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In Nationwide Student Revolt over Campus Racism, NY's Ithaca College is Latest School to Erupt. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZ. On Thursday, students at more than 1. The week began with African- American students forcing the ouster of two top officials at the University of Missouri over a lax response to racist incidents. On Thursday, student protesters at California’s Claremont Mc. Kenna College won another victory when Dean Mary Spellman resigned amidst similar protests. From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems. Mork & Mindy (season 1) Country of origin: United States: No. Two Claremont students had declared hunger strikes, just as student Jonathan Butler had at the University of Missouri. AMYGOODMAN: Now Ithaca College in upstate New York has joined the list of campuses in revolt. On Wednesday, up to 2,0. President Tom Rochon. The protesters, led by students of color, lay down on the rainy walkways in a mass die- in. They expressed solidarity with students on other campuses across the country. BRITTANYGARDNER: All over the nation, both on and off college campuses, we have seen those young and old fighting against injustice. We stand here in solidarity. Our hearts are heavy with the pain of Mizzou and Yale and Smith and every person of color on a college campus simply because of the color of their skin and the texture of their hair or their ancestry. This is a problem of the nation. However, how can a campus dedicated to preparing us for the real world not actively foster growth to our consciousness of oppression and privilege? AMYGOODMAN: The Ithaca College protesters accuse Ithaca College President Tom Rochon of responding inadequately to racist incidents, including one where an African- American graduate was repeatedly called a . On Thursday, the Ithaca College Faculty Council announced it will hold a no- confidence vote on Rochon later this month. Rochon has rejected the protesters’ demands, saying he will not step down. For more, we’re joined in Ithaca by two guests. Peyi Soyinka- Airewele is a professor of international and African politics at Ithaca College. And Dominick Recckio is the Ithaca College Student Body president. We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Dominick, let’s begin with you. What are your demands? DOMINICKRECCKIO: I think our demands are certainly that the students vote no confidence in President Rochon and that the students express what they think. We would certainly like President Rochon to resign, but I think going through with our democratic process of no confidence is our goal right now. JUAN GONZ. Living wage in Ithaca, New York, is very important. AMYGOODMAN: What sparked this specifically this week, Dominick Recckio? Was it the University of Missouri, feeling those students, feeling their power? DOMINICKRECCKIO: Yeah, the University of Missouri students certainly empowered and inspired the students at Ithaca College. It showed that this is an issue where we have students all across the nation that stand by us. JUAN GONZ? What has been the attitude of administrators historically to racial issues there? PEYISOYINKA- AIREWELE: Thank you, Juan. I think the crisis we have at Ithaca College is certainly a long- standing historical struggle with President Rochon, who faculty, students and staff have found to be unaccountable, unresponsive, and alienated leadership. And so, this has been a long- standing struggle with the administration to create a community that is inclusive, not only of race, but of student voices, faculty input and staff input. And so, we’ve had many incidents over the past few years, since Rochon has been in office, that describe and show eloquently that he has absolutely no regard for the contributions of members of the community. So it is not simply about racism. What we’re seeing here at IC is the crisis of a lack of governance, a lack of leadership and a lack of vision. President Rochon was the first president in IC’s history to create a ban on media freedom. He listed about 8. Student journalists would have no access to deans and administrators without permission from an office that he set up. So this has been a long, drawn- out struggle to re- create the kind of leadership that we need at Ithaca College. AMYGOODMAN: I want to turn to the clip from a panel discussion in October, one of the few incidents that have come under scrutiny. Ithaca College alumna Tatiana Sy said she had a . Christopher Burch, the chief executive of the investment firm Burch Creative Capital, also an alum, then repeatedly called her a . CHRISTOPHERBURCH: Look, we have a girl here who, like, just the word . CHRISTOPHERBURCH: And so, we’re not—we have to understand, actually, that the two people sitting here, maybe myself, are driven, internally driven, by a message which says . I love what the savage here said. BOBKUR: You’re driven and have been driven since college. You’re the savage, and you were driven. J. CHRISTOPHERBURCH: What empathy means is actually caring deeply for other people’s personal