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Colin Rosadino, a sixth-semester law student at UConn Law, has been trying to whip up resistance to the Trump Administration for a while now.

“It’s the perfect moment to engage with the activists in our communities that have been doing really good work for years and maybe didn’t have that base of students to support them," he said in February.

“We need to build our own community in the lack of that sense of safety. We have to protect us. We have to create a community that is robust, bring people together and have the students be the barrier so we know that if ICE comes on campus and the University isn’t going to stop it, we’re going to stop it,” said Rosadino.

So he started a petition on April 19th to "protect" students whose visa statuses have terminated by federal authorities, and bring together legal resources for those affected students.

Rosadino said the University Student Government further passed a resolution to demand that the University and its leadership "take further, proactive steps to counter any future impacts on our community" and to continue to demonstrate against the allegedly "illegal incursions by the federal government" at UConn.

The petition gives an ultimatum to UConn and its administration.

"Their options are clear: either convene partner institutions now to collectively defy the Trump Administration or allow their students, faculty, institution, and community members to be individually attacked, disappeared, and dispossessed as the legal battles play out. The choice is clear," wrote Rosadino on the petition.

The petition continued, in bold:

"We demand that the university immediately circulate an open letter to partner institutions stating the undersigned will publicly, unequivocally, and collectively:

1. Ban ICE from private spaces on their campuses;
2. Refuse to negotiate changes to university policies and procedures sought by the Trump Administration; and
3. Establish defense funds to support community members impacted by both federal action and inaction.

IF UCONN DECIDES NOT TO DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY, THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY WILL."

If UConn fails to respond to the students' wild demands, they have promised to:

• Terminate all donations to UConn; 
• Cease recommending that prospective students attend UConn and actively discourage them from attending a university that would, at worst, participate in or, at best, acquiesce to harming them; 
• Directly contact investors and advise them against continued investment into the University; 
• Directly contact international partners and warn them of the risks of continued affiliation with the University, including sending exchange students to UConn; 
• Boycott events held at and by UConn, including student-alumni receptions; and, 
• Lodge complaints against UConn’s inaction with congressional representatives' offices, thereby ensuring that the complaints are in the public record. 

On top of that, students are planning to walk out of class on Wednesday, April 23rd, to bring their demands straight to the Board of Trustees at 9am at the Wilbur Cross Building North Reading Room.

And if that's not enough, Rosadino is asking the Husky community to take a pledge with students throughout Connecticut "to defend against ICE" by signing this petition:

By the way, Rosadino was a member of the Sunrise Movement while completing his undergrad at George Washington University -- that is the movement implicated in the Tesla Takedown protests. He's involved in climate activism through a coalition of student organizations called Fossil Fuel Free UConn, where he's "pushing to end the University’s ties with the fossil fuel industry." He also volunteered to help re-elect progressive, Green New Deal champions Jamaal "fire alarm" Bowman and Cori Bush to the US House of Representatives, and was a field organizer for Joe Biden.

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