00:00Because if the Trump administration can break the country's wealthiest, most powerful university,
00:05they will not stop until every school in the United States is brought under their control.
00:23You've heard that the stakes for Harvard couldn't be higher, right?
00:27Field-defining research trapped in limbo.
00:29Life-saving clinical trials terminated.
00:32Hundreds of staff losing their jobs.
00:35Tenure-track professors receiving layoff notices.
00:38And make no mistake, these attacks are blatantly unconstitutional.
00:42The government wants to tell professors what we can and cannot teach.
00:48The government wants to tell professors who we can and cannot teach.
00:54The government wants to tell students what they can and cannot learn.
00:58What questions they can and cannot ask.
01:01Who they can and cannot aspire to be.
01:05As Harvard faculty, it is our moral and pedagogical duty to our students and to our fields of scholarly expertise
01:15to refuse this blatantly unlawful thought policing.
01:19Clearly, the government has now taken a position that is completely contrary to what it has taken throughout this process.
01:25Clearly, the government has now taken a position that is completely contrary to what it has taken throughout this process.
01:35And their position is this, which is that they can cancel any contract, any funding that they want to, based on changing agency priorities, without regard for the Constitution or for any of the procedures under federal statutes.
01:52And so they're basically now, while they started this process by saying that they cared about anti-Semitism and wanted to address that under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act,
02:12they are now saying that this is not about Title VI, that it is, in fact, just a change in agency priorities and we've never seen anything like this in the history of Title VI and federal civil rights enforcement of this kind of termination of federal funding without going through any of the kind of process that one would go through.
02:30Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
Comentarios