The local chapter of the Service Employees International Union has put out a call to action to support detained workers like Lewelyn Dixon.
The SEIU Union demands that the University of Washington:
– Protect detained workers’ jobs
– Provide leave for immigration proceedings
– Educate all employees on their rights
A 64yo Seattle woman was recently detained at SeaTac airport after returning from a trip to visit family in the Philipines.
Lewelyn Dixon has lived in the US for 50 years, is a green card holder and works at UW Medicine. She's been detained at ICE's notorious prison, the NW Detention center.
https://www.newsweek.com/lewelyn-dixon-green-card-detained-ice-2049154
#Seattle and #Tacoma area folks: WSLC is calling on folks to meet outside the Tacoma ICE detention facility tomorrow, Thursday the 27, at 5:30 pm and rally in solidarity with two unfairly detained #union siblings
one is an SEIU member who works at a #UW lab and the other is an organizer with Familias Unidas por la Justicia, so I hope those of you in the university community will circulate this as well
more info at https://www.thestand.org/2025/03/solidarity-with-detained-union-siblings/?amp=1
Hearing about a young hacker whose being extorted by the University of Washington, not cool UW.
The student claims they built an app to help kids get the course schedules they want, a hack as old as time, and the university decided to expel him until he ports his app to the university's internal systems.
This would be unpaid labor.
Until then his class registration is on hold and he can't register or attend his last few classes. 
@ducksauz@snug.townIt took me almost 14 years of living here and randomly getting linked a wikipedia article about it to find out why University Way NE is known as "The Ave".
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The students were able to bail out their arrested comrade but have two asks for allies:
1. Call UW President Mari Cauce, right now before 5pm Pacific and next Monday. 206-543-5010, call script in image 
2. Help support our local community bail fund link below
Yesterday students at the University of Washington reported that one of their comrades was arrested.
The cops initially provided no reason. The students were standing around eating lunch after the board of regents meeting had concluded.
Eventually the cops claim the snacking student was arrested for "disorderly conduct" and not eating while Muslim.
The UW students continue their push for the University of Washington to divest from Israel and industrial partners,like Boeing, who are suppling weapons into the genocide.
Tomorrow at 10am they plan to rally before the board of regents meeting.
Meanwhile in Nablus, the occupied West Bank, a funeral procession with military honor guard carried Ayşenur Eygi's body to a cemetery earlier today.
Ayşenur was born in Turkey but grew up from the age of one in the PNW. She attended Seattle's West Seattle High School and graduated from the University of Washington.
Israel murdered her for peacefully observing the oppression of Palestinians.
Again listen to the legislation that Henry Jackson, UWs International school namesake, peddled in Congress:
- Nukes for Israel
- Build a military missile base in Discovery Park instead of a park
- Strongly refuse to return land to native Americans
- Ok with leasing a slice of land to natives for a price
This, all at UW, a college definitely voted most likeliest to start all events with a land acknowledgement.
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Jackson was known as a hawkish Democrat. He was often criticized for his support for the Vietnam War and his close ties to the defense industries of his state. His proposal of Fort Lawton as a site for an anti-ballistic missile system was strongly opposed by local residents, and Jackson was forced to modify his position on the location of the site several times, but continued to support ABM development. American Indian rights activists who protested Jackson's plan to give Fort Lawton to Seattle, instead of returning it to local tribes, staged a sit-in. In the eventual compromise, most of Fort Lawton became Discovery Park, with 20 acres (8.1 ha) leased to United Indians of All Tribes, who opened the Daybreak Star Cultural Center there in 1977.
