Friday May 1st, 12-2pm, Homewood Campus, The Beach
We will be picketing in support of 3 main issues:
- Economic Security - stop funding cuts & restore discretionary budgets, fund workers until degree completion, expand health and dependent care coverage, & investing in B’more transit, including transit passes
- Collective Safety - abolish the Johns Hopkins Police Department, prioritize international workers’ protection through tax, visa, and OIS office resource expansion, amend arbitrary OPT/CPT policies, commit to non-police alternatives against ICE
- Union Power - cease and desist all retaliatory investigations into the union, end unit erosion, no surveillance or harassment for political activism, no dismissal without due process, respect our CBA (collective bargaining agreement)
Picketing is a protected labor action, and TRU is committed to keeping our communities safe. Masks will be required and provided at the picket. We will also have trained marshals and de-escalators to secure the picket line and support demonstrators. We keep each other safe and if you have any questions about protest safety guidelines, please refer to these best practices!
Whose voice do I hear ringing?
Let new songs be sung!
Everything evil has passed
along with the long, cold winter.
Rich in colors, rich in sounds
the First of May arrives.
—M. Soreyves (tr.: The Workers' Circle), Pearls of Yiddish Song, 1988 [1923]
