Defend Public Research Funding Day of Action

🗓️ Feb 19 (Weds), 4pm
📍 Washington Square Park

@spocuaw (Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW, on X): “The Trump administration is attacking public research funding – and we’re fighting back! Join academic workers and allies across the country for a National Day of Action on 2/19.” + “The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, and jobs at risk. These attacks target workers at colleges and universities in many ways: through imposing a cap on indirect costs on grants across the NIH, freezing funding for crucial research, and threatening academic workers across the country. Without mass resistance, these attacks will result in layoffs, program and school closures, and devastation to local economies that depend on the economic impact of these colleges and universities. Lifesaving research on topics such as cancer, viral pandemics, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s won’t be completed, or even begun. Higher ed workers—long facing growing job precarity—are now facing unprecedented job insecurity. On February 19, higher education workers, students, and allies will get in the streets and loudly proclaim: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!”