September 8    Over 30 people were arrested on Thursday, September 7 for blockading Massachusetts Avenue outside of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA in protest of the Trump/Pence regime’s rescinding of the DACA program. Among those arrested were a dozen professors from Harvard University, as well as others from Babson College, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, and Tufts University. Prior to their arrest, the blockaders were surrounded by hundreds of students, staff and other supporters.

Before the action hundreds rallied on the Harvard campus and heard from a number of speakers including Rev. Jonathan Walton, Minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church, and Harvard professors Walter Johnson and Kirsten Weld, all of whom were subsequently arrested.

Johnson cited Charles Sumner (a United States Senator from Massachusetts prior to the Civil War and a leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts), quoting Sumner’s response to the federal governments support for slavery and the need for civil disobedience.  Reverend Walton said they don’t have enough jails to hold us all. People chanted “education, not deportation”, and “hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go”.

The demonstration included speeches from professors and students, who rallied in support of the children of undocumented immigrants now able to enroll in colleges across the country only because they are protected by DACA.

The demonstration was saturated with Calls for November 4 and the broadsheet with the 7 Indictments as students and others were signed up on the spot for the 4th