I just finished a draft of the following essay, entitled Operation Get Fired: A Chronicle of the Academic Repression of Radical Environmentalist and Animal Rights Advocate-Scholars, that explores how the US academy is currently involved in making things difficult for scholars with radical interests in contemporary ecopolitics. As it has to do with the thematics of my blog and is connected to Freire's work, I would like to offer it here in advance of publication. Below is the intro and a link to the full piece as .pdf.