truthout: “As legislation targeting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ students and educators mounts, advocates across the state say they refuse to sit idly by and plan to continue to resist DeSantis’ censorship.
Students hosted a statewide walkout earlier this month. Two actions took place on Feb. 23 across college campuses: Can’t Ban Us, organized by the Dream Defenders, Power U Center for Social Change, Black Men Build, and FL Student Power, and Stand For Freedom, organized by University of South Florida student Ben Braver. Both actions called on students to walk out of their classes, jobs, meetings, and commitments in protest of the restrictions while staging Black history teach-ins with the goal of showing DeSantis “no matter what they do, we’re not backing down.””