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President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate and resort in Florida has been a target of protest since he was elected last year. "As trainees in a field whose overarching goal is 'to do no harm' and who see the human impact of Trump's policies on our patients," write the authors, "we were also in a unique position to hold our institutions accountable in standing up for those patients." (Photo: Getty)
Over the course of the past year, several healthcare-related organizations have decided to stop holding fundraisers at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Some of them had held annual events at Mar-a-Lago for decades, but given the president's consistent escalation of racist, sexist, and transphobic comments and policies, these organizations felt that they could no longer financially support him. In addition to outcry from local and national communities, tenacious pressure from healthcare professionals was a key factor in this exodus from Mar-a-Lago, demonstrating the impact that our sustained engagement can have in successfully holding our institutions accountable. We write to highlight some successful elements of our campaign and to encourage our peers to speak up when their home institutions are not living up to their stated principles.
As some of the students involved in this broad campaign, we hope to expand on this engagement and encourage our peers to continue advocating for health justice. As medical students, we are at the bottom of a steep hierarchy and often feel like our voices do not matter. We are under tremendous pressure to succeed on board exams and rotations, and we are keenly aware of the power that our medical schools and affiliated hospitals have over our careers. Despite this, students at Harvard Medical School and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine were able to influence our affiliated organizations - two of the top hospitals in the country - to take a moral stand and relocate their annual fundraisers. We held our organizations accountable and asked them to behave in a manner consistent with their mission statements, and eventually they listened.
Mar-a-Lago was not a fluke, but rather one event in a proud and successful tradition of medical student activists pressuring their institutions to do the right thing. In order to see more meaningful changes at our academic institutions, trainees must do more to build on this legacy of principled, patient-oriented activism by vigilantly looking for opportunities to act. They must see themselves as empowered. Trainees at Yale University historically fought to lower the price of a university-developed, life-saving HIV medicine in South Africa. More recently, students at Johns Hopkins have worked to ensure the affordability of a new tuberculosis drug. At Harvard, students led a campaign that resulted in affordable health insurance for low-income workers at their institution. As trainees, we are uniquely equipped with the right amount of idealism, drive, and future-facing vision to successfully fight for positive change.
Highlighting some key factors in the success of this campaign: First, we maintained open lines of communication with our institutions throughout the campaign. We identified allies in positions of power within the medical hierarchy, asked them to support our cause, and worked with them to establish meetings and direct communication with the leaders of Dana Farber and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Early on, students at Harvard and Case Western identified that we were independently making the same ask of our respective organizations and decided to join forces, which was an essential component of the campaign's eventual success. Despite these institutions' attempts to cloud or redirect our goals, we continuously restated our simple ask - that as medical and educational organizations, we must refuse to financially and socially support an openly racist, sexist, bigoted person. We stated this argument clearly and professionally, supported it with evidence, and were transparent about any next steps we planned to take.
Throughout the course of this several-months-long campaign, we allied with individuals and groups from outside the immediate medical professional community, including patients, artists, and groups representing issues including racial justice, single payer healthcare, and fair wage policies. When one of our organizations - the Cleveland Clinic - reneged on their promise to no longer hold fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago this summer, we restarted our campaign against this and made it very clear that we would not stop until they did the right thing. Through our initial open letters' sign-on format, we had built a several-thousand-deep community of supporters who were ready to jump in again when needed. When Trump's bigoted statements escalated to blatant refusal to condemn white supremacists after the Charlottesville attacks, the additional pressure hit a tipping point, and the Cleveland Clinic joined Dana Farber and dozens of other organizations in pulling out from Mar-a-Lago.
Medical student activists are simultaneously part of a wider movement, but we campaign in one place, against actors with which we have special influence and entanglement. This is critically important to re-establishing our profession's credibility as a calling that puts patients before profits and politics. Educational institutions that recognize and value the role of social determinants of health should actively encourage medical student activism. Medical students should be exposed to the principles and experience of social justice organizing, including strategic planning, power-mapping, and relationship building. We believe there are more potential medical student activists out there, ready to engage, and we hope to encourage them to pursue social justice organizing training and involvement.
