STAND WITH RICK TOLEDO! DROP THE CHARGES! On March 6, police employed by the California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt kidnapped graduate student and Palestine solidarity organizer Rick Toledo in the middle of the night. They detained Toledo for two days without bail, and they subsequently seized his laptop and phone from his apartment. Toledo is a member of Students for a Democratic Society and an advocate for divesting Cal Poly from apartheid, increasing wages for striking workers, and keeping ICE off the university’s campus. In the wake of these acts of intimidation, Toledo has been suspended, fired from his teaching job, and he now faces four potential felony charges for organizing against Israel’s horrific crimes of apartheid and genocide. The State of California is attempting to disappear him for following the moral imperative to combat Israel’s systematic campaign of disappearing Palestinians through the tactics of incarceration, mass murder, land theft, attacks on students and educators, and ethnic cleansing. The MN AWC knows that an attack against one of us is an attack against all of us, and we stand with Rick Toledo as he faces state persecution for speaking truth to power as the U.S.-Israeli war machine terrorizes Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon. We also denounce all campaigns on college campuses to demonize and punish anti-war voices of dissent. We demand that the Humboldt County District Attorney drop charges against Rick Toledo, and we call on workers, students, and people of conscience across Minnesota to support Rick during his first court appearance on April 20!