Robert Reich:

Solidarity breeds courage.
One of the reasons that so many people in this country are afraid right now.
One of the reasons that so many international students are afraid to say what they think.
One of the reasons that so many people are afraid that they might be even abducted
and sent to a prison in El Salvador is because they feel a lack of solidarity,
they feel that they are vulnerable, they feel that they and their liberties can be taken at any time
and they’re right if there is no solidarity, if we are not protecting them,
if we are not helping them, if we are not looking out for them.
So I thank you for your courage. I ask you to help Berkeley and its administration do the right thing.
I ask you to help international students understand that we have their backs.
Because if anybody is intimidated, if anybody feels they cannot speak or learn or teach
or do what they want to do in terms of their intellectual life, none of us is safe.
The truth is not safe. And I will say this about the administration’s abduction of people
without any due process, without any trial, without any judge overseeing it.
If somebody can be abducted in the United States and sent to a brutal prison in another land, none of us, none of us is safe.
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage and solidarity.
Be prepared. Thank you.
Thank you.

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