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List of Undersigned Professors for Open Letter to BoG (Part Four)

Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins, Faculty of Environmental Studies Nalini Persram, Department of Social Science

Randolph Peters, Department of Music

Kelly Pike, School of Human Resource Management

Dennis Pilon, Department of Politics

Sergei Plekhanov, Department of Politics

Justin Podur, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Brayton Polka, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Humanities

Ann Porter, Department of Politics

Anna Pratt, Department of Social Science

Valerie Preston, Department of Geography

Norene Pupo, Department of Sociology

Audrey Pyee, Department of History, Glendon College

Roberto Quinlan, Department of Biology

Indhu Rajagopal, Department of Social Science

Dennis Raphael, School of Health Policy and Management

Art Redding, English

Markus Reisenleitner, Department of Humanities

Geoffrey Reaume, Critical Disabilty Studies

Marie Rickard, Department of Cinema and Media Arts

André Robert, Department of Geography

Joanna Robinson, Department of Sociology, Glendon

Nick Rogers, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus

Ray Rogers, Faculty of Enviromental Studies

Wade Rowland, Department of Communications

Don Rubin, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Dept of Theatre

L. Anders Sandberg, Faculty of Environmental Science

Cate Sandilands, Environmental Studies

John. S. Saul, Professor Emeritus, Social Science and Politics

Rachel Schlesinger, Senior Scholar, Dept. of Social Science

Ellen G. Schraa, School of Health Policy & Management

Dayna Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School

Jamie Scott, Department of Humanities

Shirin Shahrokni, Department of Sociology, Glendon

Theresa Shanahan, Faculty of Education

Victor Shea, Department of Humanities

Joel Shore, Department of Biology

Nicola Short, Department of Politics

John Simoulidis, Department of Social Science

Brian Singer, Sociology, Glendon

David Skinner, Communication Studies

Lisa Sloniowski, York University Libraries

Bruce Smardon, Department of Political Science

Brenda Spotton Visano, Department of Economics, School of Public Policy and Administration

Glenn Stalker, Department of Sociology

Jennifer Stephen, Department of History

Penny Stewart, Department of Sociology

Karen Swift, Social Work, Professor Emerita David Szablowski, Department of Social Science Laura Taylor, Faculty of Environmental Studies Patrick Taylor, Department of Humanities Thomas Teo, Department of Psychology

Mark Thomas, Department of Sociology

Ozgun Topak, Department of Social Science

Robert Tordoff, Associate Professor, Humanities.

Temenuga Trifonova, Associate Professor, Dept of Cinema and Media Arts Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Faculty of Education

Eric Tucker, Osgoode Law School

Steven Tufts, Department of Geography

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Dorin Uritescu, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, French Studies, Glendon Karen Valihora, Department of English

Peter Vandergeest, Department of Geography

Gail Vanstone Department of Humanities

Livy Visano, Professor, Department of Equity Studies

Usha Viswanathan, Glendon

Colleen Wagner, Department of Cinema & Media Arts

Philip Walsh, Department of Sociology

Richard Weisman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Science

Fredric Weizmann, Senior Scholar, Department of Psychology

Richard Wellen, Social Science

Kimberley White, Department of Social Science

Walter Whiteley, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

David L. Wiesenthal, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Psychology

Daphne Winland, Anthropology

Ted Winslow, Department of Social Science

Howard Wiseman, Department of Cinema and Media Arts

Lesley Wood, Department of Sociology

Patricia Wood, Department of Geography

Jenny Wüstenberg, Department of Politics

Douglas Young, Department of Social Science

Lélia Young, Department of French Studies

Anna Zalik, Faculty of Environmental Studies

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Vote NO in the Forced Ratification Vote

Voting for all CUPE 3903 members begins today (Friday, April 6th) at 9:00am! Please make sure to cast your vote.

How Do I Cast My Vote? The vote will be online, and will take place between Friday April 6 at 9 am and Monday April 9 at 10 am.

