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Sociologists for Palestine
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Sociologists for Palestine
@Soc4Pal
Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) is a democratic and plural collective of sociologists who support the cause of Palestinian liberation.
Joined February 2024
- UPDATE: ASA Council responded & as expected they refused to endorse our resolution & plan to write their own. This spring members will vote between the two. HOWEVER, they also unilaterally struck the 2nd item on our resolution re: financial disclosure & military investments 1/
- HUGE NEWS! WE WON! We just learned that at their meeting in Montreal, the ASA Council voted to DIVEST from weapons manufacturing companies, to publish its investment policies, and to develop a process for reviewing other investments. 1/
- The results are in, the members of the American Sociological Association have spoken: THE ASA MEMBER RESOLUTION FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE HAS PASSED!!! 🇵🇸❤️ We are so deeply grateful for you all. Onwards to a free Palestine!
- Replying to @Soc4PalDespite 573 members of the ASA signing on to the resolution, Council claims that ASA members do not get to vote on investments because they are “an operational decision, not a public policy position.” We reject this decision which is fundamentally undemocratic. 2/
- Replying to @Soc4PalWe find shocking Council’s dubious claim that investments are not public policy decisions. Sociologists have consistently shown financial investments have a profound impact on social, economic, and political conditions. 3/
- Replying to @Soc4PalMoreover, this arbitrary bureaucratic decision violates ASA members’ democratic right to determine how our association spends our membership dues, donations, and other contributions. 4/
- Replying to @Soc4PalASA is not primarily a fiduciary organization. It is an organization that represents the discipline of sociology and its membership. Members have a right to participate in decisions about how the organization invests its assets and what it represents. 5/
- Replying to @Soc4PalFinally, removing the call for financial disclosure and withdrawal of investments in war-making corporations breaks with ASA’s own historical precedent which has included divestment from corporations that supported South African apartheid, or that were racist or anti-labor.
- Replying to @Soc4PalWe call on the ASA Council to: 1) include our 2nd action item in the Member Resolution on Justice in Palestine when it goes up for a vote by the full ASA membership. 2) Immediately disclose any financial investments in military and defense corporations, without waiting for the 7/
- Replying to @Soc4Paloutcome of the vote. 3) Share with members the policy that distinguishes between operational and public policy decisions, and reconsider this policy at the next ASA Council meeting. For more read the open letter sent to council posted on our website: sociologistsforpalestine.org/s/Open-Letter-… 8/
- Replying to @Soc4PalThere too you can join our mailing list, and find out other news and information about Sociologists for Palestine. Stay tuned this week for resources that will help you support the member resolution. Onwards!
- We have some big, heartening news. Eighteen (!!) former ASA presidents have issued a joint letter to endorse the Resolution for Justice in Palestine now on the ASA ballot. The list, a veritable who's who of the profession, speaks to the broad buy-in for this resolution.🧵
- We are horrified by the arrest of our colleagues at NYU. #FreeThemAllNOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying
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