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Dear Friends,
This was sent by a friend in Canada who is a tireless activist on Indigneous
Peoples Sovereignty questions. I wanted to share it not to point to my own
case, but because the lessons and concepts are wide-reaching and critical for
all of us inside and outside of academia. This is especially true as the
contradictions unfold, the gaps between rulers and ruled widen and the stakes,
costs and tragedies mount exponentially.
Jim Craven
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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:44:14 -0800 (PST)
From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pathological Megalomania
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How fitting: and on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary
interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to
attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the
protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;
this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.
Article 26 (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the
human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance, and
friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall
further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Article 29 (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the
free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject
only to such limitations as are determined by the law solely for the
purpose of securing due recognition and respect for rights and freedoms of
others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and
the general welfare in a democratic society.
Preamble: Universal Declaration of Human Rights December 10, 1948
....Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have outraged the
conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings
shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want
has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse,
as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human
rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Now, therefore, the General Assembly proclaims this Universal Declaration
of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and
all nations, to the end that every individual and every org...
(yeah right... obviously not at Clark College)
Unfuckingbelievable...hang in there Jim.
cheers JS
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I just received a memo from our illustrious Interim Vice-President of
> Instruction who has reviewed the e-mails I was ordered to turn over at risk
of
> dismissal from employment for refusal to turn them over, and he, a music
> teacher/administrator wannabe, has determined that my e-mails are personal
and
> not in accordance with the "business" of Clark College. Apparently, the
> "business" of Clark College is not ideas and education or indeed even the
> touted campus-wide abilities (Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Effective
> Citizenship, Information/Technology Awareness, Global/Multicultural
> Perspectives, Communication and Life-long Learning), it is most certainly
not
> freedom of speech (except for insider toadies and sycophants), rather the
> "business" of Clark College is landscape, architecture (with the names of
> illustrious adminstrators on them), lots of paperwork from meaningless
> committees producing meaningless stuff from meaningless insiders, and of
> course, big offices for megalomanical administrators with very big
> egos--without portfolio.
>
> So because there is no professional reason for a professor of economics to
be
> writing to pen-l, I have been ordered not to use the campus system to wirte
or
> respond to pen-l. Because there is no professional reason for the Advisor of
> the Native American Student Club to be reading and writing on Sovernet-l,
or
> Warriornet or to be communicating with the Blackfoot Reservation at
Browning,
> I am barred from using campus computers to write to them and other Indians
on
> the net. Because there is no relationship between any of the forementioned
> "campus-wide abilities"--especially Effective Citizenship amd
> Global/Multicultural Perspectives--and reading or writing about or doing
> activism dealing with Genocide or Indian Sovereignty or Racism, I am barred
> from using campus resources to be in contact with a host of international
> sources on those subjects.
>
> All of this comes from administrators who could not pass even my first exam
in
> an Intro Course in Economics presuming to know what my "professional
> responsibilities" and subjects of coverage are as a teacher of economics and
> practicing economist. This order has never been given in the history of
Clark
> College--even to one faculty member caught and cited by the State Ethics
> Committe (where they still threaten to take my e-mails--please do, I really
> hope they do) downloading child pornography and even soliciting pornographic
> polaroids from children according to press accounts and the Washington State
> Patrol who went through his computer (only after a warrant was obtained--and
> subsequently blown which is why he got off of criminal charges). And even
> after being written up in the Campus Newspaper for work on Residential
Schools
> and with solicitous e-mails from the College President Dr. Hasart
encouraging
> my work on Indian Issues, apparently now, my contact with a long list of
> listservs and scholars and activists is not consistent with my "professional
> responsibilities" or the "business" of Clark College.
>
> So Michael, would you please sign me up at this address:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]? And all who care to write me, please use this address
> instead of my Clark address.
>
> This of course is only the beginning. The more wreckless the administration
> gets, the more they reveal their true intentions and their weaknesses. I for
> one will comply with every order (according to the order I could not even
use
> the campus computer to contact pen-l to notify pen-l not to contact me at
the
> College) and, in the principles of Akido, their wreckless, arrogant and
> fascistic contempt for due process, freedom of speech, academic freedom,
their
> own campus-wide abilities and my own professional responsibilities will only
> reveal them for what they are and what they intend--and will, thus, become a
> counter-force against them.
>
> Because many (not all ) administrators are typically sycophants,
narcissists,
> megalomaniacs, control/power freaks and intellectually/life experience
> challenged, they invariably sew the seeds of their own destruction. This was
> the case of the past Dean who was finally turfed out (a close friend of this
> present Interim Vice-President) with a relatively good reference (at least
> that did not tell all) and a baldface--lie cover story as to why he was
> leaving. Typical at many institutions I suspect.
>
> For all who have sent their kind letters of support, I will now contact you
> individually to give my heartfelt thanks. I will of course fight this and it
> is very clear that it is but another atttempt to set up an insubordination
> situation or cause me to go unstable mentally--to be used to facilitate
> dismissal. The good news is that these pathetic souls are so dumb, they use
> the same Modus Operandi over and over and thus reveal "patterns" of behavior
> of themselves--very useful in a wide legal discovery net--more than
> revealing--or even engineering--patterns of behavior on my part that may be
> useful to them.
>
> Again thanks to all for your support and most of all for teaching me about
so
> many things I need to know to be a competent teacher and practicioner of
> economics---and activist.
>
> Jim Craven
>
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