FARC-EP back on-line
By Andy McInerney
After hundreds of letters protesting the closing of the
BURN! Collective's web site, the censored pages are back on
line.
The Department of Communications at the University of
California at San Diego--reportedly under pressure from the
university administration--had shut down the site on the
grounds that it hosted the home page of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP).
The decision to shut the site unleashed a torrent of
letters to Communications Department Chair Carol Padden,
protesting her capitulation to right-wing forces opposed to
the FARC-EP's political views. The Colombian insurgency has
won the respect of millions in Colombia and around the world
for its determined fight for a socialist society.
While the Communications Department still has not agreed
to host the site, the burn.ucsd.edu address has been
re-enabled, pointing to a mirror site at tierra.ucsd.edu
maintained by the Groundwork Collective. Web addresses with
the BURN site are automatically routed to the new site.
The FARC-EP's web page is burn.ucsd.edu/~farc-ep.
The BURN! Collective issued a statement on June 16
thanking supporters for writing letters on their behalf. "It
was your solidarity that convinced the university to restore
our hostname," the group wrote.
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