Only yesterday, I posted a notice about the planned lecture by Dr. Azar Nafisi at Wellesley College on April 15.
Overnight, we agreed that the lecture would be postponed because of a non-tenure track faculty strike on campus. I fervently hoped the strike would be finished before the lecture, but the two sides are currently not close to a settlement.
Non-tenure track faculty voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW with the United Auto Workers. The strike began March 27.
Dr. Nafisi will not cross a picket line, and neither will I.
The lecture will be rescheduled.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Sadly there is no picket line at NEH. There are no longer enough employees to picket. The National Endowment for the Humanities has “TRUMP-TERMINATED” the majority of its staff. ESTABLISHED TO fund museums, historic sites, school programs & state humanities councils.
A notice informed a staff members that their position had been “abolished” following Trump’s Feb. 11 executive order on reducing the federal workforce with the U.S. DOGE Service.
Washington Post
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To get Republican support for his budget, Trump promised to cut $2.5 trillion from the budget.
That’s to fund the tax cuts for the richest people.
Gutting federal agencies does’s come close to a cut of $1.5 trillion.
The targets will be Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
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Thank you for not crossing a picket line! Btw, readers, striking may become even more important as the Trump administration and its allies across the country continue their attacks on working people. Strikes and boycotts!
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