From: eve.lyman@bostonmobilization.org
Date: Apr 12, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: Urgent - DEFEND FREE SPEECH AT HARVARD! today
Please come out & show your support for students' right
to speak out against the CIA & Dept of Homeland Security.
Today! Tuesday. 2:50 at the Science Center.
1 Oxford Street. Close to the Harvard Square T.
The Administration has pledged to shut down a nonviolent
student demonstration against torture and indefinite
detention, outside an event hosted by the CIA & Dept of
Homeland Security at the Harvard Science Center tomorrow.
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"This demonstration does not have our approval and you
will not be allowed to demonstrate."
-Letter from Associate Dean of the College Monday morning
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STAND UP FOR FREE SPEECH. TUESDAY.
From 2:55 to 3:15 outside the Science Center.
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Letter while maroon’d in “office hours” to which only few come: The objection to demonstrations seems a trifle counter to the spirit of a university where debate–even the most searing–is supposedly welcomed and fostered as a means to explore vital topics. Exploration is even more important than knowledge (what a heretical statement…such an axiom only mildly signals my disagreement with the Enlightenment era concepts that still ground academies).
The patrician class has a way of octopussying the world, to say nothing of their stomping grounds (Harvard being an essentially high-patrician enclave to which even the maids who serve meals (meaning all “minorities”) may brainwash themselves into believing that they’ve arrived). (Cue “The Jeffersons” theme song.)
If you go to the protest, please try not to get arrested; nowadays, it’s not so much a badge of protest-experience than a pain in the a**.
Besides, the world needs you for your up coming job (hint hint prayer prayer).
Jonathan, when are you going to start blogging? huh? Huh?
What good does it do for me to put this here, I have to send you an email.