[Peace-discuss] Censorship at AWARE

[C G Estabrook]

"That understanding of the purposes of each list” is different from their original description. (See below.)

In any case, it’s difficult to see how restricting information and discussion helps the antiwar movement.

—CGE

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 10:34 PM, stuartnlevy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Discussion remains open on peace-discuss.  Peace is not a list intended for discussions, including articles.  That understanding of the purposes of each list did not start with me.   
> 
> If you are interested in establishing a new open antiwar e-mail list, you are welcome to create one, invite people to it, and run it however you wish.   An invitation to join such a list would be entirely appropriate for the Peace list.
> 
>  -- Stuart
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: 10/17/17 17:33 (GMT-06:00)
> To: Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
> Cc: Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Censorship at AWARE
> 
> 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
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