Arabic-L:GEN:MESA Meeting Lockout

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1) Subject:MESA Meeting Lockout

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Date: 05 Nov  2004
From:Kristen Brustad <kbrusta at emory.edu>
Subject:MESA Meeting Lockout


> Dear AATA Members,

   Please read the following if you are planning on going to MESA this
year.

>
> Members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) are no doubt
> aware that the Hyatt Regency,
> scheduled site of MESA's 2004 annual meeting, is one of 14 San
> Francisco
> hotels that has locked out its workers as part of a contract dispute.
> The
> mayor of San Francisco is walking the picket line with the locked-out
> workers. The lockout has serious national implications.
>
> For background on the lockout and links to more information, see:
>
> http://www.merip.org/lockout/primer.html
>
> MERIP, the publisher of MER Online, has sent open letters to the MESA
> board
> and secretariat, as well as the Hyatt Regency, about the lockout. We
> encourage other institutional members of MESA and other book
> exhibitors to
> use our letters as a model:
>
> http://www.merip.org/lockout/mesa_open_letter.html
>
> MERIP urges the MESA secretariat to find an alternative, unionized
> venue for
> the 2004 annual meeting, so that members are not forced to choose
> between an
> important professional gathering and solidarity with this vital labor
> struggle.
>
> Middle East Report Online is a free service of the Middle East Research
> and Information Project (MERIP).

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