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Subject:

Attack on Academic Freedom: is the persecution of Dominguez really about the TBTool?

From:

Brett Stalbaum <[log in to unmask]>

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Brett Stalbaum <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:08:34 -0700

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The following is summarized from the UCSD Faculty Coalition letter  
sent to Senior Vice-Chancellor Acadamic Affairs Paul Drake on April  
5th 2010. (Full letter reposted at http://www.walkingtools.net/?p=437)  
I will summarize some key information from the letter in bullets, with  
contextual information noted. Letters of support requested (see below.)

	• As the letter makes clear, professor Dominguez is being charged  
based on his celebrated artistic practice.
	• The charges stem from a Virtual Sit-in against www.ucop.edu on  
March 4th, a day of protest against fee increases at the University of  
California.
	• Dominguez’s tenure at UCSD is threatened, and the administration  
(Drake’s office) has threatened criminal charges based on a prima  
facie misrepresentation that the Virtual Sit-in was a botnet. (The  
former being legal, the latter being criminal.)
	• The nature of Dominguez’s art practice is known to Drake’s office.  
In fact, the AVCSS received and approved a promotion file in 2009 that  
describes the nature of the research. Dominguez was granted tenure  
based on that file.
	• Dominguez has held virtual Sit-ins against UCOP in the past, with  
no repercussions. This is highly indicative that the current actions  
against Dominguez are not motivated by the Virtual Sit-in, but  
possibly by other research being carried out by Dominguez and his  
colleagues. Note: I work with Ricardo on the Transborder Immigrant  
Tool Project – which is in fact one project supported by the UCSD  
supported walkingtools.net project. The research team also includes  
Amy Carrol and Micha Cardenas.
	• After a spate of recent hate-crimes on campus, including the  
hanging of a noose in the Geisel Library at UCSD, no criminal charges  
were brought.
	• The B.A.N.G. lab website was temporarily shut down on March 4th for  
exercising free speech, yet the Koala (a publication and website at  
UCSD with a history of racist provocations) is deemed by Chancellor  
Fox to be protected free speech.
Just to add a little more information for the concerned public, a UCSD  
auditors’ investigation of the Transborder Immigrant Tool project  
began well before the March 4th events, triggered by a complaint that  
remains confidential. Since that time, we have been informed by the  
auditors that the investigation has been expanded due to a letter from  
US Congress members Duncan Hunter, Brian Bilbray, and Darrell Issa.  
The possibility that the persecution of professor Dominguez is related  
to TBT or other research is therefore highly plausible.

I also want to make it very clear, I was involved in the March 4th  
virtual sit-in as a participant. Yet no administrative charges have  
been brought forth against me, and I have not been visited by  
detectives.

The full letter (reposted) can be read at: http://www.walkingtools.net/?p=437

General letters of support for professor Dominguez can be emailed to:

[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] 
, [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] 
, [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]

These are:

Mary Anne Fox, Chancellor, (858) 534-3135, [log in to unmask]

Lawrence Pitts, Provost of the UC,  [log in to unmask]

Arthur Ellis, Vice Chancellor for Research, [log in to unmask]

Stephanie Burke, Assistant Vice Chancellor, (858) 534-3913, [log in to unmask]

Paul Drake, Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, 858.534.3132, [log in to unmask] 
  and [log in to unmask]

Seth Leher, Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities, UCSD, [log in to unmask]

Kristina Larson, [log in to unmask]

Amy Rosen, [log in to unmask]

Grant Kester, Chair, Department of Visual Arts, [log in to unmask]

Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts,  
UCSD, [log in to unmask]

Myself

Sites:

http://bang.calit2.net/

http://bang.calit2.net/xborder/

Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer with Security of Employment
Department of Visual Arts
University of California San Diego

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