The art of resistance: Trump’s attack on humanities triggers a blowback movement.

The Trump government ordered the National Endowment for the Humanities to cancel all the funding to the fifty State Humanities Councils .

The arts and humanities organizations, led by visionary change agents, do much more than organizing cultural events: they play a crucial role in fostering social bonds, as well as community and local identity.

A national movement has emerged to resist these culturally and economically counter-productive cuts.

Rural Republican Congresspeople from Alaska , Idaho , Oklahoma , and Maine and Democratic Congresspeople are joining the coalition.

Democracy Forward teamed up with the American Federation of Teachers , the Service Employees International Union , and the American Association of University Professors to secure education opportunities for all.

The ACLS statement was co-signed by 25 professional societies, ranging from the American Folklore Society to the Society of Biblical Literature .

ACLS President Joy Connolly , President of the ACLS , denounced attacks on the production of knowledge by the Trump administration.

Citizens in local communities — rural, suburban, and urban — throughout the nation are also resisting the dismantling of federal agencies that support inclusive and humanistic participatory democracy.