What's happening in Santa Barbara.. to get to the point is that a professor is being reprimanded for speaking his mind. Imagine that? Someone speaking their mind at a university institution, how absurd is that right? Of course it's not, after all that is what a university institution is supposed to do and inspire, critical thinking!
A group of students have formed this committee below to speak out against this new injustice. I would like to call upon RFK for some words of wisdom: "We know that if one's mans rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered" RFK.
Below is a some information on the committee (http://sb4af.wordpress.com/). I urge everyone to go this link and send a letter of support, we can't afford to stay in the sideline and do nothing, especially when it comes to issues that jeopardize our first amendment right, our right to freedom of speech!!
The Committee to Defend Academic Freedom at UCSB (CDAF-SB) is committed to educate about, promote, and defend academic freedom through a coalition of progressive students and organizations on campus. CDAF-SB is dedicated to organizing students on campus against nation-wide campaigns of political repression.
What bring us together are principles of academic freedom, participatory democracy, and open dialogue. These principles are essential to the protection of a holistic, higher education. As the most important of the nation’s civic institutions, the university must maintain its vigilant defense of the full and free exchange of ideas.
A silencing campaign has recently manifested itself at UCSB through allegations of anti-Semitism and misconduct against Professor William I. Robinson. CDAF-SB strongly opposes the flagrant and baseless affronts to academic freedom on this campus and to Professor
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