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
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
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