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Against a dark grey background are 5 candles in the colors of the trans flag stripes (blue, pink, white, pink, blue) from left to right.
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Resisting transphobia

The struggle for trans rights and liberation today

 by Eric Maroney, Clarissa (Lars) Gold, and Ambrose Moore

As part of the past week of events that took place throughout the country during Trans Awareness Week and the observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, the Vermont Tempest chapter hosted an event, “Resisting Transphobia,” that took place in the backdrop of the local tragic death earlier this month of Middlebury College student and trans activist Lia Smith.
A drawing of a candle lit inside a chalice, against a plain, pinkish-red background.
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Loyalty to truth and solidarity—not to the authoritarian state

Speech to the AAUP National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths

 by Jesse Hagopian

Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths organized by the American Association of University Professors, which notes that President Trump’s so-called Compact with universities “violates the First Amendment by forcing universities to surrender their right of free speech and academic freedom in exchange for federal funds.”