Right, Rebecca Kukla. It feels weird to be petitioned to do what we are already doing, and have been working on the last several days.
Amy Ferrer asked Tina Botts (Chair of the Committee on the Status of Blacks in Philosophy) and myself (Chair of the APA Committee on Public Philosophy) to work on a statement the Board could consider at its February meeting. Several members of the committees plus several others (like Ruth) have stepped up to work on it. So it is underway.
On the other hand, we could look at it as general support for the development of the statement, and that's great.
a trick i learned in Amnesty International -- in the old days when we actually used to support prisoners of conscience through letter writing campaigns on a one-to-one basis, or any way adoption group-to-prisoner, which would be a small many-to-one relation, was that getting inundated from various and independent sources with an outcry of concerns, the more heterogeneous the better the outcry, is what gave governments the impetus to do something on behalf of a prisoner of conscience detained without trial or undergoing maltreatment, it would get that person released, because to persist in maintaining the situation of incarceration and abusing the individual dissident was more embarrassing to the government than letting the dissident go free and carry on as he might if undetained.The parallel such as it is, speaks for itself I trust.The more varied petitions and objections raised in a meaningfully articulate way from desks claiming authority and gravitas of any sort at all, the better, be it the NYT, Emory University or the US State Dept or Homeland Security Office, it all rolls into one anyway, so I'm told by students of Gramsci.
"I am George Yancy" -- to rely on a French reference point of last year or so.Although I'm not.
But we are.
Helen
From: Rebecca Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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If the APA is already taking action, then should we still sign the petition? Doing so seems pragmatically odd. I want to be maximally supportive and helpful here, but not do pointless things.
So very sorry this is happening.
Rebecca############################
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Alison M Jaggar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Wow! Not your father's (or even mother's) APA! And our dues make possible this prompt and practical action! Thank you everyone.
Alison
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Subject: George YancyYou all received the email from Sarah Hoagland. I have received word from Amy Ferrer, Cheshire Calhoun and Tina Botts that an APA statement is already being drafted.############################
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