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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: February 2006
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! While VSU has not come in yet, student unions have been shedding staff since late last year in waves of redundancies. Vannessa (RMIT Student Union). See also Adam Morton's article at http:/ www.theage.com.au/. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 9:54 am. Links to this post. Student rep challenges VC. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 9:00 pm. Links to this post. VC ignores student concerns. Dear Ms Gardner,.
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: May 2006
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 10:00 am. Links to this post. Tariq Ali supports campaign. Tariq Ali is a popular historian, political campaigner and co-editor of New Left Review. He recently confirmed support for the campaign to Defend our Universities and stop the sacking of Dr Robert Austin: see letter from Professor Richard Harris (California State University) here. Links to this post. Fighting Fund: with thanks.
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: March 2006
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Professor Richard Harris (Cal. State U.) wrote a critique of the Austin dismissal, published here. In view of the misinformation disseminated by management, we now publish the debate between Professor Harris, Professor Manfred Steger (ex-Head, RMIT School of International and Community Studies) and Dr Robert Austin which ensued. See here. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 6:00 pm. Links to this post. Links to this post.
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: October 2005
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Stoush: the message for academics. The message is pretty clear for academics. If you publish racist articles and barrack for extreme-right wing racist organisations, and though you might have classes cancelled on ‘security’ grounds, you’ll keep your job. Defend the rights of students to organise, and go to the trouble of providing supplementary classes, and get yourself sacked." See stoush.net. Links to this post. Links to this post.
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: April 2007
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Undeterred by the facts, Murdoch's academic propaganda arm refused to publish a letter which corrected serious errors in an article late last year, and hints at its own complicity in the RMIT dismissal. See attached comments, and here. Carmen López is Salvadorean, Viviana Ramírez is Chilean. They know from experience how effectively political dismissal intensifies cultural conformism: see here. Links to this post. Iexcl;A Cazar Brujas!
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: April 2006
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Un nuevo artículo por dos escritoras populares 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. Pinchar aquí. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 7:42 pm. Links to this post. Preston Reservoir Progress Assoc. There was a time when we considered places of education as standard bearers in our countr...
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: November 2006
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Fighting Fund: with thanks. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 10:00 am. Links to this post. The limited but concrete gains in this dispute graphically demonstrate that decent-minded and committed supporters of public higher education, working together, can influence the political struggle to reclaim our universities as open democratic spaces, where full student participation and intellectual diversity overcome the ignoranc...
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: January 2006
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! CEPU delegate dismissal - Union Solidarity. The DOU committee urges your solidarity and support for dismissed Communications, Electrical and Postal Union delegate Peter Vining. Details and background here. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 10:00 am. Links to this post. Political victimisation of Australian academic. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 4:22 pm. Dismissal of Prominent Academic. Links to this post.
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: December 2005
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Growing public demand to reverse the political dismissal of RMIT academic:. Report in IndyMedia by Viviana Ramírez and Julio Henríquez here. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 11:13 am. Fifty at emergency protest. The campaign will continue into 2006. Watch this website for news and updates. Posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 5:11 pm. Pronunciamiento - reunión pública 30 nov 05. Como parte de la comunidad latinoa...
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Defend our universities! Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom!: November 2005
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Stop dismissal of Dr Robert Austin from RMIT. Defend academic freedom! Unanimous resolution at public forum. We call on RMIT Vice Chancellor Margaret Gardner to rescind the sacking of Austin forthwith, and provide a public statement reconfirming RMIT's commitment to academic freedom, proper process and the principles of natural justice. This meeting also declares our support for future activities on this issue if the matter remains unresolved, such as:. Links to this post. Defend our universities - Defen...