[Peace] let's make C-U a "city of refuge" for Steven Salaita

[John W.]

Would that C-U was also a "refuge city" for some of us, with less
notoriety, who have lived here for years.



On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

Let's publish it for the world - a "Pledge of Resistance," if you will -
> that while we would certainly understand perfectly well why Steven Salaita
> might have a bad taste in his mouth about re-accepting his appointment to
> the University of Illinois when his appointment is re-instated, if he does
> accept it we will welcome him back into the Champaign-Urbana community with
> open arms, and form a "band of brothers" to protect him from the
> News-Gazette until the Snooze-Gazoo accepts that further attempts to harass
> Salaita and abridge his First Amendment and employee rights will be totally
> futile, Then they'll have to content themselves with nostalgia for the
> racist Chief mascot. Oops, did I say "mascot"? I meant to say "symbol."
>
> ===
>
> Robert Reuel Naiman
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> Just Foreign Policy
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