pain, and so as this young—as this savage sits here—TATIANA SY: All right, I mean—J. CHRISTOPHERBURCH: It’s a compliment. I’m really complimenting you, because I think she’s an amazing—she’s an amazing young woman. AMYGOODMAN: So, there you have this clip. They’re discussing the Blue Sky—the future of Ithaca College. Professor Peyi Soyinka- Airewele, can you respond? PEYISOYINKA- AIREWELE: You know, I was at that program, Amy, and like many other faculty and students there, we were distressed not only by the way in which Ms. Sy was treated, both during the program and afterwards. The administration refused to speak to her, to apologize. It was quite clear to the faculty and to the entire community that this was another, you know, symbolization of President Rochon’s disregard for minority members of the community. It was as a result of protest and repeated agitation that he finally, grudgingly, would call Ms. Sy, days after the incident, days after faculty had written a letter of protest. Many of us spoke to him privately. And I think it was in tune with his method of imagining diversity as a way of pandering to a very corporatist sense of the institution, where minority members are brought in as a way of enhancing the competitiveness and the need for, you know, big donors and students who are the majority population. So, in some ways, I think this distressing incident and the reaction of the administration really represented what we’ve been living with for many years at Ithaca College. JUAN GONZ. These different groups involved groups like the African Students Association; PODER, the Latino/ Latina association; ALS; CSA. And so, as they had fought over the past few years to get the administration to respond to their needs, they gradually began to form a united, more united, voice. And I think what you’re seeing here is a very representative body. The students are in POC at IC, are trying to create for us a model of what, you know, a representative campus body of students would look like. And what they’ve done is not only to come together as students of color, but they have hundreds of students who have joined them as white allies and are embraced and welcomed in this growing body that is talking about shared governance, is talking about social justice, is talking about a society that could well represent the beloved community of which Martin Luther King Jr. And so, I feel that they have created for us a kind of access, pushed faculty to look back at the grievances that they’ve had over time, and to begin to create a new network that I think could well speak to the future of Ithaca College as, you know, one of the new models for an invigorated civil society. And so that’s why we’re really excited about what the students are doing at the moment. AMYGOODMAN: Professor, you mentioned POC IC, the People of Color at Ithaca College. I want to turn to a clip from the interview Ithaca College President Tom Rochon had on Thursday with staff from the student- run newspaper, The Ithacan. He was asked why his removal as president is being suggested as a significant step to addressing issues on campus. TOMROCHON: I don’t know the answer to that question and wish I understood it better. I do want to say, I just couldn’t disagree more with that part of the analysis. Our culture is composed of every interaction among students, staff, faculty that happens—millions of interactions that happen every single day, and the assumptions and the biases that underlie those interactions. One person does not change that. Now, leadership has responsibilities, and leadership has ultimate accountability. But it would change so little, in my view, to change who is the president without changing anything else. Far more powerful to change a lot of other things, which is why my sole focus right now is: What can we do to take advantage of this moment and make a real difference for the campus? AMYGOODMAN: That’s Ithaca College President Tom Rochon. Dominick Recckio, you’re the president of the Ithaca College Student Body. As one president to another, what would you say to the president right now? And is your movement around racial insensitivity, racism on campus merging with this other mass protest across the country, that we reported on in headlines, around student debt and other financial issues? DOMINICKRECCKIO: So, for the most part, our movement has stayed out of student debt, so I can’t specifically speak on that. But what I would tell the president is that he has shown myself, other student government leaders over the years, other students and faculty members, a complete disregard and a complete misunderstanding or complete dis- understanding of what happens on campus each and every day. So he cites those every interaction starting to build our culture. Most of the culture that’s been created at Ithaca College is a culture of fear, and it’s a culture of fear because of what he’s done. It’s a culture of fear because he has corporatized our Board of Trustees. It’s because he hasn’t listened to student voices.
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