FC: UCLA bans staff from forwarding "patriotic" email messages

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Previous Politech message:

"UCLAer suspended for writing email criticizing Israel"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02627.html

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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:42:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Tsang <dtsang () lib uci edu>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: [Subv] UCLA pay-docking story update (fwd)

Feel free to circ...

Our October 5 show on Jonnie Hargis, the library assistant (not librarian)
at UCLA whose pay was docked for a week after he responded to a mass
e-mail with one defending Palestinians, has led to follow-up stories by
media outlets nationwide that contacted Subversity.  Many had seen our
press release on the Technology and Politics list by Declan McCullough.
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02627.html.  In addition, the Daily
Californian today ran a story on the case.

Our Oct 5 interview on Subversity with Hargis is now archived on the
Subversity RealAudio archive page:

http://falco.kuci.uci.edu/~dtsang/subversity/realaudio.htm
Click on Latest Archived Show.

Here is the UCLA Library policy that was sent to Hargis the same day he
was suspended, September 14.  It's cited in some of the articles.  UCLA
released a copy to AP.

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To:     Unit Plus (for staff distribution)


Please remind your staff that sending unsolicited emails containing
political, religious, or even patriotic messages to groups such as
units, departments, or other library lists is an unacceptable use of
library email.   This is true for messages which are original,
forwarded, and responses to other messages.

Recipients of these unsolicited email messages may have very different
views and should not be subjected to what they may interpret as
electronic harrassment by other library staff members.  While this is
particularly important now during this national crisis, it is a general
policy.


Alison Bunting
Janice Koyama
Terry Ryan
Rita Scherrei
Jan Wildman

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The follow-up coverage:

1. Daily Californian (UC Berkeley):

http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=6643
UCLA Librarian Appeals Suspension For Mass E-mail
Letter Sent to Co-Workers Criticized U.S. Foreign Policy

Discuss this article in the Daily Cal  forums.

By SARAH MOURRA
Daily Cal Staff Writer
Monday, October 15, 2001

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2. AP story:

http://www8.cnn.com/2001/US/10/13/rec.attacks.academic.ap/index.html
College staff find chilling free speech climate
October 13, 2001 Posted: 3:42 PM EDT (1942 GMT)

...

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3. Democracy Now in Exile! October 11, 2001 show
http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/exile.html

http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/exile/dn20011011.ra&start="43:56.2";
UNIVERSITY WORKERS WALK OUT ON PATRIOTISM AS THE US WAGES WAR
Guests:

    * Jonnie Hargis, suspended for a week without pay from his position as
research librarian at UCLA.
    * Liza Go, union representative at the Coalition Of Union Employees.


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dan
Daniel C. Tsang
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