As medical students, we were one part of a much larger, intersectional campaign pushing organizations to divest from Trump's businesses. As trainees in a field whose overarching goal is "to do no harm" and who see the human impact of Trump's policies on our patients, we were also in a unique position to hold our institutions accountable in standing up for those patients. Our open letters, national press coverage, demonstrations, and broad collaboration significantly contributed to the pressure that ultimately led to broad divestment from Trump's businesses. We hope that by sharing the successful aspects of our campaign, we can encourage our peers to become more involved in advocacy and to take responsibility for holding their home institutions to high ethical standards. Continued development of sustainable coalitions of healthcare student activism will further facilitate our ability to support the fight for health justice in our communities and beyond.
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Over the course of the past year, several healthcare-related organizations have decided to stop holding fundraisers at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Some of them had held annual events at Mar-a-Lago for decades, but given the president's consistent escalation of racist, sexist, and transphobic comments and policies, these organizations felt that they could no longer financially support him. In addition to outcry from local and national communities, tenacious pressure from healthcare professionals was a key factor in this exodus from Mar-a-Lago, demonstrating the impact that our sustained engagement can have in successfully holding our institutions accountable. We write to highlight some successful elements of our campaign and to encourage our peers to speak up when their home institutions are not living up to their stated principles.
As some of the students involved in this broad campaign, we hope to expand on this engagement and encourage our peers to continue advocating for health justice. As medical students, we are at the bottom of a steep hierarchy and often feel like our voices do not matter. We are under tremendous pressure to succeed on board exams and rotations, and we are keenly aware of the power that our medical schools and affiliated hospitals have over our careers. Despite this, students at Harvard Medical School and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine were able to influence our affiliated organizations - two of the top hospitals in the country - to take a moral stand and relocate their annual fundraisers. We held our organizations accountable and asked them to behave in a manner consistent with their mission statements, and eventually they listened.
Mar-a-Lago was not a fluke, but rather one event in a proud and successful tradition of medical student activists pressuring their institutions to do the right thing. In order to see more meaningful changes at our academic institutions, trainees must do more to build on this legacy of principled, patient-oriented activism by vigilantly looking for opportunities to act. They must see themselves as empowered. Trainees at Yale University historically fought to lower the price of a university-developed, life-saving HIV medicine in South Africa. More recently, students at Johns Hopkins have worked to ensure the affordability of a new tuberculosis drug. At Harvard, students led a campaign that resulted in affordable health insurance for low-income workers at their institution. As trainees, we are uniquely equipped with the right amount of idealism, drive, and future-facing vision to successfully fight for positive change.
Highlighting some key factors in the success of this campaign: First, we maintained open lines of communication with our institutions throughout the campaign. We identified allies in positions of power within the medical hierarchy, asked them to support our cause, and worked with them to establish meetings and direct communication with the leaders of Dana Farber and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Early on, students at Harvard and Case Western identified that we were independently making the same ask of our respective organizations and decided to join forces, which was an essential component of the campaign's eventual success. Despite these institutions' attempts to cloud or redirect our goals, we continuously restated our simple ask - that as medical and educational organizations, we must refuse to financially and socially support an openly racist, sexist, bigoted person. We stated this argument clearly and professionally, supported it with evidence, and were transparent about any next steps we planned to take.
Throughout the course of this several-months-long campaign, we allied with individuals and groups from outside the immediate medical professional community, including patients, artists, and groups representing issues including racial justice, single payer healthcare, and fair wage policies. When one of our organizations - the Cleveland Clinic - reneged on their promise to no longer hold fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago this summer, we restarted our campaign against this and made it very clear that we would not stop until they did the right thing. Through our initial open letters' sign-on format, we had built a several-thousand-deep community of supporters who were ready to jump in again when needed. When Trump's bigoted statements escalated to blatant refusal to condemn white supremacists after the Charlottesville attacks, the additional pressure hit a tipping point, and the Cleveland Clinic joined Dana Farber and dozens of other organizations in pulling out from Mar-a-Lago.
