This video (below) is a very important statement (13/01/22) about what we are witnessing in countries throughout the world at this moment. I have experienced some of these things first hand.
Extreme censorship and coercive forced vaccination via excluding people from space(s), including travel, health social and work is creeping all too easily into our social/communal fabric.
Technocratic tyranny is dominant and it is important to speak out and not to pretend this is not happening.
I will not remain silent.
As, in my original post I want to state that I am an advocate of pro-choice when it comes to medical procedures and the bodily autonomy of the individual.
I am absolutely amazed by what I am (not)seeing on academic forums, at a time when this is an important threat to democracy worldwide.
Dance and theatre appear to be content to carry on engaging with anything but this ‘hot’ topic.
Is it fear? Or the coercive framework(s) of the modern campus, where political voices must align with the dominant administrative one that renders academics and practitioners mute?
Dance/Theatre academics are often keen to talk about acknowledging and respecting the rights of the First Nation people(s) whose lands they sit upon, yet the majority remain silent as the First Nation people of Australia are interned and coercively force vaccinated.
Canadians are not allowed to travel on trains and planes unless vaccinated and France is aiming to introduce the same discriminatory measures. Is this not worthy of discussion? Are academics not at all concerned? I have a friend in the Human Rights Departments at a top UK university and they are scared to even mention the topic at their institution for fear of shaming and marginalisation: in fact they dare not mention their own ‘unvaccinated status’.
Last September I was shamed and aggressively bullied on the SCUDD forum for suggesting that these draconian and worrying measures were creeping in. I was called ‘anti-vaxx’ for merely raising the matter: a term that was orchestrated by the TNI (Trusted News Initiative) to denigrate and silence anyone who questions governmental, pharmaceutical and tech narratives surrounding COVID 19.
Do my colleagues read sources such as the official Vaers and Yellow Card Scheme data? If so, do they consider that freedom of choice is vital when catastrophic injury or death is a possibility of a medical procedure?
Are my colleagues aware of the tens of thousands of UK doctors (many more worldwide) who oppose vaccine mandates and question the vaccines efficacy? These are health care professionals who consider mandating medical procedures as a violation of ethics and Human Rights.
https://nhs100k.com
Yet, some UK universities only allow fully vaccinated students to live ‘on campus’ (though the definition of ‘fully’ is in flux’) with no recognition that this is coercive behaviour at an institutional level. Other UK universities offer prize draw entries for ‘fully vaccinated’ students only. Is this ethical behaviour?
I would be interested to see how my colleagues on SCUDD, who denigrated me for my post about Dr Julie Ponesse in September 2022, now engage with, or ignore, this fight for freedom. Do they debate and research or continue to ‘silence’ the discourse?
Will they stand up, step out, speak out and fight for democracy, liberty, freedom of speech and community? Or will they remain silent? Are they forced to remain silent? Is political (non)discourse surrounding COVID a part of creative work in dance and theatre and does it link to pedagogical practices on campus?
Will the link to this post be censored by SCUDD and will they receive calls for my removal and to silence the discourse once again? Will it be called irrelevant to the nature of the list?
CALL OUT: for ongoing research project.
I would like to call for personal statements (anonymous if individuals wish ) regarding this rapidly shifting socio-political-pharmaceutical landscape; your experience of it’s shifting (or not); your experiences of (non)censorship of the discourse on campus; has it affected you freedom of movement(s) as a practitioner/academic? Do you consider your campus, students and colleagues as achieving a ‘back to normal’, as was anticipated? How do you view the coming year and what might evolve with regard to free movement(s)?
Of course, there are many other lenses you can apply to your statement.
Please do not include links to lots of unsubstantiated claims that you feel I may not have already read. I am interested in your experience as a practitioner/pedagog. Thank you.I will be at the the UK manifestation of the World Wide Rally For Freedom and hope to see some of you there.
