Raul Fernandez
@raulspeaks
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Equity-focused educator and nonprofit leader.
Joined November 2008
@raulspeaks is 100% right with this letter to the editor. "To preserve federal funding, these wealthy institutions-ones best situated to fight back-have surrendered the higher-education sector and with it any true meaning of academic freedom."
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The deals that have been cut have made the withholding of federal grants based on partisan viewpoints a viable tactic.
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Josh Kraft will lose this election, that much is clear. But you can lose an election and still advance important ideas. Sadly, all people will remember from this campaign will be the terrible way his consultants have run it.
Everything Michelle Wu falsely accuses me of, she’s guilty of herself. From ties to Trump megadonors, to how she financed her home, to her own father’s politics. Career politicians thrive on hypocrisy, and @MayorWu is no exception.
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One week ago today, we shocked the establishment and redrew the political map of New York City with a campaign relentlessly focused on the needs of working people. Let's break it down.
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Not a single “invasion” in history involved people entering another country to become dishwashers or delivery drivers. Miller wants you to be terrified of people who are trying to feed their families, so when he rounds them up and abuses them, you won’t protest.
Stephen Miller’s tweets are becoming indistinguishable from a 4chan incel manifesto
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Verizon has now agreed to end its DEI policies as specified in a new FCC filing. These changes are effective immediately. A good step forward for equal opportunity, nondiscrimination, and the public interest.
I am concerned by Verizon’s continued focus on promoting DEI. I expect all regulated businesses to end invidious forms of discrimination.
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Not me, Us.💪🏽❤️ It’s time to pay attention hyper locally. Join school boards. Flood your city councils & state assemblies. Help a local campaign. Up and down ballot, we need you. Non-electorally, join community groups. Local issues & rapid response are key. We build from there.
Sanders: She worked hard, and she pulled off a major upset. The reason I say all of that is not just to praise Alexandria, but to tell you—and the people of America—that what Alexandria did, you can do. There are millions of young people out there who love this country, who are
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There is a young man in jail today for protesting at his college. No charges. No criminal conduct. In dictatorships, they call this “a disappearance”. I want to tell you why this case should matter to you, even if you strongly disagree with what he said or did.
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Ugly, chilling, alarming, authoritarian. And JD Vance was just in Germany chastising Europeans for similar attacks on speech. This administration has no consistent worldview except to enrich their friends and attack those they see as enemies.
SHALOM, MAHMOUD. "ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of @Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come." –President Donald J. Trump
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If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.
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(R) oversight chair: no one is talking about mass deportations. 2024 republican convention:
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My latest on the Dear Colleague letter from the now comically named Office of Civil Rights. Disregard the content of the letter, but not its intention. Read here: https://t.co/ZpL3R2y7Gc
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To be clear, this is a choice. There is no law that requires these changes. Northeastern is a case study in fair weather institutional “commitments” to equity which fold as quickly as their websites can be updated. Sadly, there will be many more.
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Under the looming threat of federal examination, Northeastern has replaced or dismantled nearly all of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, messaging and websites. Among several other...
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If banning forced brokers' fees can keep one family in Somerville, then we should get rid of them! That's why I'm pushing to ensure that whoever hires the broker has to pay the broker. Glad to join @EnriquePepen & @VoteJivan who are doing the same to fight for affordability.
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Not sure a republican governor could enact more heartless and shortsighted policies than @MassGovernor has on this. Her choices further undermine our Right to Shelter law and, combined with new local laws against sleeping outdoors, criminalize and further traumatize vulnerable
NEW: @MassGovernor said she will seek to limit homeless and migrant families to six-month stays in Massachusetts’ strained emergency shelter system, further curtailing what’s allowed under state law. https://t.co/QNg9iVkNyR via @BostonGlobe
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“Many states supported Trump but Mass. was not one of them. We owe it to our residents to respond to the urgency of this moment, so let’s act locally on VP Harris’s economic platform.” Are legislative leaders serious or just pandering? #mapoli
https://t.co/rVQ115zrg2
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Let’s act locally on Vice President Harris’s economic platform. Let’s make corporations pay their fair share of taxes, rapidly build enough housing to meet demand, expand tax credits for families,...
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Legend.
This fall, I knocked over 5,000 doors in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford to talk about Question 2 and Question 5. Decided to head back to Philly today to do GOTV with the Working Families Party in the neighborhoods where I did my first canvassing in 2012.
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I'm excited to help launch and teach in this new doctoral program at @BUWheelock We're building a cohort of experienced, equity-driven leaders who will transform our field to deliver on the promise of #HigherEducation . Learn more and apply at: https://t.co/6hAv5r9k2c
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