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501c3 Defense of Democracy Civic Education educates the public on the importance of the public school and library systems in a functioning democracy and provides training, tools and coordination for strategic volunteer engagement in communities across the country.
501c4 Defense of Democracy Civic Action advocates for a public school and library systems that provides robust, inclusive learning environments for all students, and lobbies for policies to restore and strengthen the pro-democracy role of public education in communities across the country.
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Workshop: “Stopping Trump’s fascist takeover: defending immigrant and LGBT+ youth in our schools”‘
Date: Thursday March 6
Time: 8pm est
Location: Zoom
FREE

Ronald Cruz is an organizer and attorney with the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).

As a student defendant-intervenor in the historic Grutter v. Bollinger Supreme Court affirmative action case, he helped organize the March on Washington in 2003 that succeeded at preventing the resegregation of higher education. With BAMN, he is now promoting student, teacher, and community resistance to Trump’s mass deportations, as the central way to building a resistance powerful enough to stop Trump’s fascist authoritarian program. He is an out gay man and has been a proud advocate for LGBT+ equality, and has given speeches at youth walkouts for trans rights. After teaching an afterschool middle-school roleplaying-game class for several years, he has launched a highly-successful roleplaying-game YouTube channel, “The Rules Lawyer,” which he also has used as a platform to promote social justice.