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York University in Toronto, Canada is threatening disciplinary action against Sociology Professor J. Paul Grayson for refusing to accommodate sexual discrimination by one of his students on religious grounds.
Tell York University that as a publicly funded, secular university, it is expected to preserve women’s and men’s equality, including in the face of religious beliefs.
Sign the petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/318/205/582/gender-discrimination-should-never-be-condoned-on-campus/
Lighter news !
Alabama’s Constitution: ’Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race."
The struggle against apartheid in South Africa was perhaps the greatest transnational social movement of the post-World War II era. Figures like Nelson Mandela are rightly associated with this history, but the Left is less often remembered. The book and forthcoming documentary London Recruits offers a corrective to this. Both serve as a reminder of the tremendous importance of leftists in the global struggle against apartheid.
Separate but equal. And where have we heard that nonsense before?
To segregate or not to segregate based gender, race, creed, colour, sexual orientation, or whatever discriminatory category you choose to pick is not, however, a complex issue. Apparently this is quite a difficult concept for Universities UK, who have magically transported themselves back to mentality of lawmakers in the US South in the 1870s.
I ask the leaders of Universities UK, what kind of message does this send? Universities should be the place where ideas are discussed, equality is striven for, openness and debate are applauded, exemplifying the epitome of a free society.
The document provides a clear rationale for what could lead back to a new era of segregation in universities that was long thought overcome. For Universities UK, the privilege to impose highly controversial religious practices on students trumps considerations of gender equality and the basic freedom of people to sit wherever they choose, and with whom: “Concerns to accommodate the wishes or beliefs of those opposed to segregation should not result in a religious group being prevented from having a debate in accordance with its belief system.†The guidelines of Universities UK are a shocking display of what happens when religious privilege is allowed to trump other considerations of equality and basic human rights.
No gender apartheid in universities: The international solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws protest against sex segregation in universities.
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