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New Video Highlights Free Speech Troubles at Southwestern College

Black and white images of FIRE clients under the words "STAND UP FOR FREE SPEECH"

A short new video from San Diego-area artist Katherine Sweetman offers a nice snapshot of the free speech troubles that have plagued Southwestern College for the last two months, attracting widespread media attention, public outrage, and the intervention of FIRE and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties.

In Sweetman's video, Southwestern College English Professor and faculty union president Phil Lopez — who taught his first class at Southwestern in 1973 — discusses the October 22 rally that ultimately led to his unjustified suspension, along with three other faculty members:

WATCH VIDEO: Trouble at Southwestern College | Professor Phil Lopez of Southwestern College in Chula Vista tells his side of the bizarre story in which he was suspended from teaching his classes. Lopez was one of the four teachers suspended by the school's administration after a student rally protesting the DEEP class cuts.

The video is also online at the blog Save our Southwestern College. Torch readers should visit our case page for more coverage of Southwestern College's disregard for faculty rights as well as its awful "free speech patio."

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