by John Peter Daly

For several weeks last summer, students, professors, and staff at Warren County Community College, where I was teaching as an adjunct, participated in “Freedom Week” activities. The main event was to be a pro-war rally. Imagine walking into the lobby at work and coming face-to-face with the glorification of the genocidal assault on the Iraqi people. The campus was plastered with posters of Ronald Reagan and Oliver North. Maps of Iraq–seen through the barrel of a gun–blanketed walls and bulletin boards. I felt compelled to speak out against the group organizing “Freedom Week.”

I sent an email from my personal email account to the personal email account of one of the event organizers—in response to an unsolicited invitation to a pro-war event. I didn’t know that the email was from a WCCC student, nor had I ever met this student. My email was turned over to the college administration. At the same time that the administration was asking me not to have further contact with the pro-war group, I believe they were encouraging group members to campaign to have me fired.

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