ON VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY

WHEREAS, as teachers and trade unionists, AFT members should be staunch defenders of academic freedom and intellectual freedom and dissent in this country and throughout the world; and

WHEREAS, Vladimir Bukovsky, a Russian citizen, has been imprisoned most of his adult life for protesting the repression of intellectuals; and

WHEREAS, Bukovsky is presently in Vladimir prison, seriously ill, serving a sentence for publicizing the psychiatric abuses in Soviet mental institutions; and

WHEREAS, Amnesty International has initiated an international campaign to gain Bukovsky's release:

RESOLVED, that the AFT issue a statement in support of Bukovsky's immediate release.