Statements and press releases
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GEO Stands with Resident Advisors Unjustly Terminated and Evicted from UM Housing
On December 6th, after two separate and unrelated incidents, two first-year and first-semester resident advisors (RAs) were called into separate meetings with their supervisors. In…
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Vigil on 11/9 at 7pm in Ann Arbor to Remember Aura Rosser, Ten Years After Her Murder
Ann Arbor, MI – November 7, 2024 – The community is invited to gather in downtown Ann Arbor at Liberty Plaza on Saturday, November 9,…
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GEO Statement Condemning Campus Police Violence on October 7, 2024
The Graduate Employees Organization, AFT Local 3550, unequivocally condemns the latest round of police violence at the University of Michigan. This is now the fifth…
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Solidarity Statement with Seth Webb and Eaton Aerospace UAW Striking Workers
Over five hundred UAW Eaton Aerospace workers have been on strike since earlier this month, when they walked off the job in protest of their…
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GEO Divests from the Military Industrial Complex, Prisons, and Apartheid
GEO members overwhelmingly (90%) approved a new portfolio and a new investment policy statement for the organization, incorporating a groundbreaking divestment framework for investing organizational…
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GEO Statement on Criminalization of Pro-Palestine Activism on Campus
Yesterday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that she is pursuing criminal charges, including felonies, against 11 people—a group comprising graduate student workers, undergraduates, alumni,…
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Statement Denouncing Repression of Black and Brown Activists at UMich
On Wednesday, August 28, 2024, the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS), through officers from the UM Police Department (UMPD), arrested…
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GEO Statement in Solidarity with Michigan Medicine Staff Facing Wrongful Termination
We are appalled to learn that the University of Michigan continues its repressive campaign against its students, faculty, and staff who have spoken out and…
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GEO Statement of Solidarity with UAW 4811
Dear Members of UAW 4811, We, the members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization at University of Michigan, write to you to salute you in leveraging…
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Statement Condemning Police Raid of Gaza Solidarity Encampment
May 23, 2024 On Tuesday, May 21, Michigan State Police and DPSS raided the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. After a month of peaceful occupation of the…
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GEO Statement on Ann Arbor City Council Palestine Resolution
The members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization express our support for the resolution brought to City Council by members Ghazi-Edwin, Briggs, Ackmon, and Song. For…
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40 Students Arrested Seeking Meeting with University of Michigan President
ANN ARBOR, Mich– Friday, November 17, 2023— During the Global Day of Action for Palestine on Friday, the University of Michigan police arrested 40 students…
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GEO Statement on Israel’s Siege on Gaza
October 13, 2023 After the apartheid wall separating Gaza from occupied Palestinian land was breached, we’ve seen unspeakable violence perpetrated indiscriminately against civilians. We grieve…
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GEO Statement of Solidarity with Graduate Workers at UCSD
We write as the graduate student membership of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), AFT-MI Local 3550, AFL-CIO at the University of Michigan to stand in…