[Peace-discuss] Censorship at AWARE

[C G Estabrook]

AWARE has two email lists <Peace> and <Peace-discuss>. When they were founded, they were described as follows:

	“<Peace> is an AWARE mailing list for announcements and calls to action 
relating to anti-war, anti-racism and other AWARE issues. AWARE meeting minutes are also 
posted to this list.” 

	“<Peace-discuss> is an unmoderated mailing list for general discussion.”
 
The lists have different if overlapping lists of subscribers.

Stuart Levy has taken it upon himself to censor my posts to <Peace> on the grounds that the list is only for event announcements. That’s not what the description says, and in any case, AWARE as an organization has never authorized anyone to enforce the different descriptions of the two lists.

It’s difficult to see how censorship of AWARE email lists contributes to the local anti-war movement. 

Stuart and I have disagreed about aspects of the antiwar movement in the past. Our most recent disagreement was about antifa - he’s for it; I’m against it. But it would seem far better to discuss these differences than to suppress comments to an AWARE email list. 

--CGE