Over 1,000 people rallied in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to demand Harvard resist the Trump administration’s threats of withholding $9 billion in federal funding. Trump warned he would take the money away unless the university eliminates DEI programming and suppresses pro-Palestinian voices. Harvard professors sued the Trump administration last week over the threat. This is a Harvard senior from Sweden at Saturday’s protest.

Harvard senior: “I have talked to so many friends who were scared of just showing up today, because we have seen our friends get their visas revoked, get detained and potentially — potentially deported. So, the self-silencing that is happening right now is really, really scary, and that is what we have to stand up against. I think that there is no more dangerous response to authoritarianism than self-silencing.”