Opponents derided him as "the senator from Boeing",[22] as well as a "whore for Boeing",[23] because of his consistent support for additional military spending on weapons systems and accusations of wrongful contributions from the company; in 1965, 80% of Boeing's contracts were military.[1][21] Jackson and Magnuson's campaigning for an expensive government supersonic transport plane project eventually failed. In addition, contrary to claims that he was an environmentalist, Jackson was almost as much a "whore for logging companies" as for Boeing, according Carsten Lien's book Olympic Battleground.[24]](https://partyon.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/113/103/671/060/456/380/original/60eb1edaaa292216.png "Criticism
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Jackson was known as a hawkish Democrat. He was often criticized for his support for the Vietnam War and his close ties to the defense industries of his state. His proposal of Fort Lawton as a site for an anti-ballistic missile system was strongly opposed by local residents, and Jackson was forced to modify his position on the location of the site several times, but continued to support ABM development. American Indian rights activists who protested Jackson's plan to give Fort Lawton to Seattle, instead of returning it to local tribes, staged a sit-in. In the eventual compromise, most of Fort Lawton became Discovery Park, with 20 acres (8.1 ha) leased to United Indians of All Tribes, who opened the Daybreak Star Cultural Center there in 1977.
Opponents derided him as \"the senator from Boeing\",[22] as well as a \"whore for Boeing\",[23] because of his consistent support for additional military spending on weapons systems and accusations of wrongful contributions from the company; in 1965, 80% of Boeing's contracts were military.[1][21] Jackson and Magnuson's campaigning for an expensive government supersonic transport plane project eventually failed. In addition, contrary to claims that he was an environmentalist, Jackson was almost as much a \"whore for logging companies\" as for Boeing, according Carsten Lien's book Olympic Battleground.[24]")
And now with the death of Ayşenur we see where US politicians prefer we protest, somewhere our deaths can be ignored.
Bullshit.
Meanwhile UWs Jackson School of International Studies has a statue honoring its namesake WA Senator Henry Jackson, one of America's most instrumental zionist ever in Congress.
Jackson was so Zionist he didn't want the US to sign nuclear nonproliferation teaties that would have stopped Israel from getting nukes.
The Seattle activist community has been shocked by the news of the murder of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at the hands of Israeli snipers in the West Bank. Ayşenur was a student at UW and was active at protests here in Seattle.
She traveled to the village of Beita in the West Bank after graduation to work as a volunteer legal observer documenting the destruction and theft of Palestinian lands in the area.
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online#Sorority sisters in #UW #transgender #lawsuit get day in #federal #appealscourt, after having their original case dismissed.
The panel of #appellate #judges questioned whether they even have #jurisdiction to consider the matter.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Wyoming #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://wyofile.com/sorority-sisters-in-uw-transgender-lawsuit-get-day-in-federal-appeals-court/
Latest update is that the University of Washington urged students to disband their protest during Friday night's negotiations. The college cited the pending far right rally this weekend creating a "safety concern".
They didn't ask the right wingers to cancel their protest. The group has been boasting that they plan to "buzzsaw" through the pro-Palestine encampment later today.
Oh no, the #UW #Seattle encampment might get attacked tomorrow.
This is a crappy piece of "guidance" from UW administration, saying basically "we asked the fash nicely not to beat up kids, but they say they're still coming, and we asked the encampment to leave, and they won't either, so I guess both sides, and maybe don't show up on the quad"
Just noticing that a local conservative church will be hosting a Zionist march through the Palestine camp.
The church's bio reads on IG "It’s revival or we die."
Reportedly the few cops who were visible on campus for these dueling protests were from Nisqually PD.
It's kinda odd that SPD didn't get the call, UWPD instead called on a cop shop from over an hours drive.
This interaction with a Karen (well Ken I guess) over the cops refusing to barge into the anti-fascist pro-Palestine protesters is pure comedy gold.
Look out world MAGA gonna defund the cops after this one 
TW: @Shauna_Sowersby
Had the cops (SPD especailly) been tasked as peace keepers Tuesday would have gone VERY differently.
Look no further than the fact SPD forced the train company to close UW Station during rush hour. Over a march to UW starting at a station. That's it.
Still digging with how the station closures work but my current understanding is SPD can call in a closure of "serious threats".
It's a wonder the place station is open for football games 
IG: @TheNeedling
Tuesday the encampment seemed very energetic.
Students urged the University not to involve the police even in the face of a potentially very large counter protest.
Instead the students kept educating about Palestine and providing daily updates on the genocide.
