CANADIANS PLEASE TAKE NOTE, PLEASE TAKE ACTION

Personna non grata in Canada? I think not! 

MOHAWK COLLEGE SEEKS TO FORCE

CANCELLATION OF THE FINKELSTEIN

LECTURE IN HAMILTON

Canadians and lovers of our remnants of free speech, please act on this. It only takes a second and is for an important cause, not just the event itself but also to let “them” know we are not passive and accepting of these neoNazi tactics.

CJPME ~ Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

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TO SEND AN EMAIL 

TO MOHAWK COLLEGE

Dear friends of CJPME,

Late Friday, CJPME received a letter (see left) from Mohawk College threatening the cancellation of CJPME's upcoming lecture in Hamilton, ON.  The College demanded that CJPME pay an additional $1500 for 8 security officers, or have its event cancelled.  CJPME had already completed payment of $519 for rental of a 190 seat auditorium, so the move by Mohawk would effectively quadruple the rental cost of hosting the event.  CJPME interprets the move by Mohawk as a discriminatory attempt to force the cancellation of the event. 

  

Please click here to send an email to the President and other administrators of Mohawk College.

Dr. Norman Finkelstein is a Jewish-American scholar on the Middle East.  Finkelstein was awarded his doctorate by Princeton University in 1988, and has subsequently taught at Rutgers, New York University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College and DePaul University (Chicago). His academic research has concentrated on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its representation in political discourse.

The move at Mohawk echoes a trend which CJPME and other social justice groups in Canada have noticed in recent years. 

Canadian universities make it increasingly difficult to host events by socially progressive speakers. 

Yet instead of outright refusing the events, these universities insist on outrageous "security" charges or administrative delays which make the events practically and financially unviable.

We all know that those coming to listen to Finkelstein are not the problem. If there was to be a problem, you can bet your bottom dollar that it would come from the JDL or some such organization.

Thanks for helping out.  These are battles that we need to fight, and when we put our voices together, we can win.

Thomas Woodley

President, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
Telephone: 438-380-5410

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