[Upd-discuss] Columbia Univ. Prof. Rashid Khalidi: "Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom Are Necessary For Unpopular and Difficult Ideas" * @ Democracy Now

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

* Columbia U. Prof. Rashid Khalidi: "Freedom of Speech and Academic
Freedom Are Necessary For Unpopular and Difficult Ideas" *
 
After months of closed-door hearings a, faculty committee at Columbia
University released a report that largely cleared professors of Middle
Eastern studies of charges that they were intimidating students and stated
that there was no evidence of anti-Semitism. We hear professor Rashid
Khalidi speaking at a teach-in on academic freedom.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/06/1421213

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ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151


		
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