Press release: Arrest of Denis Rancourt and Marc Kelly
January 25, 2009
CDE Declares Ottawa Free Speech Movement Open
The Committee for the Defence of Education (CDE) at the University of Ottawa declares that the Ottawa Free Speech Movement was started on Friday January 23 2009 when physics student Marc Kelly and physics professor Denis Rancourt were arrested by Ottawa Police, under instruction from the University, for attempting to present political research in the MacDonald Hall auditorium, as part of the Cinema Politica/Academica open weekly series hosted by professors Rancourt and Claude Lamontagne.
Trespass laws and bogus criminal charges have been used to prevent free speech on North American campuses before and since Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of the 60s and these occurrences have multiplied on Canadian campuses in recent years; and in recent months at the University of Ottawa under the Rock administration.
This, in an Orwellian climate where the Secretary of the University, Nathalie Des Rosiers, who heads the university legal department and who has implemented the oppression, has recently been elected next General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA).
The CDE vows to keep Cinema Politica/Academic open and free from political censorship and police suppression.
Join us this Friday January 30th (MacDonald Hall auditorium 7pm) when Marc Kelly will continue his presentation on campus corruption, accompanied by Denis Rancourt.
Videos of the arrest:
Denis Rancourt: http://www.vimeo.com/2951076
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