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Around 25% of the faculty staff signed this statement of solidarity which they have attempted to bring down. All official links to it are dead and the university shut down the faculty website that indicates who signed it. Seems REALLY strange that this teachers are basically trying to hide. How honorable to sign a statement of solidarity and then try to make sure noone knows who signed it. Can't make this stuff up:
As Evergreen faculty members:
We acknowledge that all of us who have power within the institution share responsibility for the racist actions of others. Furthermore, those of us who are white bear a particularly large share of that responsibility.
We acknowledge that we have a great deal of work to do in order to honor and live up to the demands made by student leaders during last week’s protests. (http://cooperpointjournal.com/2017/05/27/complete-list-of-student-demands).
We acknowledge that students of color and others who are underrepresented and underserved have been voicing their demands to us for some time (through the Students of Color Focus Groups of 2014, through their participation in authoring the Strategic Equity Plan from November, in Cooper Point Journal coverage, for example) and we have not yet truly listened and acted.
We acknowledge students’ right to protest, and affirm President Bridges’ recent decision not to use the misguided language of the current Student Conduct Code to punish the protestors.
We vehemently reject the claim that students have been violent simply because they have been loud and emphatic. There is a difference between exercising the right to freely voice an opinion and inciting violence—and that difference has nothing to do with volume or forcefulness. We support the demands made by students and honor the positive institutional change they have already achieved through their protests.
Our most urgent demands (below) center on the safety of those individuals who are currently most at risk. At the same time, we acknowledge that in the weeks and months to come our attention will need to turn to the larger structural issues students have identified.
In solidarity with students, we commit ourselves to: * Participating actively and self-critically in the annual mandatory trainings specified in the Memorandum of Understanding recently signed by the UFE and management bargaining teams. * Holding each other accountable when we act in racist ways against our colleagues or our students, according to shared language and understanding developed in the trainings. * Holding President Bridges accountable to the promises he made at the all-campus forum on May 26, 2017, and to the process of ongoing dialogue with student leaders. * Actively supporting the Strategic Plan put forward by the Equity and Inclusion Council, including providing substantive support to the Vice President & Vice Provost of Equity and Inclusion tasked with implementing and extending their work.
In solidarity with students, we call for the Evergreen administration to: * Center student perspectives in a persistent media approach to counter the alt-right narratives that are demonizing Evergreen and Day of Absence specifically. * Take seriously the threats made to individual community members and use all available institutional resources to protect them. * Demonstrate accountability by pursuing a disciplinary investigation against Bret Weinstein according to guidelines in the Social Contract and Faculty Handbook. Weinstein has endangered faculty, staff, and students, making them targets of white supremacist backlash by promulgating misinformation in public emails, on national television, in news outlets, and on social media.
We are angry and frustrated and concerned. We also believe, however, that if the College can muster a meaningful collective response to recent events, this can be a powerful lever for growth in student numbers, success, and equity–and for future institutional change. We urge the administration not to lead with fear, or a desire to suppress students’ voices. We urge them to let the energy and clarity of those voices carry us forward.
In solidarity, the undersigned faculty,
So Weinstein has endangered faculty, staff, students and made them the target of white supremacist backlash. Shame on all these dishonorable cowards. I can only presume that they are concerned about being ridiculed by media outlets. At least have the integrity to stand by your words. Currently, noone has access to who wrote this and who signed it. They are accusing their colleague of endangering students and can't bring themselves to put their name on the accusation.
Indoctrinate and brainwash your students into a hate-fueled idealogy...let them fight the idealogical battles for you....watch them get ridiculed on national media, possibly ruining chances of future employment and reputation....and then hide in the shadows when the shit hits the fan.
NOT ONE of those CRT profs have stood up and said something publically. While their students are ridiculed on national television because of what THEY taught them. At the end of the day....these kids, however misguided, are VICTIMS.
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