Dear LAI Members and Supporters,
2019 was our most active and productive year. Our activities in 2019 and our plans for 2020 are covered in detail in the report, available here on the web and here in PDF format. While I have been closely involved in all of the Institute’s official activities, I want to provide this personal update to help readers make better sense of last year’s report and understand how we are scaling-up in the New Year.
From 2012-19, I worked as a sessional instructor and limited term lecturer at Simon Fraser University. But, unfortunately, in 2017, changes at the administrative level resulted in a concerted and escalating campaign of workplace harassment and other illicit efforts to force me out of my place of work. Because this campaign was directed, in part, from the highest administrative level of the university, it has been impossible for my union to reach a settlement with the administration and we are now proceeding to the Labour Relations Board.
In practical terms, this has meant that my intention to retire from teaching and work full-time as a writer, organizer and broadcaster for the Institute has been made real much sooner than anticipated. While recovering from the psychologically brutalization suffered at work, I have decided to make the best of this, moving full-time to Prince George, setting aside a minimum number of hours per week to develop ideas and write on stuartparker.ca and taking over hosting of a community radio public affairs show on Prince George community radio CFIS 93.1 In addition to hosting, I volunteer for the station, doing producer and technician work. My partner and I have decided to rent a storefront office which will function as a painting studio, art gallery and headquarters for Los Altos.
To support these activities, I have set up a Patreon page and have a number of monthly contributors who provide stable funding to cover a small portion of my expenses as a de facto full-time employee of the Institute.
These efforts have already yielded important new resources for the Institute.
First, the corpus of theory and other writing I have been generating since 2012 has taken on a new comprehensiveness and coherence. It has also been integrated meaningfully into the corpus we use for our reading groups and will now comprise a portion of the readers we produce going forward, readers that this new time has afforded me a chance to assemble more quickly and comprehensively.
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Second, my work in community radio has provided me the skills and resources necessary to launch Los Altos Radio in the spring and the contacts necessary to have it broadcast on one of Prince George’s two community radio stations.
Third, we have gained not just an office but a new cadre in a new community. I am excited to have a reading group that includes so many industrial workers, artists and other groups un- or under-represented in our Vancouver and Surrey groups.
But in May, my EI runs out and I would very much like to continue doing this work. So, I am asking for your support in that endeavour. Either by donating via Los Altos’ web site or joining my Patreon page (which also goes straight to LAI’s bank account), I am asking for your support in allowing me to continue producing LAI programming, writing and broadcasting full-time. This is a very important time for our province and for our planet. With your help, I can continue my full-time efforts to work as an educator, writer, theorist and broadcaster outside the academy and able, consequently, to pursue important not just full-time but also without fear of reprisals in the workplace.
Regardless of how this effort goes, I appreciate the support I have received and will continue working with my team to build Los Altos as a place where people from all walks of life can think through big ideas rigorously and courageously together.
In solidarity,
Stuart Parker
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