[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:6960] Jonnie Hargis on Democracy Now!

[Al Kagan]

FYI,  a follow-up on the civil liberties discussion tonight.

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>Subject: [SRRTAC-L:6960] Jonnie Hargis on Democracy Now!
>Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:20:56 -0700
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>Jonnie Hargis on Democracy Now!
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>http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/exile/dn20011011.ra&start="43:56.2"
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>UNIVERSITY WORKERS WALK OUT ON PATRIOTISM AS THE US WAGES WAR
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>(text from the Webactive web site)
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>One day after the September 11 attacks, a librarian at the UCLA research
>library sent out a mass e-mail to her coworkers citing a 1973 speech
>written by Gordon Sinclair titled "America: The Good Neighbor." Jonnie
>Hargis, who works in the same department of the library, sent out a mass
>e-mail response saying that the United States isn't such a good neighbor
>since it supports apartheid-like policies in Israel. He ended his email
>with the words, "So, who are the 'terrorists' anyway?" Library
>administrators got a hold of Hargis' response and said it violated a
>library policy prohibiting unsolicited messages that contain political or
>religious messages to be sent to department lists. Hargis was suspended
>without pay from Sept. 17 to 21, though the worker who sent the first mass
>e-mail has not been subjected to any disciplinary action. We have a clip of
>that speech, recorded in 1973, at the height of anti-US sentiment during
>the Vietnam War. The head of the library department told Hargis he was
>being suspended because his message "demonstrated a lack of sensitivity
>that went beyond incivility and became harassment," saying his comments
>"contribute to a hostile and threatening environment." The Coalition of
>Union Employees has filed a grievance with UCLA on behalf of Hargis.
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>Tape:
>Gordon Sinclair, "America: The Good Neighbor," Toronto 1973.
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>Guests:
>Jonnie Hargis, suspended for a week without pay from his position as
>research librarian at UCLA.
>Liza Go, union representative at the Coalition Of Union Employees.
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Al Kagan
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