This is unacceptable as the groups and people involved have shown sympathy or have been associated with violent groups.
Biju Mathew, the speaker whose event was cancelled, once had a link to the Unabomber's Manifesto.
He is a founder of a group called Forum of Inquilabi Leftists (Inquilabi means violent Revolutionary) on which a call for violence against USA by a terrorist group was posted.
The message was originally sent out by Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). This group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the US Department of State.
The Department of State has designated the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" organization under the "Terrorist Exclusion List" of the Immigration and Nationality Act and under Executive Order 13224.
Excerpt from the message posted on FOIL's mailing list:
It is well known that no movement or revolution in the world, be it national liberation movement or new democratic revolution, cannot succeed without confrontation with the U.S. imperialism, the most despicable enemy of world people.The organization that was supposed to host the event, Friends of South Asia, in its cancellation notice says:
With their support, we assure you that Biju Mathew WILL speak at Stanford and FOSA WILL address problems of working classes, sectarian politics and US imperialism.
Obviously, whoever decided to pull down the article from the archives is undermining American values.
Any chance freepers can do something about it?
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Ahhh.
Nothin' like a little Cal at Stanford.
You will want to read this, it goes in all directions and none of them are good.