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From: "Brenda Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to urge you to consider signing a petition to protect free
speech at Yale.
Recently, eight Yale University staff and graduate students were arrested
for distributing pro-union literature on campus. They face up to one year
in prison. Other union supporters have been subject to police surveillance
and harassment.
You can view and sign the petition to Yale President Richard Levin at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/yale/petition.html
As academics, it is our duty to protect the freedom of inquiry and
expression on our nation's campuses. Therefore, we must insist that Yale
take action to protect and preserve the freedom of its students and staff
to express pro-union opinions, even when these opinions are strenuously
opposed by the University Administration.
We must speak out whenever a university administration uses its police
powers to quell dissenting voices.
The best article about these arrests can be viewed at:
http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=new&db=nac_fea&ref=22537
October Update:
* The unions at Yale have filed "unfair labor practice" charges with the
NLRB against both Yale University and its teaching hospital, on 10/30/02.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=20474
* An aldermanic committee voted unanimously to recommend that Yale's
teaching hospital be stripped of its power to arrest, and that Yale
University President Richard Levin urge the hospital to drop all charges
(full aldermanic vote on 11/18/02). See:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=20408
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5867016&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id
=7 576&rfi=6
Please sign the petition, and please forward it on to your academic
colleagues and/or to appropriate academic email lists.
The Petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/yale/petition.html
More background information:
http://www.geso.org
Thank you.
Brenda Choresi Carter
Program in American Studies
Yale University
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Dr. Andrew Herod
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
204 GGS Building
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602, USA
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