[URBANTH-L]
New Listserv to Coordinate Sections, AES Statement, Regarding Petition
Angela Jancius
acjancius at ysu.edu
Mon Oct 25 01:21:05 EDT 2004
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert T. O'Brien" <robrien at temple.edu>
To: "Urbananth-l" <urbanth-l at lists.ysu.edu>
Cc: <H-MEDANTHRO at H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:58 PM
Subject: Mailing List
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
(Can you believe I wrote that with a straight face...)
Several people have already written back saying they would
like to coordinate activities with other groups. Accordingly,
we are starting a mailing list to coordinate all the various
activities being planned.
To join the list, send an e-mail message to
<aaaunite-subscribe at yahoogroups.com>. You will receive a
confirmation message. Just reply to this message and your
subscription will be complete.
Kerim Friedman and Rob O'Brien, on behalf of the AAAUnite Ad
Hoc Committee <http://aaaunite.blogspot.com/>
********************************************
Robert T. O'Brien
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
robrien at temple.edu
215-803-5181
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Miller" <lmille2 at wpo.it.luc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]petition to boycott
Please send your request for signatures to this listserve:
EASIANTH at LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
[Editor's note: Laura is referring to the petition to boycott the meetings:
http://www.petitiononline.com/2004AAA/petition.html]
----- Original Message -----
From: Idasusser at aol.com
To: urbanth-l at lists.ysu.edu ; JusticeActionNetwork at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:07 AM
Subject: AES conference statement
Statement of the Board of the American Ethnological Society on the
Lockout of Local 2 UNITE/HERE at the San Francisco Hilton and the
Decision of the AAA Executive Board to Relocate the 2004 Annual Meeting
October 24, 2004
The Board of the American Ethnological Society has unanimously agreed
that we will not participate in a conference that crosses picket lines.
We believe that expressing our solidarity with the locked-out members
of Local 2 in San Francisco will have broad national implications, and
will contribute to the struggle for the welfare of working people.
We appreciate that the AAA Executive Board has acted under
extraordinary pressure as it has attempted to respond to a rapidly
changing situation, that the membership of the Association is divided
over many issues that have emerged very rapidly in the past week, and
that every option available to the Association entails serious costs
and risks both for the Association as a whole and for many members as
individuals. We hope to be able to assist in efforts to reduce or
eliminate the costs of these changes to our student, unemployed, and
underemployed members.
Collectively, as a board, we have significant reservations about the
Executive Board's decision to move the 2004 meeting to a non-union
Hilton property in Atlanta, and we will be issuing a formal response to
this decision in the near future. Individually, many of us have already
decided we will not attend the meeting rescheduled and relocated at the
Atlanta Hilton. However, even as we will be working to formulate an
official position on what to do with the AES-sponsored sessions
scheduled for the meeting, we believe it has become a matter of urgent
importance that fair labor practice must now become a priority
consideration for the planning of all future Association and section
meetings. We hold ourselves and the Association accountable for having
neglected this issue in the past.
We urge our colleagues to join us in an effort to ensure that the
discipline of anthropology practices the same ethical standards in its
professional culture as it demands of each of its members in their
individual scholarly work.
For ongoing information on the union demands and negotiations, updates
to the AES Board's position, news from other sections, and to join an
interactive discussion open to all members of the AAA, please visit the
AES website at http://www.AESonline.org.
Matti Bunzl
Virginia Dominguez
Aaron Fox
Kenneth George
Hugh Gusterson
Ralph Litzinger
Catherine Lutz
Ida Susser
Mayfair Yang
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