[Peace-discuss] Last night's meeting

[C. G. Estabrook]

Why don't we concentrate on exerting some anti-war,
anti-racism effort -- rather than stamping out talking out of
turn?  --CGE


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>Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:27:51 -0500
>From: Alfred Kagan <akagan at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Last night's meeting  
>To: peace-discuss at chambana.net
>
>I want to say that I was very disappointed and frustrated at
last 
>night’s meeting.  AWARE has now gone two weeks since one of our 
>influential members not only disrupted our meeting, but was 
>extraordinarily rude and disrespectful to the facilitator, and 
>continually interrupted several members of the group who voiced 
>critical opinions. He then went on to publish divisive
comments in the 
>N-G which misrepresented and distorted my views and brought
disrepute 
>on the group.  Since these kinds of interactions are nothing
new, and 
>have occurred every few months (with somewhat less
intensity), I am 
>mystified by this lack of action.
>
>It appears that some members of AWARE are not taking this
seriously 
>enough.  Some are calling for “conflict resolution” rather than 
>addressing the need for respectful interactions and personal 
>accountability.  Some are ready to put this in the past, or
put it off 
>as long as possible.  Some are afraid of “dividing” the group.
>
>In case anyone is not aware, the group is already divided.  A 
>principled discussion is not going to further divide us.
>
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>Al Kagan
>African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library
Administration
>University of Illinois Library
>1408 W. Gregory Drive
>Urbana, IL 61801
>
>tel. 217-333-6519
>fax 217-333-2214
>akagan at uiuc.edu
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