AAUP All-Member Meeting on May Day

I attended the AAUP All-Member Meeting on May Day to get a clearer sense of the national agenda. What I saw was a coordinated push to escalate on multiple fronts—through disruption, summer direct-action trainings, and broader coalition-building.

“We have to escalate our tactics… Arguments alone will not win. We have to meet force with force.”

“We need to make the actions more disruptive—so it’s not business as usual.”

In the lead-up to the meeting, I’d read an AAUP letter from the University of Virginia, authored by Ashon Crawley, that invoked everything from “genocide” in Gaza to sweeping claims that the university system itself is white supremacy—and even dismissed “intellectual diversity” as a right-wing conspiracy. The local chapter was clearly radical. But was the national organization any different?

Had the AAUP gone off the rails at both the local and national levels? As usual, I had to see it for myself…

My Twitter Thread Breakdown can be found here - https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1919034979037720789