Many of us are deeply concerned about the revocation of student visas at Portland State and the impacts on accessibility and equity which should be fundamental to the classroom. See the letter PSU-AAUP’s Vice President for Grievances and Academic Freedom sent the Cudd administration here. Additionally, it’s been almost six weeks since every on-campus union asked President Cudd for measures to be taken to defend students and all campus community members from exactly these sorts of attacks. We have received no response from the Cudd administration to these letters even as the waves of student visa revocations rippled outward from Columbia.
What happens next depends on all of us. Use these questions from AAUP national to advocate to the Cudd administration to robustly defend our students, faculty, and staff. Use this FAQ created in collaboration with the Dreamer Resource Center to help coworkers, students, and PSU community members know their rights. Join us for the below slate of teach-ins, rallies, and calls.
National Day of Action Thursday
Join AAUP members across PSU and the country in taking part in a national day of action Thursday alongside members of every on campus union. Action events are taking place both online and on campus.
9-10am - Sanctuary campus teach-in (Zoom-only)
12–1pm - Cross Campus Solidarity Rally in Montgomery Plaza
Featured speakers will include Tiffani Koyama Lane and Mitch Green
1–2pm - Discussion / Art Build for Liberation, solidarity, food in KMC 465
2–3:30pm - National Palestine teach-in watch party/webinar in KMC 465
3:30–4pm - Food & Community Gathering in KMC 465
4–5:30pm - Free Higher Ed Now: National Teach-in viewing in KMC 465 (or zoom) Featuring Todd Wolfson, AAUP president and Levin Kim, Higher Education Labor United, on attacks on campus workers, organizing every campus union, fighting for academic freedom and free speech, building power against University governing boards and trustees, speaking out for Palestine, education and debt, higher ed and racial justice.
Call to demand Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, a Farmworker Union Leader, be released
On March 26, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was violently kidnapped by ICE who broke his car window when Lelo tried to exercise his rights. As one of the initial founders of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), an independent union, Lelo helped agricultural workers win paid breaks and overtime and on educating the community and legislators about the exploitative H-2A program. In solidarity, the Coalition of Independent Unions has called on unions in the area to bring awareness to Lelo’s detention and make calls to demand his release.
Call Ferndale ICE Detention Center: 360-380-2270
Washington Attorney General's office: 360-753-6200
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson: 360-902-4111
Deportation Defense Coalition (PIRG, ACLU)
Protecting our Immigrant Neighbors in the Trump Era
If you see ICE activity, call the ICE Raid Hotline 888-622-1510
Sign up to be an IMIrJ Accompanier to support migrant community members forced to attend high-risk mandatory hearings:https://www.imirj.org/accompaniment
Sign up: Legal Observer training and to join Rapid Response Team
https://tinyurl.com/PDXtrainings2025
May Day at the Statehouse with AFT Oregon and PCUN, Oregon’s farmworkers union
On May 1, 2025, AFT-Oregon and PCUN members will join workers across the state at the Oregon State Capitol to celebrate International Workers’ Day—a day of action, advocacy, and solidarity. This year, our presence is more important than ever.
May 1, 2025, 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Oregon State Capitol (Map it)
AFT Oregon is organizing members for 2028 contract alignment to improve standards sectorally across Oregon higher ed. But as the political situation continues to deteriorate under the current administration, the urgency of building worker power is greater than ever. Now is the time to organize, mobilize, and demonstrate our collective strength and solidarity. Expect food, music, inspiring speeches from community leaders, and powerful stories from workers and organizers.
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/kWJmMYifMiREu3z69
Portland Troublemakers School
Sat. May 3, 9am-4pm, McDaniel High School, 2735 NE 82nd Ave
Join labor activists from Portland and beyond to strategize, share skills, and learn ways to organize to win. Troublemakers Schools are day-long mini-conferences that cover organizing skills and highlight real-world examples of taking on the boss and winning. Registration is covered for all PSU-AAUP members.
Register: https://labornotes.org/events/2025/portland-troublemakers-school-2025
Hands Off Workers! Rally
The Trump administration has issued an executive order stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government. As Labor Notes writes, this move affects “700,000 to 1 million federal workers, including at the Veterans Administration and the Departments of Defense, Energy, State, Interior, Justice, Treasury, Health and Human Services, and even Agriculture.”
As we say in the labor movement, an injury to one is an injury to all. Previous rallies drew between 2 and 5 million nationally. Join Oregon AFL-CIO and more in telling Trump and Musk Hands Off Our Unions and Our Services!
Sat. May 3, at Noon
Japanese American Historical Plaza, 100 NW Naito Parkway (Map it)
Find rallies across the Portland area and the nation athttps://HandsOff2025.com/
RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/may-day-hands-off-workers-portland-or/