The Orange County District Attorney has brought misdemeanor conspiracy charges against eleven of the Irvine Students who protested the speech of Michael Oren last spring. Campus officials already imposed penalties on students and suspended the Muslim Students Association for a year. The Orange County District Attorney is seeking to impose legal penalties on top of university penalties and has indicated that he has filed the charges because the students of an “organized attempt to squelch the speaker."
Further information on the actual charges can be found here.
Information on some responses can be found here.
There are two petitions being circulated against the effort to criminalize the student's actions. If you are a member of the UCIrvine community you can find one here. If you are outside the UCIrvine Community you can find one here.
These petitions were drawn up before the actual charges but you can still sign them.
Update: 100 UCI Professors Have Signed a Petition and Issued A Statement Calling for the District Attorney to Drop the Charges. You can read it HERE.
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5 hours ago
3 comments:
The "Irvine 11" includes 3 UCR students, who have been included in the charges.
Anonymous 4:07:
You are entirely correct about that. I was thinking that the phrase had more to do with where the action took place. But it is an important point for people to remember.
did the Irvine DA also pursue charges against those other audience members who made threats against other audience members in this video?:
http://www.youtube.com/user/StandWithTheEleven#p/u/4/1OqtSYx4CZ0
if he didn't, why not, what is the reasoning?
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