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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear colleagues,</span><br>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="gmail-gmaildefault" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">As some of you might know, the Urban Studies unit at the University of Basel has been under intense media scrutiny and institutional
investigation for the past months. </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Please consider </span><span class="gmail-gmaildefault"><a href="https://forms.gle/JyeHFxfaKmfQEr5r9" originalsrc="https://forms.gle/JyeHFxfaKmfQEr5r9" shash="ODYz+lKgkBSeKLBQhut/Tp2D4RjAbdC+f8hVKsneWecrORA9IOGy1Kj3QzLHhWUs9+MacvPI6/qfB31gwVeu+QJKQivzB2zfFW18QxlZkEcTjy0AdU92y0kNPotGa1IuE5IFdntGMkqv+2KWHjhw4quijbwcYOasKSVHKiAHjlM=" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> this
open letter that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(32,33,36);background:white">non-professorial teaching staff members at the University of Basel and a group of PhD students of Urban Studies</span><span lang="EN-US"> have written. The letter has been
written in the spirit of providing a fact-based articulation of their experience regarding the media campaign against this unit over the past four months and out of concern for the state of academic freedom at the University of Basel and beyond.<span></span></span></span></div>
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Your signatures are very wellcome, as well as your sharing the <span class="gmail-gmaildefault">letter</span> with other people who would like to express their solidarity with us and concern for the protection of academic freedom. <span class="gmail-gmaildefault">Due
to our experience with the tactics of Swiss media, we would be grateful if you could not share it via social media channels, please. </span><br>
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</span>Best regards,<span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Claske Dijkema, on behalf of colleagues in Urban Studies at the University of Basel<span></span></span></div>
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