{"id":4828,"date":"2015-01-11T21:58:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T05:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2015-01-11T21:58:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T05:58:45","slug":"first-peoples-palestine-and-the-crushing-of-free-speech-steven-salaita-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2015\/01\/first-peoples-palestine-and-the-crushing-of-free-speech-steven-salaita-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"First Peoples, Palestine, and the Crushing of Free Speech &#8211; Steven Salaita in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpavancouver.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/05\/first-peoples-palestine-and-the-crushing-of-free-speech\/\"><b>First Peoples, Palestine, and the Crushing of Free Speech<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Monday, January 12 at 7:30pm<br \/>\nSFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Segal Rooms; Vancouver, BC<br \/>\nFacebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/635499719894700\/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&amp;source=1\"><span class=\"s3\">EVENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Wednesday, January 14 at 5:00pm<br \/>\n<\/span>Coach House at Green College, UBC; 6201 Cecil Green Park Road (off NW Marine Drive, opposite Chan Centre and Rose Parkade)<br \/>\nFacebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/741277869296139\/?source=1\"><span class=\"s3\">EVENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">A talk by Professor Steven Salaita, who is at the centre of an international protest against academic censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Salaita, author of six books and many articles, was \u201cunhired\u201d from a tenured position in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois when donors pressured the university because of Salaita\u2019s tweets on his personal Twitter account about the Gaza massacre last summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Because this action is widely recognized as part of a broad effort to silence voices for Palestinian rights and justice, and as one incident in the long history of colonial treatment of indigenous peoples, the case has attracted international attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Salaita\u2019s books will be available at this event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofpalestine.ca\/?p=4547\"><span class=\"s3\">Steven Salaita &amp; Academic Censorship<\/span><\/a>\u201c: an interview on Voice of Palestine<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Peoples, Palestine, and the Crushing of Free Speech Monday, January 12 at 7:30pm SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Segal Rooms; Vancouver, BC Facebook EVENT Wednesday, January 14 at 5:00pm Coach House at Green College, UBC; 6201 Cecil Green Park Road (off NW Marine Drive, opposite Chan Centre and Rose Parkade) Facebook EVENT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2156],"tags":[554,583147,555,2605,1750,1010719,37],"class_list":["post-4828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-corporate-university","tag-academic-freedom","tag-first-peoples","tag-free-speech","tag-palestine","tag-sfu","tag-steven-salaita","tag-ubc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}