FEMINISTS IGNITING RESISTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT
MHK Solidarity Rally
Several FIRE members attended and helped organize the MHK Solidarity Rally on February 1st, alongside the Indigenous Alliance, the American Ethnic Studies Program, the Muslim Student Association, and the Unitarian Universalist Church. The rally and subsequent march along Anderson Ave. took place in response to Executive Order "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States" (13769), signed by President Trump on January 27th.
In the News
February 02, 2017
Trying to fight back tears, Behnaz Moradi said it hurts to be singled out solely because of where she was born.
“I don’t know what to say, I’m just a student here,” said Moradi, a K-State graduate student from Iran. “I haven’t seen my family because of exams and I just decided to visit them this summer. With this ban I cannot do that and I cannot bear with that.”
Moradi joined a large group K-State students and faculty members who filled Bosco Student Plaza outside the K-State Student Union Wednesday in protest
February 02, 2017
Hundreds of students, faculty and Manhattan residents braved freezing temperatures Wednesday evening to attend the MHK Solidarity Rally, which later turned into a march on Anderson Avenue, in Bosco Student Plaza in protest of President Donald Drumpf’s executive order that limits immigration from certain Middle Eastern countries. ...