NEARI Organizer Fil Eden lead the crowd and organized chants.Laura Turner – Associate Professor of Psychology (right) and Rebecca Distefano – Assistant Professor of Psychology, with her baby (left) show support.NEARI Government Relations Director Alex Lucini singing “Solidarity Forever” to the crowd.NEARI President Val Lawson gives a speech.NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden gives a speech.RWU Professor June Speakman, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science gives a speech.RI AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley fires up the crowd and gives a speech.RI AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley fires up the crowd and gives a speech.RI AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley fires up the crowd and gives a speech.UFCW Local 328 Secretary-Treasurer Domenic Pontarelli gives a speech.Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition says a few words to the crowd.State Representative and RWU Law Alum Brandon Potter gives a speech.Laura Turner – Associate Professor of Psychology (right) and Rebecca Distefano – Assistant Professor of Psychology, with her baby (left) show support.Protestors hold their signs up.Protestors ring cow bells as they stand below the windows to the Great Room, where the Board of Trustees Meeting is taking place.Protestors hold up their signs and chant together.Protestors ring cow bells and hold their signs as they stand below the windows to the Great Room, where the Board of Trustees Meeting is taking place.Protestors sing “Solidarity Forever” together.Protesting faculty and staff listen to speakers.Protesting faculty and staff listen to speakers.Protesting faculty and staff listen to speakers.Protesting faculty and staff cheer for speakers.Protestors not standing on the patio hold up their signs high.A protestor holds up Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Compositions sign while she says a few words to the crowd.Protestors hold up their signs and chant together.Frustrated staff and faculty listen to speakers.Protestors listen and clap for speakers.Protesting faculty and staff listen to speakers and hold their signs.Protestors chant together.Before 10:30am on May 14th, North Campus Residence Hall posted the top two signs to notify the closure of the building to the public. After the rally concluded, the third sign (bottom) was added by protestors.Protesting faculty and staff pose for a photo with their sign.Protesting faculty and staff hand out and attach pins saying RWUFA (Roger Williams University Faculty Association) to their shirts.Protesting staff and faculty head down the stairs on the backside of North Campus Residence Hall, making their way around the building to the side with windows into the Great Room, where the Board of Trustees meeting is taking place.Protesting staff and faculty head down the stairs on the backside of North Campus Residence Hall, making their way around the building to the side with windows into the Great Room, where the Board of Trustees meeting is taking place.Professor of Creative Writing, Renee Soto, takes photos of the protesting staff and faculty as they march around North Campus Residence Hall.Protesting staff and faculty stand on the lawn on the side of North Campus Residence Hall, ringing cow bells and chanting.Protesting staff and faculty stand on the road on the side of North Campus Residence Hall, ringing cow bells and chanting.Protesting staff and faculty walk across the lawn on the side of North Campus Residence Hall, ringing cow bells and yelling out chants led by NEARI Organizer Fil Eden.Protesting staff and faculty chant “open the blinds” at the windows of the Great Room at North Campus Residence Hall where the Board of Trustees Meeting is taking place.Protesting staff and faculty chant passionately while holding their signs.Protesting staff and faculty chant passionately while holding their signs.Protesting staff and faculty hold their signs.Protesting staff and faculty chant loudly while holding their signs and ringing cow bells.Protesting staff and faculty chant loudly while holding their signs and ringing cow bells.Protesting staff and faculty chant loudly while holding their signs and ringing cow bells.Protestors not standing on the patio hold up their signs high.
