- Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
Malicious Government Prosecution Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy..
- Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."
- The Academic Boycott Debate
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
- Academics, Students, Community Members Slam Carleton U Attempt to Stifle Class Discussions and Academic Freedom
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Coalition of academics, students and community members rejects Carleton University administration attempt to stifle discussion of issues related to Israel, Palestine and the Middle East.
- Acadia University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The author of a new book on antisemitism kicks off a Western Canada tour Sept. 17 to sound an alarm that a coalition of MPs (CPCCA) is intent on outlawing criticism of Israel as being antisemitic, posing a significant threat to free speech.
- Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- A Different Kind of Safe Space
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
- EducationSources.ca
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to see my employer stand up for the free speech rights of the faculty.
- Endarkenment: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and the Attack on Free Speech
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Many today find the idea of free speech appalling -- an awful fact to those who believe in freedom, quaint as it sounds. Left-liberals agitate to prevent disagreeable expression. Their masked street allies physically attack those who engage in it.
- Excerpts from secretly recorded meeting between Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and faculty
Resource Type: Audio Published: 2017 Lindsay Shepherd, a Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student and teaching assistant, landed in hot water with the university over a video clip, featuring controversial University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, she used in a critical thinking course. After receiving complaints, the university claimed she created a toxic environment. Shepherd had a meeting with faculty and administration, here are excerpts from the secretly recorded conversation.
- The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
- The High Cost of Skepticism
What happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 Heres what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.
- If this is feminism...
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity politics run amok; at worst it is a turf war.
- Inside Lindsay Shepherds heroic, insulting, brave, destructive, possibly naïve fight for free speech
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017
- Jenny Peto speaks at UBC, downtown Vancouver on Palestinian rights, threats to academic freedom
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Jenny Peto, whose Master's thesis was attacked in the Ontario legislature for being anti-semitic, is speaking in Vancouver on Fri. at UBC and Sat. at SFU Harbour Centre on the growing threats to academic freedom around Israel and Palestine.
- Jewish Group Commends UofT Provost for Supporting Freedom of Inquiry
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Jewish group defends University of Toronto's support for academic freedom in the face of attacks on thesis questionning the misuse of the Holocaust for political purposes.
- Kathleen Stock is the real victim of hate here
Resource Type: Article Published: 2021
- Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
- Outspoken professor stokes free-speech debate at East Coast university
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments, stoking a national debate about free speech on campus amid calls for his ouster from the Wolfville, N.S., school.
- A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
- The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff
Resource Type: Article Published: 2022 The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.
- The Salaita Affair
Lessons Heard and Lessons Learned Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Professor Steven Salaita was to begin his new faculty appointment in Fall 2014 as a tenured Associate Professor in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His appointment was vetted through the multi-layer levels that are a mainstay of North American universities faculty appointment process. However, on August 1, 2014, the chancellor of UIUC Phyllis Wise informed Salaita that he did not have a faculty job at UIUC. The storm this di-hiring created amongst North American academics was unprecedented.
- Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Science and liberation
Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The conservative movements attack on science has several prongs. Where they can attain government office, as in Canada, they use the highly effective tools of funding and de-funding, and regulation and de-regulation, to control government scientists and embolden private interests. The goal is to transfer power and resources from public services and public science to private institutions, while often appealing to moral and religious doctrines in the process.
- Seriously Free Speech Committee
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
- Suppressing TVO video, stifling free speech, is making Wilfrid Laurier unsafe
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The university is wrong to castigate a grad student and teaching assistant for showing to her students a debate on TVOs The Agenda that featured controversial professor Jordan Peterson.
- Thought police strike again as Wilfrid Laurier grad student is chastised for showing Jordan Peterson video
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant has been identified as transphobic and sanctioned for last week showing her class an excerpt of a video debate involving the controversial University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. In fact, her supervising professor, Nathan Rambukkana, told her that by showing the video to her Canadian Communication in Context class, it basically was like
neutrally playing a speech by Hitler
- Trans ideology has captured the university
Resource Type: Article Published: 2022
- The University of Toronto
A History Resource Type: Book Published: 2002
- When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence - The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western democracies.
- Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
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