Friday, December 02, 2005
Another Outrage
From The Nation email list (slightly editted):
Defend Free Speech at Hampton University
We wanted to alert Nation readers [and everyone else] to a seriously under-reported travesty about to take place at Hampton, a historically black school in Hampton, Virginia. Seven Hampton students are facing expulsion hearings [2 December 2005]. Their "crime" was distributing "unauthorized" literature criticizing the Bush Administration's policies on AIDS, Hurricane Katrina, homophobia, the Iraq war and the Sudan as part of a national series of student protests on November 2nd. "Unauthorized" flyers are distributed and posted all the time of course--it's only when they feature progressive political content that the administration cracks down. This is a free speech issue, an issue of students' rights, and an antiwar issue.
Click below to read and circulate a new statement defending the students.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=397&Itemid=102
Then please join Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, Howard Zinn, Michael Eric Dyson and many others in signing the petition. To do so, email to: youth_students@worldcantwait.org.
Click below for additional ways you can help.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=40304
Defend Free Speech at Hampton University
We wanted to alert Nation readers [and everyone else] to a seriously under-reported travesty about to take place at Hampton, a historically black school in Hampton, Virginia. Seven Hampton students are facing expulsion hearings [2 December 2005]. Their "crime" was distributing "unauthorized" literature criticizing the Bush Administration's policies on AIDS, Hurricane Katrina, homophobia, the Iraq war and the Sudan as part of a national series of student protests on November 2nd. "Unauthorized" flyers are distributed and posted all the time of course--it's only when they feature progressive political content that the administration cracks down. This is a free speech issue, an issue of students' rights, and an antiwar issue.
Click below to read and circulate a new statement defending the students.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=397&Itemid=102
Then please join Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, Howard Zinn, Michael Eric Dyson and many others in signing the petition. To do so, email to: youth_students@worldcantwait.org.
Click below for additional ways you can help.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=40304
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