Medical student activists are simultaneously part of a wider movement, but we campaign in one place, against actors with which we have special influence and entanglement. This is critically important to re-establishing our profession's credibility as a calling that puts patients before profits and politics. Educational institutions that recognize and value the role of social determinants of health should actively encourage medical student activism. Medical students should be exposed to the principles and experience of social justice organizing, including strategic planning, power-mapping, and relationship building. We believe there are more potential medical student activists out there, ready to engage, and we hope to encourage them to pursue social justice organizing training and involvement.
As medical students, we were one part of a much larger, intersectional campaign pushing organizations to divest from Trump's businesses. As trainees in a field whose overarching goal is "to do no harm" and who see the human impact of Trump's policies on our patients, we were also in a unique position to hold our institutions accountable in standing up for those patients. Our open letters, national press coverage, demonstrations, and broad collaboration significantly contributed to the pressure that ultimately led to broad divestment from Trump's businesses. We hope that by sharing the successful aspects of our campaign, we can encourage our peers to become more involved in advocacy and to take responsibility for holding their home institutions to high ethical standards. Continued development of sustainable coalitions of healthcare student activism will further facilitate our ability to support the fight for health justice in our communities and beyond.
Over the course of the past year, several healthcare-related organizations have decided to stop holding fundraisers at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Some of them had held annual events at Mar-a-Lago for decades, but given the president's consistent escalation of racist, sexist, and transphobic comments and policies, these organizations felt that they could no longer financially support him. In addition to outcry from local and national communities, tenacious pressure from healthcare professionals was a key factor in this exodus from Mar-a-Lago, demonstrating the impact that our sustained engagement can have in successfully holding our institutions accountable. We write to highlight some successful elements of our campaign and to encourage our peers to speak up when their home institutions are not living up to their stated principles.
As some of the students involved in this broad campaign, we hope to expand on this engagement and encourage our peers to continue advocating for health justice. As medical students, we are at the bottom of a steep hierarchy and often feel like our voices do not matter. We are under tremendous pressure to succeed on board exams and rotations, and we are keenly aware of the power that our medical schools and affiliated hospitals have over our careers. Despite this, students at Harvard Medical School and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine were able to influence our affiliated organizations - two of the top hospitals in the country - to take a moral stand and relocate their annual fundraisers. We held our organizations accountable and asked them to behave in a manner consistent with their mission statements, and eventually they listened.
Mar-a-Lago was not a fluke, but rather one event in a proud and successful tradition of medical student activists pressuring their institutions to do the right thing. In order to see more meaningful changes at our academic institutions, trainees must do more to build on this legacy of principled, patient-oriented activism by vigilantly looking for opportunities to act. They must see themselves as empowered. Trainees at Yale University historically fought to lower the price of a university-developed, life-saving HIV medicine in South Africa. More recently, students at Johns Hopkins have worked to ensure the affordability of a new tuberculosis drug. At Harvard, students led a campaign that resulted in affordable health insurance for low-income workers at their institution. As trainees, we are uniquely equipped with the right amount of idealism, drive, and future-facing vision to successfully fight for positive change.
Highlighting some key factors in the success of this campaign: First, we maintained open lines of communication with our institutions throughout the campaign. We identified allies in positions of power within the medical hierarchy, asked them to support our cause, and worked with them to establish meetings and direct communication with the leaders of Dana Farber and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Early on, students at Harvard and Case Western identified that we were independently making the same ask of our respective organizations and decided to join forces, which was an essential component of the campaign's eventual success. Despite these institutions' attempts to cloud or redirect our goals, we continuously restated our simple ask - that as medical and educational organizations, we must refuse to financially and socially support an openly racist, sexist, bigoted person. We stated this argument clearly and professionally, supported it with evidence, and were transparent about any next steps we planned to take.
