I’m increasingly immersed in my work out here now (yesterday I interviewed Tom Oberheim and Roger Linn–amazing and educational!), so this will be my last post on the #6party occupation, which ended Sunday when the police were called to escort the demonstrators from the building. (Also, I’d like to blog about other stuff.) 1. Regardless …
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Other People’s Statements
#6party in their own words. CKUT press release on the James Admin occupation CKUT response to the Provost’s memo QPIRG statement on the occupation Also, the hate mail is starting to roll in. More on that later.
James Admin Occupation, Day 3: Should Student Government be Allowed to Govern Students?
I’m writing this from a hotel in California, so I can’t very easily tell you what’s going on inside James Admin. Luckily, you have other sources you can turn to for that. Instead, I want to focus on the issues that the occupiers are trying to highlight. Why is a group of independent students occupying …
James Admin Occupation at McGill, Day 2
Things you need to know: 1. Students are occupying the James Administration building in protest of Deputy Provost Morton Mendelson’s efforts to de-fund CKUT and QPIRG. 2. For reasons that will have to be considered in another post, all McGill faculty, staff and students will now apparently receive an email any time anyone at a …
Media@McGill Occupy Event
Friday was an all-day event around #occupy organized by Media@McGill. You’ll get the full report on the M@M website, no doubt. But for me, some of the highlights: 1. The degree to which the event wasn’t just academic spectatorship of social change. Local Occupy Montreal activists showed up and participated in the workshops. The evening …
Academic Freedom
But first, more institutional politics. I’ve agreed to be on a committee out of the vice-provost’s office which is organizing a 1-day symposium on academic freedom in April, which could well lead to a written policy on academic freedom for the university, to be submitted for approval to academic senate and the board of governors. …
Not blacked out, but I won’t post on anything else until tomorrow
I realize I should say something in support of the internet blackout going on today. You can learn more at Wikipedia. Yes, we should be terrified of these initiatives, which place a few companies in the position of judge and jury, and further enshrines the profit motive as the first principle of public policy on …
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