Posts Tagged ‘NYCLU’
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Normally, I would follow up an email like the one below with an email or a phone call or a visit if I didn’t get a response. There have been times, though not recently, when I would post on Hunter-L if I didn’t get a sufficient response. Hunter-L being a main campus listserv for information and scandal and mischief.
However, these aren’t normal times (the NYCLU has recently filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for its stop-n-harass SWAT tactics of hundreds of thousands of People of Color in NYC – annually) and I didn’t get a response and I’m feeling, sniff, a bit sensitive.
So (not personal, just business):
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Tags: Campus Security, NYCLU, NYPD, police harassment, rent-a-cops
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
NYCLU Hammers NYPD.
Everybody Say Amen!
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April 15, 2009 NYCLU Press Release — The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against the NYPD on behalf of a Queens man who was ejected from the old Yankee Stadium last August after trying to use the restroom during “God Bless America.â€
The lawsuit maintains that Bradford Campeau-Laurion, a 30-year-old lifelong baseball fan and resident of Astoria, was the victim of religious and political discrimination on Aug. 26, 2008 when police officers forcibly restrained and ejected him from Yankee Stadium after he tried to walk past an officer during the playing of “God Bless America.â€
The Spin: New York Yankees + NYPD + Nature Calls + God = 281 articles, according to Google, as of 6:47 p.m. April 15.
A News Sampling:
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Tags: NY Yankees, NYCLU, NYPD
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Outside Governor Paterson's Office on Third Avenue, Manhattan, between 40th and 41st streets, mid town, March 25.
New York Civil Liberties Union, March 25, 2009 — Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied today in front of Governor David Paterson’s Manhattan office, urging him and the State’s legislative leaders to enact a sweeping overhaul of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, the infamous mandatory-minimum drug sentencing scheme.
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Tags: NYCLU, Reverend Calvin Butts, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Russell Simmons
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. — Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
At the meeting I’ve referred to as this first blip on the radar,  I revealed my contact with the New York Civil Liberties Union but didn’t reveal my contact with the National Writers Union, which had responded positively to my request for support.
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Tags: academic freedom, Academic Politics, Bob Stanley, BORG, First Amendment, grade appeals, Joel Zucker, Larry Shore, National Writers Union, NYCLU, Office Politics, SLAM, Student Press Law Center, Terminator
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. — Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
Now, colleague Larry Shore, former chair of the department’s grade appeals committee which I had been describing in several venues “as one of the most corrupt” at Hunter if not CUNY, candidly responded to the question, “Recommend For New Business, Wednesday, Grade Tampering in F/M – A Big Barnacle: Is a Discussion Needed?” His comments, however, never made it into the department minutes.
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Tags: academic freedom, Academic Politics, Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, First Amendment, NYCLU, Office Politics
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Tags: 4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse, Academic Politics, CUNY, Hunter, Jay Roman, NYCLU, Office Politics, Shanti Thaku, The Academy
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
I am recommending the New York Times’ Stanley Fish February 16 column, Is the Academy Different? for the benefit of the 4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse*Â and other colleagues confused about tenets and canons of Academic Freedom.
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Tags: 4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse, AAUP, Academic Bullies, academic freedom, Department of Film and Media Studies, First Amendment Rights, Hunter College, National Writers Union, NYCLU, PEN, Professional Staff Congress, PSC, Racism in Higher Education, Stanley Fish
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
This information was originally published in the WORD, Â but a student – Gresham Gregory who does reviews for the WORD and is involved in all manner of multimedia – insisted that the message needed to be disseminated on a grander scale. So, it was posted on Hunter listservs and now here. Also, I realized because of Gregory, that this info could be important for those students [of all ages] coming to the Big Apple with their cameras. At the bottom of this message, are important links.
Briefly:
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Tags: Hunter College, journalism, journalism education, NYC Tourists, NYCLU, NYPD
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Must Reading for the 4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse and Other Colleagues
Friday, February 27th, 2009I am recommending the New York Times’ Stanley Fish February 16 column, Is the Academy Different? for the benefit of the 4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse*Â and other colleagues confused about tenets and canons of Academic Freedom.
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Tags: 4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse, AAUP, Academic Bullies, academic freedom, Department of Film and Media Studies, First Amendment Rights, Hunter College, National Writers Union, NYCLU, PEN, Professional Staff Congress, PSC, Racism in Higher Education, Stanley Fish
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