The Committee for Academic Justice - NEIU FreeSpeech-UnderFire@gmail.com WZRD/Chicago
In 2007, Loretta Capeheart, a professor of Justice Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, was denied elected appointment to the position of Chair of her department. It became clear that the NEIU administration had targeted Capeheart for her outspokenness for workers' rights, against the Iraq war, and for increased representation of minority scholars at NEIU. Capeheart sued NEIU for violating her constitutional right to free speech but her case was dismissed in US District Court last fall. The judges' overly expansive and poorly conceived decision was based on Garcetti v. Ceballos. But that decision was overturned on April 14 by the 4th Circuit court in the case of North Carolina professor Mike Adams. Capeheart's case is at the center of a nationwide attack on free speech and independent thought organized by right wing pundits like David Horowitz and Glen Beck.The featured speakers add their experiences in the fight to retain their right to speak their mind and to speak truth to power. The recent victory indicates that now is the time to build the fight to defend all academics facing legal repression and FBI harassment.
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