David Graeber
From an article in Zmag:
[Anthropologist] David Graeber, was fired from Yale University a few days ago. Of course, that wasn’t the official explanation. The official one reads that “his contract wasn’t renewed” because of his lack of “collegiality”. If you would allow me to translate this: the “lack of collegiality” that David had showed was when he was trying to defend his graduate students who were graduate union organizers.
Union organizers are regularly targeted at Yale. When one brilliant graduate student organizer was almost kicked out for clearly fabricated reasons, David Graeber was the only member of her committee with the courage to openly stand up for her at that committee meeting, and then later at a faculty meeting. On David Graeber’s behalf, Yale graduate students have initiated a petition which has been signed by almost all graduate and good number of undergraduate students of anthropology.
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Posted 5/15/2005 01:17:00 PM by D. Ghirlandaio From Kerim Friedman :ZMag: [Anthropologist] David Graeber, was fired from Yale University a few days ago. Of course, that wasnt the official explanation. The official one reads that his contract wasnt renewed
The war on Academia continues… one only has to look around, as Dylan sang, “You don’t need a weather man To know which way the wind blows”…
David Price has done an extraordinary job of showing where we stand. coinkydink that I happened to stop by John Norvells page to see the apathy of the system. We live in truly sad times when things like the following can happen: The Education Department this (2004)summer destroyed more than 300,000 copies of a booklet designed for parents to help their children learn history after the office of Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife complained that it mentioned the National Standards for History, which she has long opposed. [Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Jean Merl, "Booklet that Upset Mrs. Cheney Is History," The Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2004]
Addendum, how many readers are aware of the Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin was pushed out by the White House in December to submit his resignation without being given any reason, Senate Democrats disclosed last week at a hearing to consider President Bush’s nomination of his successor, Or of the so called “Academic Bill of Rights” pushed by right wing whackos’?
Have you no shame? The paragraph statement re Graeber is pure nonsense, wholly made up for the occasion by Graeber himself, and here you are treating it as tho it were a wholly objective account of what went on.
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Kerim and Biella ‘m4dd0g’ Coleman have already publicized what Yale is doing to David Graeber so I won’t repeat it here. I haven’t read his book but I have met David and remember him as funny, articulate, and approachable. What is more, he is also