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(The letter below is part of what I gather many academics, cultural workers and athletes are doing: boycotting all things associated with the state of Arizona. This was one of the crucial battlegrounds in the struggle against apartheid.) From: Patrick Bond [bo...@ukzn.ac.za] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:08 PM To: XXXX Subject: Re: YYYY tenure review Dear XXXX, This is just to let you know that I'm absolutely delighted to play a role in supporting Arizona State University's assessment of faculty, especially in your important school, but will have to delay playing a part in the requested tenure review. I hope you can let the relevant authorities know, that the day that SB-1070 is repealed, I will be in a position to provide voluntary intellectual labor to Arizona's higher education system. But not a day before, I'm very sorry to say. Yours, Patrick Bond Senior Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa > XXXX wrote: > > Dear Professor Bond, > > I am writing to ask if you would be willing to review Professor > YYYY's tenure file this summer. I would send you her > material in late May (her book and other publications, vitae, > personal statement) and you would have most of the summer to conduct > the review. I am attaching a copy of her vitae as of Feb. if you > wish to review it; she plans to have a couple of other articles > under review by late May as well. Please let me know if you would be > able to conduct this review. Thank you very much! > > XXXX *** La Opinion Calls for National Boycott of Arizona La Opinion Editorial April 24, 2010 http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=985c78d066318e82c7477d75a0c87913 Espanol: http://www.impre.com/laopinion/opinion/2010/4/24/diga-no-a-arizona-184974-1.html An editorial in the Los Angeles Spanish-language daily La Opinion calls for a national boycott of Arizona after the governor signed the nation's toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday. The new law makes it a misdemeanor to be undocumented, and requires police to question people about their immigration status if the police officers have "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country illegally. While lawyers challenge the law's constitutionality in the courts, editors of La Opinion call on U.S. residents to take direct action by boycotting all goods and services from Arizona. We call on those who believe in the U.S. Constitution to boycott the state of Arizona. The anti-immigrant bill signed yesterday in Arizona is a violation of our right to be free from police harassment based on the way we look. SB 1070 requires the police to question people about their immigration status if they suspect they are in the U.S. illegally, without any objective basis for that suspicion. This gives free reign to racial profiling and the discriminatory actions that will ensue for being -or appearing to be- Latino. The law is a violation of basic civil rights. It also wrongfully asserts that states can set their own immigration policy when that is the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government. The Arizona law is based on inflammatory depictions of the undocumented -repeated by Governor Jan Brewer when she signed the executive order- to justify such a repressive piece of legislation. There are two ways to fight this law: one is in the courts and the other is through direct action. As for the first, lawyers will be filing lawsuits challenging the law's constitutionality. The latter, direct action, is a call to boycott the state of Arizona. We express our outrage in the face of this abuse of power. We call for a boycott of all goods and services from Arizona and pledge to avoid tourism in the state as well. Let's send a signal of our disgust with an arrogant state government that asserts powers it does not have in order to persecute a minority population. In the name of protecting the people, this law puts the public's safety in jeopardy. The undocumented will be too afraid to report a crime for fear of being deported. Police departments across the country (who incidentally oppose this law) understand the need for the public to have trust in authorities so they can fulfill their mission. Racial profiling is unacceptable. It is a serious mistake to think that you can tell an undocumented person by the way he or she looks. This law is a product of ignorance and an act of irresponsibility. Say "No" to Arizona. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
