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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Welcome
We are a group of psychology doctoral students and faculty committed to equality and social justice. Our professional organization, The American Psychological Association, has chosen to honor its contract to use the Manchester Hyatt as one of the primary hotels for its 2010 national conference in San Diego. This hotel is owned by Doug Manchester, who was an active financial supporter of Proposition 8 (the proposition to ban gay marriage in California) and who some have asserted has suppressed the rights of workers (see http://psysr.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/a-call-for-change-in-apas-position-on-the-boycott-at-the-manchester-grand-hyatt/ for a summary of the issues as outlined by Psychologists for Social Responsibility). APA’s rationale for not dropping the hotel can be found at http://www.apa.org/convention/2010/hyatt-2010.pdf
We have decided to set aside the time that many of us would have spent participating in this year’s APA convention in San Diego to initiate social justice activities in our own communities. Our intent is to stand together in solidarity to do what we can to make our own community a more just place for those of us who are GLBT and for our GLBT friends, colleagues, and clients. In addition, we wish to show our support for the non-unionized hotel workers at the Manchester Hyatt whose struggles to unionize reportedly have been repeatedly overturned. By choosing to do active social justice work instead of attending this year’s APA convention, we hope to evidence our commitment to the equality of all people in both word and deed.
The APA conference will be held August 12-15. We plan to organize social justice advocacy activities in our community on each of those days. We are looking for other groups of psychologists and psychology students who will join us in our pursuit of equality at the community level. Given that APA has said that breaking the contract with the Manchester Hyatt would lead to a $1 million charge, our goal is to show APA that honoring social justice principles would not only have been the best position from a human rights perspective but also from a financial perspective. One way to do this is to track how many students and professionals decided not to attend the conference. We hope that many of these non-attendees will join us in choosing to organize social justice activities at the time of the APA convention. We also hope to involve other groups in our university community who are not psychology students or faculty to stand with us and partner in our efforts to make our community a good place for everybody to live. Please consider joining with us to make similar efforts in your community, both during the week of August 12-15 and beyond.
Take a moment to comment below what you will be doing during August 12-15 to contribute to social justice in your community.
We have decided to set aside the time that many of us would have spent participating in this year’s APA convention in San Diego to initiate social justice activities in our own communities. Our intent is to stand together in solidarity to do what we can to make our own community a more just place for those of us who are GLBT and for our GLBT friends, colleagues, and clients. In addition, we wish to show our support for the non-unionized hotel workers at the Manchester Hyatt whose struggles to unionize reportedly have been repeatedly overturned. By choosing to do active social justice work instead of attending this year’s APA convention, we hope to evidence our commitment to the equality of all people in both word and deed.
The APA conference will be held August 12-15. We plan to organize social justice advocacy activities in our community on each of those days. We are looking for other groups of psychologists and psychology students who will join us in our pursuit of equality at the community level. Given that APA has said that breaking the contract with the Manchester Hyatt would lead to a $1 million charge, our goal is to show APA that honoring social justice principles would not only have been the best position from a human rights perspective but also from a financial perspective. One way to do this is to track how many students and professionals decided not to attend the conference. We hope that many of these non-attendees will join us in choosing to organize social justice activities at the time of the APA convention. We also hope to involve other groups in our university community who are not psychology students or faculty to stand with us and partner in our efforts to make our community a good place for everybody to live. Please consider joining with us to make similar efforts in your community, both during the week of August 12-15 and beyond.
Take a moment to comment below what you will be doing during August 12-15 to contribute to social justice in your community.
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