[-empyre-] Fwd: We stand in solidarity with Ricardo Dominguez as we sit outside your interrogation

[micha cardenas]

To SVC Burke and all involved in continuing the investigations against
Ricardo Dominguez and the bang.lab,

As a member of the bang.lab and of the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT),
I want to make clear my solidarity for Ricardo Dominguez and to denounce
your investigations against him.

It is egregious, and probably criminal, that you are seeking criminal
charges against him for the very thing you hired him to do and gave him
tenure for.

It is a violation of academic freedom for you to have supported his virtual
sit-ins against outside actors such as the government of France and then to
react negatively to his virtual sit-in against the UC administration.

As a member of the bang.lab and EDT, I am every bit as guilty as Ricardo
Dominguez is of organizing the virtual sit-in. I am the system
administrator. I copied the files in place. I helped announce the action,
and I, among the thousands of others, joined the action online.

It is clear to me, as it is to our thousands of international supporters,
that this investigation is intended to silence dissent against the
continuing privitization of the university following the neoliberal agenda,
including tuition increases, furloughs, pay cuts and firings.

The fact that you have endless funds to persecute us, and send police after
us, like the 3 police I am looking at right now outside of Grant Kester’s
office this morning, demonstrates perfectly that there is no budget crisis,
only a crisis of priorities.

You cannot stop us. If you succeed in removing Ricardo’s tenure, you can be
assured that virtual sit-ins against your administration will spring up all
over the world. Electronic Civil Disobedience is decentralized at its core.
Penalties against Ricardo will only make the situation worse for you. The
thousands of people who joined the action are each capable of and likely to
start their own virtual sit-in.

Lecturer in Visual Arts and Critical Gender Studies at UCSD,

micha cárdenas


-- 
micha cárdenas / azdel slade

Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Artist/Researcher, UCSD Medical Education
Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net

blog: http://transreal.org
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