Throughout the course of this several-months-long campaign, we allied with individuals and groups from outside the immediate medical professional community, including patients, artists, and groups representing issues including racial justice, single payer healthcare, and fair wage policies. When one of our organizations - the Cleveland Clinic - reneged on their promise to no longer hold fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago this summer, we restarted our campaign against this and made it very clear that we would not stop until they did the right thing. Through our initial open letters' sign-on format, we had built a several-thousand-deep community of supporters who were ready to jump in again when needed. When Trump's bigoted statements escalated to blatant refusal to condemn white supremacists after the Charlottesville attacks, the additional pressure hit a tipping point, and the Cleveland Clinic joined Dana Farber and dozens of other organizations in pulling out from Mar-a-Lago.
Medical student activists are simultaneously part of a wider movement, but we campaign in one place, against actors with which we have special influence and entanglement. This is critically important to re-establishing our profession's credibility as a calling that puts patients before profits and politics. Educational institutions that recognize and value the role of social determinants of health should actively encourage medical student activism. Medical students should be exposed to the principles and experience of social justice organizing, including strategic planning, power-mapping, and relationship building. We believe there are more potential medical student activists out there, ready to engage, and we hope to encourage them to pursue social justice organizing training and involvement.
As medical students, we were one part of a much larger, intersectional campaign pushing organizations to divest from Trump's businesses. As trainees in a field whose overarching goal is "to do no harm" and who see the human impact of Trump's policies on our patients, we were also in a unique position to hold our institutions accountable in standing up for those patients. Our open letters, national press coverage, demonstrations, and broad collaboration significantly contributed to the pressure that ultimately led to broad divestment from Trump's businesses. We hope that by sharing the successful aspects of our campaign, we can encourage our peers to become more involved in advocacy and to take responsibility for holding their home institutions to high ethical standards. Continued development of sustainable coalitions of healthcare student activism will further facilitate our ability to support the fight for health justice in our communities and beyond.
"The children wept, as no parents were there to share the moment—their parents had been killed by the Israeli army," said one observer.
More than 1,000 Palestinians children orphaned by Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza took part in a bittersweet graduation ceremony Monday at a special school in the south of the embattled enclave as Israeli forces continued their US-backed campaign of annihilation and ethnic cleansing nearby.
Dressed in caps and gowns and waving Palestinian flags, graduates of the school at al-Wafa Orphan Village in Khan Younis—opened earlier this year by speech pathologist Wafaa Abu Jalala—received diplomas as students and staff proudly looked on. It was a remarkable event given the tremendous suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, especially the children, and Israel's obliteration of the strip's educational infrastructure, often referred to as scholasticide.
Organizers said the event was the largest of its kind since Israel began leveling Gaza after the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023. Israel's assault and siege, which are the subject of an International Court of Justice genocide case, have left more than 62,000 Palestinians dead, including over 18,500 children—official death tolls that are likely to be a severe undercount.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported in April that nearly 40,000 children in Gaza have lost one or more of their parents to Israeli bombs and bullets in what the agency called the world's "largest orphan crisis" in modern history. Other independent groups say the number of orphans is even higher during a war in which medical professionals have coined a grim new acronym: WCNSF—wounded child, no surviving family.
Hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians are starving in what Amnesty International on Monday called a "deliberate campaign." Thousands of Gazan children are treated for malnutrition each month, and at least 122 have starved to death, according to local officials.
Early in the war, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) called Gaza "the world's most dangerous place to be a child." Last year, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres for the first time added Israel to his so-called "List of Shame" of countries that kill and injure children during wars and other armed conflicts. Doctors and others including volunteers from the United States have documented many cases in which they've concluded Israeli snipers and other troops have deliberately shot children in the head and chest.
