¡A Cazar Brujas!
Un nuevo artículo por dos escritoras latinoamericanas compara ésta lucha en medio de una universidad "progresista" con otras en el contexto de sus países natalicios. Y se encuentra el eco de prácticas dictatoriales. Ver:
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/110648.php
Preston Reservoir Progress Association
Our Association is made up of residents from the City of Darebin. At our last meeting the issue of the sacking of Robert Austin was raised. There was deep concern expressed at the way in which this academic was treated, and it sees indicative of the unprincipled attacks that are taking place around this country on decent citizens who are attending to their responsibilities in the most proper way as they see it.
There was a time when we considered places of education as standard bearers in our country, where debate and difference welcomed and enjoyed. Universities and other places of academic learning produced some of the finest minds in our country. No more, what we are now seeing is almost cloning, where different opinions are no longer welcomed, but simply a nuisance to be silenced.
We felt most strongly about this and there urgently request that Dr. Austin be re instated and that he also be provided with documented evidence of whatever misdemeanor with which he is being accused.
Yours sincerely
Marion Harper, Hon.Secretary. Preston Reservoir Progress Association.
34 Gisborne Crescent, Reservoir 3073 [April 2006]
Hunger strike - University of Miami
Janitors, housekeepers and groundkeepers at the University of Miami have been demanding what is a simple, basic human right: to join a union. Their employer is threatening and intimidating them, and the university is refusing to support their struggle. They are demanding that former Clinton administration official Donna Shalala, president of the university, intervene in the dispute and tell the company (UNICCO) to recognize these workers' right to form a union. Shalala is stubbornly refusing. Both the workers and a half dozen university students have gone on a liquids-only hunger strike. Civil rights leaders, politicians and labour leaders have rallied to their cause. The workers are laying their lives on the line for dignity at work. Already, several have been hospitalized. For more, and to email support, see
http://www.labourstart.org/
