To: ippn@yahoogroups.com From: "Corann Okorodudu, Ph.D." <okorodudu@rowan.edu> X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) >From: "Academic Freedom" <academicfreedomnow@hotmail.com> >>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:07:50 -0800 >> >>PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY > >The following statement in defense of academic freedom is being >circulated by concerned faculty members. If you would like to endorse >the statement, please send your name, academic position and >affiliation, and contact information to >academicfreedomnow@hotmail.com. Non-academic endorsers are also >welcome. > >We hope to publish the statement as a full page ad in the New York >Times and possibly other media outlets with the names of hundreds or >thousands of endorsers. The cost will be many thousands of dollars. >If you would like to make a contribution towards the cost of >publishing the statement, please send a check to: > >Center for Economic Research and Social Change >P.O. Box 258082 >Chicago, IL 60625 > >Mark your check "Academic Freedom Ad". > >Please contact the email address above if you have any questions or >comments. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To fellow teachers and staff members: > >In the crisis precipitated by the terrible events of September 11, >members of academic communities across the U.S. have participated in >teach-ins, colloquia, demonstrations, and other events aimed at >developing an informed critical understanding of what happened and >why. Now that the U.S. is waging war in Afghanistan, such activities >are continuing. > >Unfortunately, some participants in these events have been threatened >and attacked for speaking out. Trustees of the City University of New >York are planning formal denunciations of faculty members who >criticized U.S. foreign policy at a teach-in during the first week in >October. There have been similar efforts to silence criticism and >dissent at the University of Texas at Austin, MIT, the University of North >Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and >elsewhere. AAUP director of public policy Ruth Flower told the Boston Globe >on October 6, "We're watching these developments with a lot of concern." > >Attacks on faculty who have questioned or dissented from the Bush >administration's current war policy have coincided with other ominous >developments. Colleges and universities are being pressured by >agencies of the federal government to hand over confidential >information from student files. And there are moves in Congress to >limit visas for students from abroad. > >We call on all members of the academic community to speak out >strongly in defense of academic freedom and civil liberties, not just >as an abstract principle but as a practical necessity. At a moment >such as this we must make sure that all informed voices-especially >those that are critical and dissenting-are heard. > >Anatole Anton >Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University > >Dana Cloud >Associate Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin > >Anne D'Arcy >Departments of English and Philosophy, California State University at Chico > >Donna Flayhan >Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies, Goucher College > >Phil Gasper >Associate Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame de Namur University > >Richard Gibson >Associate Professor of Social Studies, San Diego State University > >William Keach >Professor of English, Brown University > >Tom Lewis >Professor of Spanish, University of Iowa > >Edw! ard Said >University Professor, Columbia University Corann Okorodudu Professor of Psychology & African American Studies, Rowan University > > > > >FORUM IPPN. > >A candle by the life > >Http://people.delphi.com/andybeals/thankyou.htm > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ippn/files/fondo%20negro%20y%20velas%20viole tas.g >if > >United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) >presented Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) with one of >their Blue Ribbon Awards for the International Peace Practitioners' >Network. > >"We hope continue to expand the IPPN and deepen the understanding and >contacts we are building among us, we will be contributing to building >cultures of peace around the world--both locally and globally." > >Information Listowners: Joanie Connors <jconnors@comp.uark.edu>, >Cesar Gayoso<cgayoso@yahoo.com>. 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