What is this letter about?
This letter calls on the Regents of the University of California to take immediate action to protect our community from attacks by the Trump Administration targeting free speech and immigrants’ rights.
How does it align with yliβs values?
On March 8th, former Columbia University graduate student and legal permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil was abducted from his home in New York. Columbia University’s response has been a portrait of cowardice, helping the administration to target pro-Palestine organizers, attempting to weaponize anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia to open the door to authoritarian attacks on their political enemies.
This is a moment for the University of California to make a clear choice to stand on the side of intellectual freedom and justice. Not only is compliance with this regime’s racist and unconstitutional demands immoral and inhumane. Compliance will not save us. We cannot sacrifice vulnerable people for the slim chance of benevolence from a regime determined to dismantle higher education and enact its white supremacist agenda.
For over 3 decades, yli has worked alongside thousands of youth to amplify their voices and implement their solutions for meaningful community change. We stand in solidarity with UC faculty, staff, and learners in calling on the UC to protect freedom of speech and our immigrant communities.
This letter aligns with our Education Justice Platform.
What is yli doing about it?
We have just signed this letter, and we are voicing our concerns on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Who else has signed this letter?
- Afrikan Student Union at UCLA
- American Constitution Society
- American Constitution Society, UC Law SF Chapter
- American Constitution Society at UCLA Law
- Anakbayan Santa Cruz
- Atheists United
- BAMN – Coalition to Defense Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary
- Cal Queer & Asian
- California Women’s Health Specialists
- CODEPINK Bay Area
- ELAS de UCLA
- La Familia de UCR
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- Healthcare Workers for Abolition
- Healthcare Workers for Palestine-Bay Area
- Historians for Peace and Democracy
- If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
- Iranian Student Union at UCSC
- Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area Chapter
- Jewish Voice for Peace-South Bay Branch
- Jewish Voice for Peace at UCSF
- Law Students for Immigrant Justice at UCLA Law
- Maternal and Child Health Access
- Middle Eastern Student Association at UCLA
- Mindfully Fit
- National Lawyers Guild at UCLA Law
- National Lawyers Guild, UC Law SF Chapter
- Pacific Media Association
- Palestinian Student Union at UCLA
- Partners in Health Engage at Berkeley
- Pilipinx American Law Society at UC Law San Francisco
- Reproductive Health Interest Group at UCLA
- Rojava Solidarity Santa Cruz
- Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education
- Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Chapter at UC San Diego
- Students’ Civil Liberties Union at UC San Diego
- Students for a Democratic Society Santa Cruz
- Students for Immigrants’ Rights, UC Law San Francisco
- Students for Justice in Palestine UCR
- Sunrise Santa Cruz
- UCLA Latine Graduate Student Association
- UC Law San Francisco Employment and Labor Law Student Association
- UC Santa Cruz College Democrats
- UC SC Young Democratic Socialists of America
- The UCSF Global Cancer Program
- University of California Student Association
- Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club