RebLaw Day 2

screen_shot_2013-05-02_at_1-44-55_pm_t500x309See my summary of the first day of the conference here.

After the amazing first day of the conference I was not sure that level of radical knowledge could be sustained, but I was very wrong. The second day, despite not getting into the first session I wanted to because of overcrowding, was just as good.

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A Government of Popular Insurgency: An Interview with George Ciccariello-Maher

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Portrait of Tupac Amaru II from http://www.elhistoriador.com.ar/

I was going to wait to release this interview until I got a Spanish translation, but because of the egregious capitulation of Drexel University to white nationalist trolls who were throwing a temper tantrum over a joke by Ciccariello-Maher poking fun at the Chicken Little cry of “White Genocide” often made by the Far Right, a “genocide” not by murder or sterilization but by “miscegenation” and immigration. Considering that the United States is a colony and not in anyway a “traditional white land,” this claim of genocide is ridiculous. And yet Ciccariello-Maher is now being threatened by his employer Drexel University. So please, take some time to call or email Drexel University and calmly tell them that you support Ciccariello-Maher and academic freedom, and oppose universities caving in to white nationalism:

Niki Gianakaris
ngianakaris@drexel.edu
215.895.6741
And you can sign a Change.org petition as well.

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