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  1. 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..
  2. 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."
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Acadia University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  6. 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.
  7. Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  9. Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
  10. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. '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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
    Here’s what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.
  21. 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.
  22. Inside Lindsay Shepherd’s heroic, insulting, brave, destructive, possibly naïve fight for free speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Kathleen Stock is the real victim of hate here
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. Science and liberation
    Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The conservative movement’s 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.
  36. Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  37. Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
  38. 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.
  39. 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 TVO’s The Agenda that featured controversial professor Jordan Peterson.
  40. 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 …”
  41. Trans ideology has captured the university
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
  42. The University of Toronto
    A History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  43. 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.
  44. 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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