The wording of this is so similar to that adopted by the ECPR when @catherinemoury.bsky.social and I attempted to challenge their position on Israel and Gaza.
Down to paying lipservice to improving the lot of oppressed scholars.
Institutions circling the wagons.
ECPR?
I feel like we should host some kind of meetup for all of us in the same position.
it's an impossible position for them to hold. Trans rights are also divisive. So is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Stand for justice, or stand for injustice. Those are the options.
STOP USING AI TO MAKE FLIERS.
It changes Black people's faces. This has now happened to TWO colleagues.
Right! I will not sit in a big tent with genociders or their apologists. That's the division!
I do think that they are being very politically short sighted because the tides have turned irrevocably against them and the careers they have so carefully crafted are forever marred by this position.
Would it be too much to send this article along to this morning's letter writers? www.thenation.com/article/acti...
I genuinely struggle as I feel caught between the imperative not to cede space, the reminder that we ARE the majority of the discipline and certainly its future - THEY are the old, phased out, minority. And centering my own dignity in self, and the fact that EVEN the mention of Palestine is lumped.
Shelley Correll, Alford Young, Adia Harvey Wingfield and Heather Washington signed.
This time the letter was signed by the former president, and the future one (notably not all of council).
Notably, they have toned down their reproach of the 2024 Resolution, holding it up as one-of-the-good-ones.
How many ways do they need to tell us that they don't want us before we leave?
Dear Heba, We want to begin by sincerely thanking the ASA membership for the thoughtful, engaged conversations that have occurred over the last three weeks. The care and energy so many members have brought to these discussions reflects how much this association matters to sociologists and how invested we are as a community in its future. We received a wide range of feedback regarding the March 12 email with members expressing support, concern, and questions about the member petition process. We also understand that there is some frustration about the limits of what our association can do to influence global challenges. This email is narrowly focused on clarifying our bylaws. However, there is an intentional, ongoing discussion among Council about key issues, including how we might broadly support Palestinian and other scholars under attack. That discussion reflects understanding on the part of ASA leadership that improved communication to minimize confusion and frustration about policy and process is paramount for the health of our association. In 2023, the membership voted to amend Article 2, Section 9 of our bylaws to clarify that members can petition the association regarding public policy positions only. The amendment was intended to preserve members’ ability to influence ASA’s positions on public policy, while also reaffirming that operational decisions remain under the purview of the elected members of Council. This distinction ensures that governance and operational decisions remain the responsibility of organizational fiduciaries who are legally obligated to the organization, which is standard and best practice for nonprofit associations.
As conveyed by the word ‘public’, public policy positions focus externally, are focused on an issue of public concern to the association, and are intended to influence government actions, policies and practices in higher education, and public opinion. Examples of public policy positions include ASA’s 2004 statement affirming same-sex marriage, 2023 comment to the Florida Board of Governors opposing the removal of sociology, and the 2024 member resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Proposed actions that concern the association’s business practices, finances, contracts, day-to-day operations, and internal policies including access to ASA listservs and journals, and eligibility to advertise or receive membership and travel support are considered operational, and they fall outside of the scope of what is petitionable under our bylaws. We acknowledge that reasonable people could disagree about how to interpret the language of bylaws, and it is understandable that members have questions about what is permitted. ASA leadership consulted with legal counsel to ensure that the stated interpretation of the proposed petition is in accordance with Association bylaws. There is no realistic way for our bylaws to outline every potential action that would not be permitted. Instead, they are intended to identify actions that are permissible. The definitions outlined above are consistent with the distinction between public policy positions and operational decisions that motivated the 2023 amendment. The bylaws were considered, voted on, and adopted by the membership and we have an obligation to follow them. Over the last few weeks, we have had the privilege of engaging in conversation with members whose views reflect the diversity of our community. What we’ve heard in these conversations makes it clear that we are and we aspire to remain a big tent organization. Diversity of perspectives is a hallmark characteristic of the ASA that makes our community strong. As we look toward…
Though 500+ members committed to boycott he annual meeting, the American Sociological Association just reiterated their refusal to allow a vote on BDS, complete with a throwaway line about how they "might broadly support Palestinian and other scholars under attack".
Glad you're here Jeff! Congratulations!
same, friend.
what he's saying is basically: maybe if you were better subjects and listened to your oppressors more, re: gender, western civilization, and pro-Israel voices, you wouldn't be in this mess.
Just an incredible distortion.
And he begins with anger at being called out for using "circling the wagons"
"in some quarters the West itself was imagined as a source of oppression rather than liberation"
LOL YES. IT'S CALLED COLONIALISM.
He also uses "genocide" to describe the words of protestors NOT you, know, the actual GENOCIDE.
I can't.
From behind the paywall:
archive.ph/3YwW5#select...
There's something about this white-supremacy-coded-as-reason that drives me up a fucking wall.
We're here because we DID NOT stand up for leftist principles of universal education. NOT because we didn't teach enough Western Civilization, or condemn anti-genocide protestors.
You jackass.
In other words more than 1 out of 10 Israeli Jews do not live in territory that is recognized by the international community to be Israeli land. An equivalent number would be, say, 34,000,000 Americans in Venezuela.
For clarity re 10%. Over 800,000 Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank correspondent to roughly 7.4m Jews in Israel+Palestine overall.
Exhausting to live in a world where facts don’t matter
Fascist 4 Fascist 👯
They’re all going to sound just like this next year, even Newsom after opposing the billionaire tax.
Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”
America’s Mayor can’t miss.
Ceasefire announced for tonight
If Israel follows same pattern at last time it will mean massive bombardments until the deadline
A reminder that Israel violated the previous ‘ceasefire’ over 15,000 times so apologies if I’m sceptical
Still, better than the current horrors
Israel hit the south severely in the minutes leading up to the ceasefire. A contact in Sur, a coastal city in the south, told me there were multiple massacres
The brown enforcer of the white supremacist state is an alcoholic?
You don’t say…
The House passed our extension of TPS for Haiti with a 224 vote victory of Democrats & Republicans alike.
This has been a long-fought battle to defend our Haitian neighbors & our communities, and we're not letting up.
The Senate must take action without delay.
In 2023, Yoav Gallant called Palestinians "human animals." This belief is held implicitly or explicitly by much of American society. And American institutions engage with Palestinians on that basis, like our mere presence is an affront to decency.
Donate to Darializa's campaign here: secure.actblue.com/donate/cheva...
But one incumbent was outraised last quarter: Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who brought in more than $230,000. His most prominent primary challenger, DA-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier, raised close to $270,000. (Espaillat still has far more on hand than her: $1 million to $220,000).
Ok I’m slammed today but had to take a minute to celebrate this HUGE datapoint. @darializaforny.bsky.social outraised the seemingly untouchable AIPAC funded incumbent.
We can win y’all, donate!! Go to her page for the link.
Oh yes I’m talking about the tattoo decision! :)
I’m sorry that is really sad, I hope you find the right people to support you, or you find peace in breaking out in your own