Palestinian children take part in a graduation ceremony at al-Wafa Orphan Village in Khan Younis, Gaza on August 18, 2025. (Photo: Abdallah Alattar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
There are also more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world, with UN agencies estimating earlier this year that 3,000-4,000 Palestinian children have had one or more limbs removed, sometimes without anesthesia. The administration of US President Donald Trump—which provides Israel with many of the weapons used to kill and maim Palestinian children—recently stopped issuing visas to amputees and other victims seeking medical treatment in the United States.
All of the above have wrought what one Gaza mother called the "complete psychological destruction" of children in the embattled enclave.
Indeed, a 2024 survey of more than 500 Palestinian children in Gaza revealed that 96% of them fear imminent death, 92% are not accepting of reality, 79% suffer from nightmares, 77% avoid discussing traumatic events, 73% display signs of aggression, 49% wish to die because of the war, and many more "show signs of withdrawal and severe anxiety, alongside a pervasive sense of hopelessness."
Iain Overton, executive director of the UK-based group Action on Armed Violence, said at the time of the survey's publication that "the world's failure to protect Gaza's children is a moral failing on a monumental scale."
"No state should be above the law," said Younis Alkhatib of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. "The international community is obliged to protect humanitarians and to stop impunity."
The United Nations humanitarian affairs office said Tuesday that the new record of 383 aid workers killed last year while performing their lifesaving jobs was "shocking"—but considering Israel's relentless attacks on civilians, medical staff, journalists, and relief workers in Gaza, it was no surprise that the bombardment of the enclave was a major driver of the rise in aid worker deaths in 2024.
Nearly half of the aid workers killed last year—181 of them—were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, while 60 died in Sudan amid the civil war there.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recorded a 31% increase in aid worker killings compared to 2023, the agency said as it marked World Humanitarian Day.
"Even one attack against a humanitarian colleague is an attack on all of us and on the people we serve," said Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs. "Attacks on this scale, with zero accountability, are a shameful indictment of international inaction and apathy."
Israel and its top allies, including the United States, have persisted in claiming it is targeting Hamas in its attacks on Gaza, which have killed more than 62,000 people—likely a significant undercount by the Gaza Health Ministry. It has also repeatedly claimed that its attacks on aid workers and other people protected under international law were "accidental."
"Every attack is a grave betrayal of humanity, and the rules designed to protect them and the communities they serve. Each killing sends a dangerous message that their lives were expendable. They were not."
"As the humanitarian community, we demand—again—that those with power and influence act for humanity, protect civilians and aid workers, and hold perpetrators to account," said Fletcher.
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution in May 2024 reaffirming that humanitarian staff must be protected in conflict zones—a month after the Israel Defense Forces struck a convoy including seven workers from the US-based charity World Central Kitchen, killing all of them.
More than a year later, said OCHA, "the lack of accountability remains pervasive."
The UN-backed Aid Worker Security Database's provisional numbers for 2025 so far show that at least 265 aid workers have been killed this year, with one of the deadliest attacks perpetrated by the IDF against medics and emergency responders in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza. Eight of the workers were with the Palestine Red Crescent Society, which on Tuesday noted that "Palestinian humanitarian workers have been deliberately targeted more than anywhere else."
"No state should be above the law," said Younis Alkhatib, president of the humanitarian group. "The international community is obliged to protect humanitarians and to stop impunity."
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday that humanitarian workers around the world "are the last lifeline for over 300 million people" living in conflict and disaster zones.
What is missing as advocates demand protection for aid workers and as "red lines are crossed with impunity," said Guterres, is "political will—and moral courage."
"Humanitarians must be respected and protected," he said. "They can never be targeted."
Olga Cherevko of OCHA emphasized that despite Israel's continued bombardment of Gaza's healthcare systemsystem and its attacks at aid hubs, humanitarian workers continue their efforts to save lives "day in and day out."
