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Hey Dan, I completely agree with you on the point about tenure being a divisive concept, one that protects the elite few, meanwhile increasingly vast amounts of university teaching and research labor are conducted by the many who are unprotected. I have no illusions about the university as is. And as we've talked about, I'm not looking to preserve the status quo. The question for me is what should we be fighting for, how should we be organizing. And I think part of it is to have an acute and macro sense of how the university works. Of course, I'm not always sure I want to do that work. After all, the university is my job, not my life. But what's the distinction? These are the things I've been thinking through, among many other in the midst of this moment.
That distinction though and the blurriness therein is where I slightly disagree with your take on Salaita. I think for academics speaking publicly about the subjects for which they also write and research, its unclear where one is being marked for political speech as a citizen and academic speech. In my read the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is somewhat unclear on this too as they suggest that faculty speaking as citizens is also a matter of academic freedom protections. That blurriness is also made clear as the reason he was unhired was not because of whether he had the right to say and do as a citizen but because Zionist donors claimed that they feared he would create an uncivil and unsafe environment in his classrooms and with Jewish colleagues on campus. So, it was about his ability to perform his academic duties.
I am intrigued by your question at the end... but then again, so much appears to elude the so-called left...
From Salaita to Wisconsin: Connecting the Dots
By: Karma R. Chávez Photo Credit: Cap Times Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed into law his draconian and controversial budget yesterday. The budget contains many, many bad things in it. Most directly impacting my own life is the $250 million cut to the UW system and the part that removes...
From Salaita to Wisconsin: Connecting the Dots
Posted Jul 13, 2015 at Madison Mutual Drift
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"Another Budget is Possible" Rally Speech
Posted Jun 15, 2015 at Madison Mutual Drift
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Open Letter to Alder John Strasser on Privilege and Discrimination
Posted Feb 25, 2015 at Madison Mutual Drift
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Build Schools, Not Jails - Save UW Rally
Posted Feb 14, 2015 at Madison Mutual Drift
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Guest Post: Working for Trans Health and Self-Determination
Posted Nov 15, 2014 at Madison Mutual Drift
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Ferguson to Madison: Dane County Jail Proposals Perpetuate Racial Disparities
Posted Oct 21, 2014 at Madison Mutual Drift
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Abolition Now for Dane County
Karma R. Chávez I believe very much in the definition of prison abolition offered by Critical Resistance, which defines it as “a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.” Because of my strong view against the prison industrial... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2014 at Madison Mutual Drift
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Let Them Have Weddings: Cops, Cake, and (In)equality
Posted Jun 17, 2014 at Madison Mutual Drift
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Ethnic Studies at UW: A Personal, Political, and Intellectual Demand
In late April, I attended the second half of a forum on the University of Wisconsin campus designed to challenge calls to consolidate the three ethnic studies programs (Chican@ and Latin@ Studies, Asian American Studies, and American Indian Studies) with the historic Afro-American Studies Department, which was created out of... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2014 at Madison Mutual Drift
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