Please add my signature
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:43:29 +0100
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Subject: update on community psychologists' Gaza statement
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This is to update you on this statement. The statement is online at
http://libpsy.org/2014/07/19/statement-of-support-and-solidarity-with-the-people-of-gaza/
I will also post to http://www.compsy.org.uk
We have now 98 signatures. You can still sign the statement and
we'll add your details.
It has been sent to Guardian, FInancial Times, Morning Star, AL
Jazeera and Independent, as well as BBC. None have published
anything on it but that is not too surprising since there is a lot
of news and activity on Gaza at the moment. The link to the
statement has been shared widely via twitter. It has been shared
with Medical Aid to Palestinians, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and
contacts in Palestine (West Bank).
Do please feel free to share it further. Some signatures came via
people's contacts on other lists so please do again share this
update so people know something of what has happened since they
signed.
Carl Walker and Jacqui Akhurst took an earlier version of the
statement to the immediate past president of the British
Psychological Society for advice on whether the CP section is
allowed to issue it. Since the BPS is a registered charity there
are some limitations on 'political' activity, and while broadly
supportive of the idea, the advice was that the statement as it
stands is 'too polemical'. My own view is that it just states the
facts of the matter, but bear in mind that he was looking at an
earlier version with less emphasis in the psychosocial consequences
and on the retro-impact on the population in Israel too.
It may be that a slightly more finessed statement can be issued.
Thanks again to all who have signed and to Tamsin for pulling it all
together and updating the list this week.
--
From Mark Burton
From: Mark Burton
Scholar-Activist.
Visiting Professor,
Manchester Metropolitan University
http://steadystatemanchester.net
Steady State Manchester
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Liberation Psychology Network
http://www.compsy.org.uk
Community Psychology UK
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information on my publications.
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