"I think as a humanitarian, I feel powerless sometimes in Gaza because I know what it is that we can do as humanitarians when we're enabled to do so, both here in Gaza and in any other humanitarian crisis," said Cherevko. "We continue to face massive impediments for delivering aid at scale, when our missions are delayed, when our missions lasted 12, 14, 18 hours; the routes that we're given are dangerous, impassible, or inaccessible."
Israel has blocked the United Nations and other established aid agencies that have worked for years in the occupied Palestinian territories from delivering lifesaving aid in recent months, pushing the entire enclave towards famine.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) added in a statement that "our colleagues continue to show up not because they are fearless, but because the suffering is too urgent to ignore. Yet, courage is not protection, and dedication does not deflect bullets."
"The rules of war are clear: Humanitarian personnel must be respected and protected," said the ICRC. "Every attack is a grave betrayal of humanity, and the rules designed to protect them and the communities they serve. Each killing sends a dangerous message that their lives were expendable. They were not."
Along with the aid workers who were killed worldwide last year, 308 were injured, 125 were kidnapped, and 45 were detained for their work.
"Violence against aid workers is not inevitable," said Fletcher. "It must end."
"Equipment manufacturers like John Deere have lost millions, but let's remember that working people are hit hardest by the president's disastrous economic policies," said one lawmaker.
US President Donald Trump has pitched his tariffs on foreign goods as a way to bring more manufacturing jobs back into the United States.
However, it now appears as though the tariffs are hurting the manufacturing jobs that are already here.
As reported by Des Moines Register, iconic American machinery company John Deere announced on Monday that it is laying off 71 workers in Waterloo, Iowa, as well as 115 people in East Moline, Illinois, and 52 workers in Moline, Illinois. The paper noted that John Deere has laid off more than 2,000 employees since April 2024.
In its announcement of the layoffs, the company said that "the struggling [agriculture] economy continues to impact orders" for its equipment.
"This is a challenging time for many farmers, growers, and producers, and directly impacts our business in the near term," the company emphasized.
According to The New Republic, Cory Reed, president of John Deere's Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division, said during the company's most recent earnings call that the uncertainty surrounding Trump's tariffs has led to many farmers putting off investments in farm equipment.
"If you have customers that are concerned about what their end markets are going to look like in a tariff environment, they're waiting to see the outcomes of what these trade deals look like," he explained.
Josh Beal, John Deere's director of investor relations, similarly said that "the primary drivers" for the company's negative outlook from the prior quarter "are increased tariff rates on Europe, India, and steel and aluminum."
The news of the layoffs drew a scathing rebuke from Nathan Sage, an Iowa Democrat running for the US Senate to unseat Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who has praised the president's tariff policies.
"John Deere is once again laying off Iowans—a clear sign economic uncertainty hits the working class hardest, not the CEOs at the top," he wrote in a post on X. "Cheered on by Joni Ernst, Republicans in Washington want to play games with tariffs and give tax cuts to billionaires while Iowa families continue to struggle. It's time to stop protecting the top 1% and fight for the working people who keep our economy strong."
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) also ripped Trump's trade policies for hurting blue-collar jobs.
"Because of Trump's tariffs, farmers can't afford to buy what they need to make a living," he said. "Equipment manufacturers like John Deere have lost millions, but let's remember that working people are hit hardest by the president's disastrous economic policies. Tired of 'winning' yet?"
John Deere is not the only big-name American manufacturer to be harmed by the Trump tariffs, as all three of the country's major auto manufacturers in recent months have announced they expect to take significant financial hits from them.
Ford last month said that its profit could plunge by up to 36% this year as it expects to take a $2 billion hit from the president's tariffs on key inputs such as steel and aluminum, as well as taxes on car components manufactured in Canada and Mexico.
General Motors last month also cited the Trump tariffs as a major reason why its profits fell by $3 billion the previous quarter. Making matters worse, GM said that the impact of the tariffs would be even more significant in the coming quarter when its profits could tumble by as much as $5 billion.
GM's warning came shortly after Jeep manufacturer Stellantis projected that the Trump tariffs would directly lead to $350 million in losses in the first half of 2025.