[Educationforall] Support UCSD Professor Ricardo Dominguez - Rally TODAY Thursday, April 8, 2010 10:00a.m..Geisel Library at UCSD

[Justin Akers Chacón]

> As members of the community, we want to show our support for prof.
> dominguez, his work as a Latino scholar and activist, and also show that 
> we
> will not stand for political pressure that interferes with our rights to
> provide humanitarian aid and support to border crossers in the san diego
> area. if local republican representatives can get prof. dominguez fired 
> for
> doing this kind of work, what might they try to do next to organizations.
>
> Ricardo Dominguez, UCSD art professor, is creating a project that will
> provide border crossers with GPS phones with information on water sources
> and border patrol points. he is also involved in a number of activist
> projects that promote access to the university for working class and
> latina/o students, through protesting recent fee hikes in the UC system.
>
> recently his work has been targeted by local republican representatives 
> who
> have written to the university saying they don't think taxpayer money 
> should
> go to projects that help illegal immigrants. as a result of their 
> pressure,
> he is being targeted by the university for investigation, and charges that
> his research (which promotes virtual civil disobedience, and which is the
> same research he was hired and promoted to tenure for producing) has 
> broken
> university laws. the university is considering revoking his tenure and 
> even
> firing him.
>
> prof. dominguez has the support of a wide number of faculty members and
> students and his own department chair for his research and advocacy work
> with the migrant project. petitions and more than 100 letters of support 
> for
> him have been sent from different campus organizations. there will also be 
> a
> rally today (thursday april 8) at 10 a.m.. in front of the geisel library 
> at
> UCSD during a meeting between him and the university president's office.
>
> For more information about the case
> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/06/activist-ucsd-professor-facing-unusual-scrutiny