Announcements
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The H-PAD steering committee endorsed the following sign-on statement on October 15, 2023. We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our urgent concern regarding dire and escalating violence in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory, which continues to result in significant human suffering and loss of civilian life. We condemn all violence against civilians by Hamas
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Dear H-PAD members and supporters, While we abhor the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas, we can’t let that horror prevent us from speaking out against Israel’s attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. Collective punishment via mass starvation is a war crime. When the intended target is two million people, half of them children, it is
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Dear H-PAD Members, We just received this important resolution this morning and I am forwarding it to you. Please consider signing it and sharing it with other AHA members you know. Thank you. Margaret Power and Van Gosse Dear Colleagues, We have until October 1 to submit this resolution from Scholars for a New Deal
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The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at UMass is beginning a year of programs called “The Whistleblower Project: A Series on Public Interest Truth Telling.” Our first event, on September 26 at 7pm ET, is an online panel discussion with antinuclear activists, “Nuclear Truth Tellers: In Memory of Daniel Ellsberg.” Please register to join
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Note: Historians for Peace and Democracy is gathering signatures for a proposed resolution on the “right to learn” for the January 4-7 AHA meeting in San Francisco. In order for it to be considered by the business meeting, 227 current AHA members must sign by October 1. Click here for the wording of the proposal
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Dear H-PAD supporters and friends, We have until October 1 to submit this resolution for consideration at the Business Meeting during the AHA Annual Meeting, January 4-7, 2024 in San Francisco. AHA leaders have been defending “the right to learn,” and this resolution urges all Association members to get involved. We need 227 members
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Ecuador Heads to Presidential Runoff with Opposing Visions on the Ballot” By Marc Becker, Nacla, posted August 21 A detailed analysis of the upcoming Ecuadoran election, with background on the social dynamics of the country's recent history. The author teaches Latin American history at Truman State University in Missouri,
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LInks to Recent Articles of Interest “American Carnage” By Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books, August 17 issue A review essay on Jeffrey Toobin's new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism (Simon and Schuster, 2023), which links right-wing anti-government violence to Republican politics going back to the Reagan administration. The
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Note: H-PAD announces an extensively updated version of its Culture Wars Archive, coordinated by Molly Nolan. Organized topically, It consists of around two hundred articles and statements from the past few years' of right-wing attacks on education – and resistance to the attacks. Another Note: A June 26 webinar on “Shifting Power Dynamics: Ukraine, Russia,
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Dear H-PAD, Please consider signing and circulating this open letter in support of Penn State faculty who are being targeted by the Right — in the form of a lawsuit and public defamation — for their antiracist pedagogy. You can read the letter and access links to relevant background here: https://forms.gle/o4un9e32XDec9Ypc7. As you know, these attacks