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<DIV>----- Original Message -----
<DIV>From: "Robert T. O'Brien" <<A
href="mailto:robrien@temple.edu">robrien@temple.edu</A>></DIV>
<DIV>To: "Urbananth-l" <<A
href="mailto:urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu">urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu</A>></DIV>
<DIV>Cc: <<A
href="mailto:H-MEDANTHRO@H-NET.MSU.EDU">H-MEDANTHRO@H-NET.MSU.EDU</A>></DIV>
<DIV>Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:58 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Mailing List</DIV>
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<DIV>APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING<BR>(Can you believe I wrote that with a
straight face...)<BR><BR>Several people have already written back saying they
would <BR>like to coordinate activities with other groups. Accordingly, <BR>we
are starting a mailing list to coordinate all the various <BR>activities being
planned. <BR><BR>To join the list, send an e-mail message to <BR><<A
href="mailto:aaaunite-subscribe@yahoogroups.com">aaaunite-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</A>>.
You will receive a <BR>confirmation message. Just reply to this message and your
<BR>subscription will be complete.<BR><BR>Kerim Friedman and Rob O'Brien, on
behalf of the AAAUnite Ad <BR>Hoc Committee <<A
href="http://aaaunite.blogspot.com/">http://aaaunite.blogspot.com/</A>><BR> ********************************************
<BR>Robert T. O'Brien <BR>Ph.D. Candidate<BR>Department of Anthropology
<BR>Temple University <BR><A
href="mailto:robrien@temple.edu">robrien@temple.edu</A> <BR>215-803-5181
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<DIV>----- Original Message -----
<DIV>From: "Laura Miller" <<A
href="mailto:lmille2@wpo.it.luc.edu">lmille2@wpo.it.luc.edu</A>></DIV>
<DIV>Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:42 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]petition to boycott</DIV>
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<DIV>Please send your request for signatures to this listserve:<BR><A
href="mailto:EASIANTH@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU">EASIANTH@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV>[Editor's note: Laura is referring to the petition to boycott the
meetings:<BR><A
href="http://www.petitiononline.com/2004AAA/petition.html">http://www.petitiononline.com/2004AAA/petition.html</A>]</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=Idasusser@aol.com href="mailto:Idasusser@aol.com">Idasusser@aol.com</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
href="mailto:urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu">urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu</A> ; <A
title=JusticeActionNetwork@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:JusticeActionNetwork@yahoogroups.com">JusticeActionNetwork@yahoogroups.com</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 25, 2004 12:07 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> AES conference statement</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>Statement of the Board of the American Ethnological Society on the
<BR>Lockout of Local 2 UNITE/HERE at the San Francisco Hilton and the
<BR>Decision of the AAA Executive Board to Relocate the 2004 Annual
Meeting<BR><BR>October 24, 2004<BR><BR>The Board of the American
Ethnological Society has unanimously agreed <BR>that we will not participate in
a conference that crosses picket lines. <BR>We believe that expressing our
solidarity with the locked-out members <BR>of Local 2 in San Francisco will have
broad national implications, and <BR>will contribute to the struggle for the
welfare of working people.<BR><BR>We appreciate that the AAA Executive Board has
acted under <BR>extraordinary pressure as it has attempted to respond to a
rapidly <BR>changing situation, that the membership of the Association is
divided <BR>over many issues that have emerged very rapidly in the past week,
and <BR>that every option available to the Association entails serious costs
<BR>and risks both for the Association as a whole and for many members as
<BR>individuals. We hope to be able to assist in efforts to reduce or
<BR>eliminate the costs of these changes to our student, unemployed, and
<BR>underemployed members.<BR><BR>Collectively, as a board, we have significant
reservations about the <BR>Executive Board's decision to move the 2004 meeting
to a non-union <BR>Hilton property in Atlanta, and we will be issuing a formal
response to <BR>this decision in the near future. Individually, many of us have
already <BR>decided we will not attend the meeting rescheduled and relocated at
the <BR>Atlanta Hilton. However, even as we will be working to formulate an
<BR>official position on what to do with the AES-sponsored sessions
<BR>scheduled for the meeting, we believe it has become a matter of urgent
<BR>importance that fair labor practice must now become a priority
<BR>consideration for the planning of all future Association and section
<BR>meetings. We hold ourselves and the Association accountable for having
<BR>neglected this issue in the past.<BR> <BR>We urge our
colleagues to join us in an effort to ensure that the <BR>discipline of
anthropology practices the same ethical standards in its <BR>professional
culture as it demands of each of its members in their <BR>individual scholarly
work.<BR><BR>For ongoing information on the union demands and negotiations,
updates <BR>to the AES Board's position, news from other sections, and to join
an <BR>interactive discussion open to all members of the AAA, please visit the
<BR>AES website at http://www.AESonline.org.<BR><BR>Matti Bunzl<BR>Virginia
Dominguez<BR>Aaron Fox<BR>Kenneth George<BR>Hugh Gusterson<BR>Ralph
Litzinger<BR>Catherine Lutz<BR>Ida Susser<BR>Mayfair Yang<BR><BR><BR></DIV>
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