[Peace-discuss] My letter to the NG, responding to their very negative editorial

[Karen Aram]

Carl

NOBODY DE-PLATFORMED THE SPEAKER. 

> As Rosa Luxembourg wrote, “The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE DOING!!!





> On Feb 5, 2018, at 10:31, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The point of the editorial is nevertheless correct, that even speakers defending crimes, should not be 'de-platformed.'
> 
> For the anti-war movement to try to do so is to give the Right an easy victory: they can shift their ground to a defense of free speech rather than a defense of the crimes the speakers are supporting.
> 
> As Rosa Luxemburg wrote, "The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
> 
> —CGE
> 
> 
>> On Feb 5, 2018, at 7:15 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Protesters not 'naive' students
>> Mon, 02/05/2018 - 7:00am | The News-Gazette
>> 
>> The News-Gazette editorial board got it wrong in the Jan. 30 editorial related to the rally at the University of Illinois College of Law.
>> 
>> They refer to those supporting Professor Francis Boyle and those protesting the dean bringing Malcolm Stewart to speak at the college as "lemmings," and a "handful of naive and gullible students."
>> 
>> The majority were not only "not students," they were those with years of involvement in political issues such as "immigrant rights," "anti-war" and "support for labor."
>> 
>> Many had years of experience teaching or working within the system, many possessed doctorates. Those who were students were clearly some of the best and brightest on campus, and all anyone had to do was listen to their speeches to know they were anything but "gullible or naive."
>> 
>> There was no prevention of freedom of speech, no where was the "speaker" blocked, intimated or threatened. The protesters never entered the building, never blocked the pathway, and stayed in the courtyard away from the building.
>> 
>> What the protesters insisted upon is their right to protest a speaker supporting an administration focused on "banning immigrants, DACA and Dreamers," forcible roundups by ICE and ignoring sanctuary cities rights, with federal takeovers, as well as a ban on Muslims from those nations which the U.S. is guilty of bombing and destroying.
>> 
>> 
>> KAREN ARAM
>> 
>> Urbana
>> 
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