CHINA Inc. Winning in Hostile Takeover of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Christian Science Monitor .. abridged )— On the 51st day of Hong Kong’s so-called “Umbrella Movement,” protesters and court officials, working separately and calmly, removed barricades that impeded access to a business towe[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’
November 8th, 2014 - 10:16 am § in America, Environment
Should Cops Ticket Coal Rollers?
Yes and no. I’m conflicted on this one. I think it depends on the circumstances. Yes, if they blow smoke in another driver’s face. No, if it’s just stupid show-offs with money to burn (these vehicle modifications are expensive) exercising free speech. The First Amendment protects a[...]
October 26th, 2014 - 11:32 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Privacy and free speech at the UW.
This post is based on a letter I recently wrote as editor of THE-Ave.US to a UW Prof who was upset that a post on TA had referred to a conversation the Prof had posted on the AAUP listserv. My letter, written as gmail, raises two important points. First, unlike most other large universities[...]
October 23rd, 2014 - 10:59 am § in Schools & Colleges
Who Decides What is Academic Freedom?
A College Administration Decides What is Proper Academic Free Speech: Students complained of racial harassment during Shannon Gibney’s “Intro to Mass Communications” class. Part of her curriculum included a lesson on “structural racism.” When the male students complained about Gibney’s [...]
CHINA: keeping the flames lit in Hong Kong
Socialist Action says the mass protests must be relaunched, especially by issuing a clear call for the all-Hong Kong school strike to resume with full force. There is no time for hesitation. The occupations must remain and not surrender another inch of occupied territory. Democratic action committee[...]
Keeping America safe from foreign poets
Washington Post: “Poetry can be dangerous,” Rumi said, and U.S. Homeland Security isn’t taking any chances. The Jordanian-British poet Amjad Nasser had been invited to speak at New York University this fall, but on Sept. 27, he was questioned for two hours at London’s Heathrow airport and t[...]
Obama (FINALLY) Comes Out For Web Freedom
Obama Expects FCC To Uphold Net Neutrality[...]
October 7th, 2014 - 12:08 am § in Misc.
Yale Joins Brandeis in Shaming Free Speech
Muhammad Syed, the co-founder and Executive Director of Ex-Muslims of North America “As a former Muslim with friends and loved ones who are Muslim, I am disappointed with the behavior of the Muslim Students Association. There’s a pattern of silencing dissent that runs through the Muslim wor[...]
September 9th, 2014 - 4:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Fruitless Attack on Salaita’s Academic Work
According to a report in Tablet, a liberal Jewish website, Steven Salaita’s appointment at University of Illinois was to a job in Illinois’ American Indian Studies Department. However, the author Liel Leibovitz was unable to find any evidence that Salaita had published an[...]