[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [lib-plic] Columbia Univ. Prof. Rashid Khalidi: "Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom Are Necessary For Unpopular and Difficult Ideas" * @ Democracy Now

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI

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> * Columbia U. Prof. Rashid Khalidi: "Freedom of Speech and Academic
> Freedom Are Necessary For Unpopular and Difficult Ideas" *
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> After months of closed-door hearings a, faculty committee at Columbia
> University released a report that largely cleared professors of Middle
> Eastern studies of charges that they were intimidating students and 
> stated
> that there was no evidence of anti-Semitism. We hear professor Rashid
> Khalidi speaking at a teach-in on academic freedom.
>
> Listen/Watch/Read
> http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/06/1421213
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> ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors 
> and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that 
> employ them."
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> ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: 
> a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades 
> ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."
>
> -- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of 
> Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de 
> ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151
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Al Kagan
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