While I really didn’t claim to be anyone, just giving my name, I am concerned about this message attached to my response. Here is information about me:
Linda A. Bell
Emerita Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Women’s Studies Institute
Georgia State University.
Hope all that legitimizes me. I believe I’m up to date with dues to FEAST.
Thanks.
Linda
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I really agree with Noelle. Not everything we need to fight is a matter of life and death, even though much of it actually is at the moment. Surely, though,
we can—and must--resist on many different fronts at once. Not all of them will be equally momentous, but all may be extremely important when we think of the bigger picture: what kind of society we want. I always find myself uneasy when activist groups I
support ask me to rank issues or to choose THE most important issue from among many vital ones that they should be supporting.
Please remember that the early women’s movement lost its momentum for a very long time because it felt forced by the opposition to choose only one of the important
issues for which it was fighting—and it dutifully choose voting rights for women. It was a great strategy for the opposition to use since after women’s suffrage was granted, the response was withering disdain: after all, women had supposedly gotten what
they wanted. Let’s not make that mistake again, particularly when we are confronted with an administration that is so extreme on so many issues and probably would be quite happy to raise the stakes on some so that it can “magnanimously” back down on one or
two--if that might stop our protests and allow it to get by with everything else.
Linda Bell
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 7:05 PM
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Subject: Re: NHA action alert: Oppose the elimination of NEH
I respectfully disagree. Yes there are many priorities -- but they are all connected and not at all mutually exclusive. Fascists want to stop critical thinking and free expression, so it is vital to preserve the NEH as a voice and advocate
for the humanities. And how long does it take anyway? -- Noelle
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To all my very good FEAST friends — I was astonished to receive this from the APA today — its first post- T(yrant) missive to me. Compared to all the really awful things T is doing — advocating torture, reinstating black sites, barring refugees on grounds of religion/country of origin, building the “stupid wall” as Elizabeth Warren called it — I’m appalled that the APA is worried about NEH fellowships for the likes of us very privileged professionals. This is a low priority for me. Can the APA be convinced to address values and justice questions that matter to desperately vulnerable people? I’d like that. Diana
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Diana Tietjens Meyers
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
University of Connecticut, Storrs
New Book:
Victims Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights
For a quick take on the book, see this book blog:
My book-related OUP blog post is here:
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Date: Friday, January 27, 2017 at 2:47 PM
To: Diana Tietjens Meyers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NHA action alert: Oppose the elimination of NEH
Dear Diana,
There are reports that the Trump Administration is considering a budget blueprint that would call for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
This is the time to let President Trump and your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH!
Learn more about this blueprint and plans to stop it here.
We are asking supporters of the humanities to email and/or call their Members of Congress and the White House to express support for NEH.The National Humanities Alliance has created an email and phone patch-through system to make it quick and easy to contact your representatives. I urge you to take advantage of the system to call and email today.
All the best,
Amy E. Ferrer
Executive Director
The American Philosophical Association
University of Delaware
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