Via Glen Coulthard: PROFESSOR STEVEN SALAITA FIRST PEOPLES, PALESTINE, AND THE CRUSHING OF FREE SPEECH AT SFU: Monday, January 12, 7:30 PM in the Segal rooms at Harbour Centre, 555 Hastings Street. AT UBC: Wednesday, January 14, 5 PM in the Coach House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road (off Marine Drive, near MOA) Free admission to both talks; Dr. Salaita’s books will be available at both. Professor Salaita is at the centre of an international protest against academic censorship. Author of six books and many articles, he was “unhired” from a tenured position in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois when donors pressured the university because of Salaita’s tweets on his personal Twitter account about the Gaza massacre this past summer. Because this action is widely recognized as part of a broad effort to silence voices for Palestinian rights and justice, and as one incident in the long history of colonial treatment of indigenous peoples, the case has attracted international attention. Co-sponsors: CanPalNet Canada-Palestine Association Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, SFU BIAC (Boycott Israeli Apartheid Coalition) UNJPPI (United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel) Building Bridges Vancouver Independent Jewish Voices SFU English Department SPHR-UBC (Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights) Critical Race and Postcolonial Feminist Theory Group-UBC Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Church
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