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“WHO’S BEHIND ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE MICHIGAN PROFESSORS?” « Fred Klonsky's blog

“WHO’S BEHIND ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE MICHIGAN PROFESSORS?” « Fred Klonsky's blog

“WHO’S BEHIND ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE MICHIGAN PROFESSORS?”

From Jim Hightower on Facebook:

Suddenly – from out of the blue – three professors at three different Michigan universities simultaneously received identical freedom-of-information demands for any and all of their emails that used certain words. The three are professors of labor studies, and the words in question were: “Scott Walker,” the union-busting governor of Wisconsin; “Madison,” the capitol city at the center of mass protests against Walker’s assault on worker rights; and “Rachel Maddow,” the TV talk