We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, October 30, 2017

Isolating radicals: America's new academic blacklisting

Click here to access article by Steven Salaita from The New Arab. 

I was astonished to see this article in a rather conservative Arab website. Could it be that Zionists have more power than I thought by suppressing such an article in any left website in the US?
An emboldened right-wing media industry, long hostile to what it considers a disproportionately liberal academe, has ramped up its efforts to punish radical scholars in the wake of Donald Trump's election. 

While its proponents often conflate "liberal" and "left", there's now a long list of leftist academics who have been reprimanded or disciplined by their employers, many of them black, all of them deploring structural racism in the United States.
The same persecution has happened to the author Salaita as happened to Norman Finkelstein, and Salaita has reportedly endured so much that he is leaving academia.
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