-----Original Message----- From: radcaucus at googlegroups.com [mailto:radcaucus at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Ohmann Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 7:02 AM To: James Davis Cc: radteacherboard-googlegroups.co; radcaucus at googlegroups.com Subject: [radcaucus] Re: pols threaten CUNY funding re BDS event
Here's an excellent article by Glenn Greenwald, originally published in the Guardian; it was on ICH yesterday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33818.htm <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001UyVVL58JLZ_yjW_jxcJEIkiRL2XTdn2PMAGr2fWJ1ecG Unw1EEEq9MVCiXVBFB4s87nrJSpJJosFy1s0JvuUWIdd3aOUVaGhdvHqP19W4QdHg7RHejqjqHHY aZLp6yHzjiE4fIb8cCE4aSe7lvXwqNIiQtKOYLfA> What do we do? I wrote the chair of the Eng. Dept. at Brooklyn, a friend of mine, urging her to recommend that the Dept. co-sponsor the BDS event; but that's like coals to Newcastle.
Dick
On Feb 3, 2013, at 10:41 PM, James Davis wrote:
There is some odious shit going down at Brooklyn College, and if you live in NYC or know people who do who would be willing to contact the elected officials involved, that would be much appreciated. Briefly: Omar Barghouti and Judith Butler were invited to speak about Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions this Thursday by Students for Justice in Palestine, who asked the Political Science Dept to co-sponsor. (They deliberately decided not to "endorse" but to "co-sponsor.") The first backlash came from the usual creeps, including Dershowitz, a BC alum, who sent the attached letter to the College president. The initial demand was for Political Science to withdraw its affiliation - no one challenged the right of the speakers to speak. Yet. Next came a round of denunciations by elected officials, many of them progressives and longtime friends of CUNY: http://nadler.house.gov/press-release/progressive-brooklyn-and-citywide-elec ted-officials'-and-leaders'-letter-regarding. Most recently, a letter has been sent to the College president explicitly threatening to withdraw funding from CUNY if the event itself even goes forward, never mind Political Science co-sponsoring: http://coreyrobin.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/letter-from-lew-fidler.pdf. I'm sure there will be a general petition within the next couple of days, which either Joseph or I can forward, but in the meantime please know that this is happening and kindly alert your relevant networks.
Best,
James
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