] President Pines’s climate survey, 70% of UMD faculty feel uncomfortable w/ the campus climate & 51%, incl. myself, have considered leaving UMD...We keep one eye on the door bc it’s uncomfortable and nothing changes." uamumd.org/uam-umd-vp-dan…