Campus Antifascist Network

    The Campus Antifascist Network (CAN) condemns in the strongest possible terms the campaign of slander and harassment directed at Randa Jarrar, an accomplished creative writer and Associate Professor of English at California State University, Fresno, over her personal tweets that call attention to Barbara Bush’s documented racism.  The University Administration’s claim that Professor Jarrar’s comments were “beyond free speech” are de facto violations of her rights to free speech and academic freedom.   CAN has initiated a petition,…

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Columbia University College Republicans’ broadest possible understanding of free speech has been used to corner the University into welcoming fascists and white-nationalists into academic space, as if such political stances were not themselves instances of violence inflicted on the academic community at Columbia and the community surrounding it.  The Campus Antifascist Network has been a strong advocate for scholars and students under threat by the alt-right.  It has released a statement of support for Dartmouth scholar Mark Bray when he…

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