[Linganth] Fwd: [aaaunite] URGENT: Message from the SMA Board

[P. Kerim Friedman]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Robert T. O'Brien" <robrien at temple.edu>
Date: October 27, 2004 11:42:11 AM EDT
To: AAAUnite List <aaaunite at yahoogroups.com>

Please read the appended message from SMA President Craig
Janes and reply to the survey ASAP if you are an SMA member.

I'm so proud to be an SMA member right at the moment.

By the way, Society for the Anthropology of Religion is
currenly doing the same thing.

R
> October 26, 2004, 10:30pm MDT
>
> Colleagues:
>
> As you are no doubt aware, the Executive Board of the American
> Anthropological Association has decided to move the annual meetings
> from San Francisco, Nov 17-21, to Atlanta, December 15-19. You should
> have received a letter from AAA president, Elizabeth Brumfiel, which
> outlines the reasoning behind this move. Although there was a
> possibility that management's lockout of the unionized hotel workers
> might be ended by this afternoon, current information suggests that
> the hotel group has declined to do so. The Executive Board of the AAA
> has passed a motion that gives management until 5 pm PDT, tomorrow,
> October 27th, to agree to end the lockout and allow the union workers
> to return to their workplace. In the absence of such an agreement, the
> American Anthropological Association has declared its intent to
> withdraw its business from San Francisco and hold its meeting in
> Atlanta on December 15-19, 2004.
>
> Given this current information, the SMA Board presumes that the 2004
> AAA meetings will take place in Atlanta.
>
> It this decision holds the SMA board has decided to withdraw formally
> from the AAA meetings; that is, Executive Board and Business Meetings
> will not be held in Atlanta. However, SMA sponsored & invited
> sessions, as well as individual special interest group meetings, may
> go forward according to the wishes of organizers and participants.
> This is a decision that must be left to the individuals involved.
>
> The SMA Board will meet in San Francisco on November 19 in order to
> conduct its business.
>
> The SMA Board has several other matters and options before it. These
> include holding a public, "alternative" meeting in San Francisco,
> working with the Society for Applied Anthropology to move sessions
> which might otherwise be cancelled to their annual meeting in Santa
> Fe, April 5-10, and pressing the AAA to move its 2004 meetings to San
> Jose.
>
> Before we reach decisions on these various matters, and in order to
> craft a statement to the AAA that is reflective of SMA members'
> sentiments, it is critical that we hear from you. I'm writing to ask
> that you complete a very short survey found at the following website.
> Please respond ASAP; we would like to move forward as quickly as
> possible.
>
>
>   http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB223VUJ89SHE
>
>
>   Thank you,
>
>
>   Craig Janes
>
>   SMA President
>
>
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Robert T. O'Brien
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
robrien at temple.edu
215-803-5181

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