Hmm, is this to point out that the list has been here before (and still not managed to find a solution!?!).
While I do think that there is value and importance in having a forum (just) for debate and dialogue to occur, where perhaps there needs not to be any definite consensus i also think that if there is 'community psychology' in the UK then one of its most vital purposes must be to work in mindful action against oppression and marginalisation. While finding a collective 'voice' (both in terms of content and process) is obviously difficult and problematic, where can it be found if not on this list? Where else to people committed to 'CP' values go for solidarity?
Alison
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:47:50 +0000
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> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] urgent CPUK press release
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Is this an experiment? If it is, as a participant, I thoroughly object to this press release. I agree with the concept but not the
> wording. Normally, my membership to this group is best defined as a lurker, not a typer but if this is the ethos and general
> consensus of the majority who subscribe to this group, that the language is deemed appropriate for press release, I therefore wish
> to retract my subscription. Language whether you are looking at a collection of people or an individual, can make a peron or
> group feel powerful or powerless and are subsequently tagged as informed or deviant. 'Language gives us the power to order,
> request, persuade and accuse' (Potter & Wetherall in the 90s I recollect) and I think that there is, 'more than one way to skin a
> cat! (cliche I learnt as a child and a member of a 'deprived community/family'. If you report this statement as an opinion of
> 'us' as a collective, may I suggest that you identify the number of people that met and place that figure within the context of
> the amount on the list and state how many people subsribe to the wider network. Just a thought and emotion combined more than a
> thought and an emotion in a particular order....
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> >>> Rebekah Pratt <[log in to unmask]> 01/21/09 3:23 PM >>>
> I think it is about time we got this one released too...
> 50% objections by end of tomorrow please.
> Rebekah
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> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:31:31 +0100, Paul@home
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> >Conference paymentsDear CPUK list
> >Some established CPUK list members and I met recently to discuss what action
> >the network needs to take in relation to the crisis in the housing market.
> >Though our views were divergent, our meeting was amicable and we were able
> >to reach consensus through including all of our views on the subject in the
> >following statement which we intend to issue as a statement to the press
> >tomorrow:
> >"We, as a network of community psychologists, support the criticism made by
> >the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, of the Chancellor of
> >the Exchequer's suspension of the Stamp Duty for properties under £150,000.
> >We believe the poor should not be encouraged to buy properties at a time of
> >such economic uncertainty and should instead be encouraged to rent property
> >from housing associations. Further, we believe all property is theft and
> >that the Chancellor's decision to stimulate the property market makes him an
> >accessory to a social crime and makes estate agents entrepreneurial pimps
> >(though we in no way condone the recent job cuts in the sector). As a
> >network of community psychologists, community activists and users of
> >psychological services we encourage the government to make greater use of
> >public-private enterprise initiatives in the housing sector to ensure the
> >poor have increased opportunities for housing as such opportunities will
> >provide the poor with pathways to full citizenship through legitimate
> >economic activity in their respective communities and this will help
> >regenerate those areas where the underprivileged and criminally minded
> >live." (Press statement released on behalf of the UK
> >Community Psychology Network, Sept 3rd 2008)"
> >
> >Given the urgency of the issue, we intend to release the statement to the
> >press tomorrow morning unless a significant number of list members raise
> >substantial enough objections to us doing so.We are sending this statement
> >because we wish to show stoicism in the face of the current economic crisis
> >and hope that this will maintain ou>___________________________________
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