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What is perhaps disconcerting to me is not just the lack of concern of academics' torture (globally), but the implications that holds for general academic freedom and right to speech that we take for granted. In the West we enjoy such freedoms and privileges far more than in many other places, and imagine if that were taken away... this entire discussion via emails of personal opinions on a range of global/policy topics could potentially result in personal harm (the CIA/MI5/FBI/Men-in-Black might take you away in the middle of the night for 'questioning' your opinion how carbon offsetting). We should not take this freedom lightly, for many others are deprived of it. Best wishes, Farhana P.S. Please don't send me holier-than-thou emails, I suppose I am particularly sensitive as I am from the campus where these academics were taken and tortured, it could have been me, my father, or other extended academic family members... -----Original Message----- From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deb (Gmail) Sent: 05 September 2007 19:10 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Bangladeshi academics seek release / geographers and air travel the amount of CO2 released during the 5 academics' torture (there's a high probability that it may actually be happening given the military's high-handedness so far) may be something we think of between making coffee and planning the next session.....however, i do hope folks reading it will give it more serious thought than that ....even though most of us are helpless in doing anything about it.... "The BBC's John Sudworth in Dhaka says that as police left one address during their investigations, two men were found who appeared to have been seriously beaten." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6961543.stm deb. clark university, worcester, ma, usa. ----- Original Message ----- From: "SARA FREGONESE" <[log in to unmask]> ...And eventually, the critical geographer, thinking to which e-mail to reply first - "geographers and air travel", or "bangladeshi academics seek release" - stood up to make a coffee, wondering how much CO2 might be released under torture in a prison... ...And thought about a session in the next conference about whom and from where (can afford to) talk and act on climate change. S.