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• Rolling back DEI
  Diversity, equity, and inclusion
• 2-Covid19
• 3-Racism
• *50th Anniversaries during the 2020s
• *** Alert: This Website is being reconstructed from the version in Sakai ***
  UNC is discontinuing its Sakai web platform as of May 15, 2024, so Vic Schoenbach has been moving/reconstructing this website, which may take a while - click for more information. https://go.unc.edu/SJAE and his other short URLs will eventually be re-pointed to the new site.
• Protesters across Triangle, US call for government to keep 'hands off' programs, services
  A series of protests titled "Hands Off!" were held across the country on Saturday April 5, 2025 to condemn the new administration and what protesters feel is overreach. WRAL News, 10:34 AM Apr 5, 2025 Updated 11:38 PM Apr 5, 2025
• Know Your Rights: A Faculty Town Hall on Academic Freedom and Political Interference
  Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:30-7:00 PM ET, Toy Lounge, Dey Hall and Zoom. UNC faculty are facing increasing political interference in our teaching, research, and university governance. This open forum will provide a space for faculty to share concerns, discuss challenges, and strategize collective action. Open to all UNC faculty4bring your questions and concerns!
• Maya Bernstein LinkedIn post about her dismissal
  Early this morning, my Chief Human Capital Officer sent a memo notifying me that I would be separated from federal service involuntarily on June 2 as part of HHS' "reorganization strategy to improve its efficiency and effectiveness to make America healthier." An example from among the thousands of other federal employees being dismissed.
• As more mental health crisis centers open across the state, here’s what you need to know
  Taylor Knopf, North Carolina Health News, Feb. 25, 2025. Mental health crisis services are expanding in North Carolina. Here's what they do and how to find them.
• * Flooding the Zone
  The Trump/Musk Administration onslaught - some have called the actions of the new administration a "coup": What Trump is really trying to do. His and Musk's assault on DEI, transgender rights, immigration, and the federal workforce serve to attract political support from various constiuencies but also as a magician's wand to divert attention from his real purpose and largely accomplished goal - government by Trump, of Trump, and for Trump. More at Trump2
• * What can we do?
  Several posts and organizations working to protect American democracy and the rule of law.
• *** How a little-known organization is poised to shape a second Trump administration *** (35 min)
  Fresh Air, Host: Dave Davies, October 30, 2024. New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger says the America First Policy Institute, which has nearly 300 executive orders ready to be signed, would influence a Trump second term more than Project 2025. (Includes transcript.)
  (For an historical antecedent, see the 1971 Lewis Powell Memorandum to the US Chamber of Commerce)
• Rebroadcast: Trump's 2025 authoritarian playbook and what it means for democracy (47 min.)
  Paige Sutherland and Meghna Chakrabarti, July 12, 2024
  Guests:
  Aisha Woodward, head of constraining executive power team and policy strategist at Protect Democracy, a non-profit, nonpartisan anti-authoritarianism group.
  Genevieve Nadeau, counsel and head of the defending against authoritarian threats team at Protect Democracy.
  Includes transcript.
• *833 - Come Retribution
  This American Life. Episode 833, June 7, 2024
  Donald Trump has talked about taking retribution on his enemies since the early days of his 2024 presidential campaign. After his conviction last week in New York, his talk intensified. We try to understand what his retribution might look like by speaking with people who have the most to lose in a second Trump administration: people who believe Trump will be coming for them.
  - Prologue by Ira Glass (16 minutes)
  - Act One. Republicans Who Crossed Trump (22 minutes)
  - Act Two. The Deep Stater - Alex Vindman (14 minutes)
  - Act Three. Four More Years (7 minutes)
  
• AAUP Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on Academic Freedom in Florida
  A May 2023 preliminary report from an AAUP special committee established to review the apparent pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida. The committee concludes that academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in Florida’s public colleges and universities currently face a politically and ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history.
• Teneo Network
  Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
  Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture. By Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
  March 9, 2023
• Advocacy Day for Inclusivity - May 22, 2024 (pdf)
  At its May 23, 2024 meeting, the UNC Board of Governors may defund UNC's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity, backing away from its 2019 affirmation that "the University is committed to building a culture and community that actively supports and promotes diversity and inclusion for its students, faculty, and staff, and for members of the general public who access our programs, services, and facilities" [The UNC Policy Manual 300.8.5; adopted 09/20/2019]. The May 22nd Day of Advocacy schedule of events begins with an AM press conference, includes lunch for early registrants, and a 2pm advocacy rally (see PDF).
• *Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional - 2nd edition, 2024
  Chandra L. Ford and Derek M. Griffith, eds., APHA Press. (1st edition was published in 2019)
                               
  
  
• Patriotic Millionnaires
  (posted 10/2/2024) Members of the Patriotic Millionaires are high-net worth Americans, business leaders, and investors who are united in their concern about historic levels of inequality and the destabilizing concentration of wealth and power in America. The mission of The Patriotic Millionaires organization is to build a stable, prosperous, and inclusive nation by promoting public policies based on the “first principles” of equal political representation, a guaranteed living wage for all working citizens, and a fair tax system. (more from About . . .)
• The Next Pandemic
  Roots of an Outbreak: How the Next Pandemic Could Start. ProPublica. Five articles from February-March, 2023.
  
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• Starting Alone
  A 1985 pamphlet prepared by the UNC Women's Club for as a service to the University community to make it a little easier for members of the community to plan for the possibility and navigate after the death of a partner. Because this document was published about four decades ago, the addresses, tax laws, etc. will have all changed, but the basic issues and processes largely remain in place.