1.To vote online, go to www.olrb-crto.isivote.com and follow the instructions. 2. To vote by telephone, call the toll free voting phone number: English 1-888-359-2308, French 1-888-359-2309 and follow the instructions. You will need a PIN to cast your vote.

https://3903.cupe.ca/#summary

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"In light of the reports that the Reclaimers were removed from the 9th floor, we would like to direct your attention to this letter the CCLA sent to York. Quashing dissent is an attack on the civil liberties of these students."

https://ccla.org/ccla-follows-yorku-strike/

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We will be holding a picket line on Monday July 2. Please note that there is no obligation for members to participate in strike duties on Monday, which is a holiday. However, for those who want or need a shift in order to fulfill their picketing hours, there will be a single shift at Main Gate from 10 am to 2 pm.

If you are on the 8th Line and have questions about strike duties over the holiday, please contact your picket captain.

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Picket Shift Information

Picket shifts will run on Monday as usual. On Tuesday and Wednesday, there will be a single picket shift from 10 am to 2 pm at Queen’s Park for our Days of Action. However, there will be a single shift at Northwest Gate from 10 am to 2 pm on both days for those who cannot go to Queen’s Park.

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Anti-Racism Meeting Today at 3:00pm

For details on the location, please refer to the Strike Newsletter.

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Unit 1 and Unit 3 Remain on Strike

While Unit 2 has ratified their Memorandum of Settlement, Unit 1 and Unit 3 remain on strike. The Bargaining Team will be visiting the picket lines and Headquarters this week in order to debrief and discuss next steps. Thursday’s General Membership Meeting will also be an opportunity to discuss strategy and next steps for Unit 1 and Unit 3.

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Letter from Canadian Civil Liberties Association to Lucy Fromowitz,

Vice Provost at York University (30 May, 2018)

Dear Ms. Fromowitz,

On March 28, 2018 CCLA’s Executive Director, Michael Bryant, spoke to, and then received a letter from, York University President Rhonda Lenton. In that letter, she stated that York takes the protection of civil liberties seriously.

I am writing to ask you to confirm that commitment remains true today.

In your letter of April 26, 2018 directed at students conducting a peaceful sit-in of York's Senate Chamber, you state that while York values freedom of expression, “freedom to express divergent opinions does not extend to compromising and disruptive activities.” While free expression is at the heart of the right to dissent, protest is about more than free speech or being heard. It is about attempting to effect change.

York U students have shown remarkable dedication to their cause throughout the many weeks of this strike. Doubtless their sit-in is inconvenient for the University, but respectfully, disruptions to the social order are in fact regularly part of the legitimate intent of an act of protest. The peaceful occupation of this symbolic place on campus is an act of dissent that should be an activity not just protected as a core value of Canadian society, but also protected under section 2 of your Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, which explicitly states that nothing in the Code “is intended as a method or excuse to suppress peaceful protest, civil debate or other lawful conduct so long as student responsibilities as outlined in section 4 are being upheld.” The qualifying clause at the end of that provision should be considered in relation to a university’s role in society as a place to encourage debate, political and social engagement, and in the context of the high duty of care necessary to ensure that a public institution’s policies are not constructed or construed in such a way as to actively deter, prevent, or obstruct acts of protest.

This brings us to your letter of May 25th. We hope that you will reconsider the use of a policy instrument to impose sanctions on a group of young people who are exercising their right to protest, and who so clearly epitomize the commitment to social justice and critical thinking that it is York’s stated mission to inculcate in its student body. We would be happy to discuss this further with you, should you wish to do so.

Sincerely,

Brenda McPhail

Director, Privacy, Technology & Surveillance

Canadian Civil Liberties Association

bmcphail@ccla.org/ 416-646-1406

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3903 members are not the only ones affected by the financial precarity of the strike. Please feel free to donate pet food at Strike HQ to support the pets that support our strikers! Thank you to all who have or will support this good cause.