Hi Gavi, yes - thanks for sharing your protest: what a powerful and articulate email .
Annie
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Penny, thank you! No reply, but I felt the need to register my protest. When we start to accept the unacceptable as ordinary, that is a dangerous sign heralding what Arendt termed 'the banality of evil'.
Craig, your email was blank. Sorry if I missed the text.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, CRAIG NEWNES <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 9:14
Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] my reply to 'managing resistance to change' conference invitation
What a great email, Gavi. Did you get a reply?
> Dear 'Managing Change 2011 Conference',
>
> Instead of 'mitigating resistance to change' and intentionally ignoring
> meaningful discussions of the many problematic aspects of these changes,
> your conference seeks to dupe intellectuals into forgetting the meaningful
> role of resistance and the beneficial aspects of questioning policies that
> have already increased societal inequities. Having just returned from
> Poland, where the Psychology Department has a long history of healthy
> dissent against both Nazism and Communism, it is regrettable to see that
> capitulation and doublespeak about 'managing resistance' are the zeitgeist
> of the new England. It seems that Orwellian England has arrived.
>
> Your conference is an affront to intellectual ethics and integrity. I am
> appalled by this invitation and will absolutely not consider attending. I
> hope your efforts fail and that those with genuine leadership and courage
> to resist these extremely oppressive and destructive changes (i.e.,
> massive
> cuts to social welfare programmes like meals on wheels for elderly people;
> reduced budgets for social workers and rape crisis centres; police
> brutality against unarmed civilians; widening economic gap between rich
> elites and the working poor; increasingly xenophobic immigration policies;
> etc.) will speak out against these dangerous new policies before your
> entire country is in economic, ethical, and societal ruin.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gávi
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> Y. Gavriel Ansara, MSc
> PhD Candidate & Academic Tutor, Department of Psychology, University of
> Surrey
> Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, WISP, University of Warsaw
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> http://ansaraonline.com/
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> Managing Change: Delivering Public Sector Reform
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> 7th December 2011, The Barbican, London
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> As we know the public sector is undergoing major change, rather than
> discussing the policy behind the change this conference looks at how to
> successfully implement that change - Managing change can be complex, and
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> Mr Y. Gavriel Ansara, MSc
> PhD Candidate & Academic Tutor, Department of Psychology, University of
> Surrey
> Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, WISP, University of Warsaw
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