[H-PAD] H-PAD is hiring an organizer—and we need your help!

Van Gosse vgosse at fandm.edu
Fri Mar 11 14:29:10 PST 2022 

Dear H-PAD members and friends,


Right now we have a great opportunity to mobilize faculty against the
McCarthyite Right: they are coming for us as historians, and we need to
fight back.



H-PAD is about to hire an organizer for the first time in our history.
There is so much good work to be done, as highlighted in the “Call to
Action” that Ellen Schrecker and Molly Nolan sent you on February 28
(below).  In order to accomplish this work, we have hired an experienced
organizer, Sarah Sklaw.  Here’s her bio:



*Sarah Sklaw holds a PhD in History from NYU. Sarah’s research focuses on
the gendered implications of U.S.-backed and national development programs
in Nicaragua before, during, and after the Sandinista Revolution. Her
recently completed dissertation, “‘Tell your Mama to Surrender’: Gender,
Revolution, and Development in Nicaragua 1974-1992,” analyzes the impact of
imperial, revolutionary, and neoliberal development strategies on gender
and family relations. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post,
NACLA, and Public Books. Sarah is also involved in the immigrant justice
movement, and has worked as an interpreter on asylum cases in NYC. She has
also been involved in the graduate student labor movement through GSOC-UAW
2110.  *



Starting next week, Sarah will be:

·      Contacting faculty senates and AAUP chapters to urge them to pass
resolutions as part of the African American Policy Forum’s campaign in
partnership with the AAUP

·      Researching faculty actions around the country, including faculty
organizing in solidarity with K-12 teachers

·      Maintaining our comprehensive Opposition to the Right-Wing Culture
Wars <https://www.historiansforpeace.org/opposition-to-the-culture-wars/>
webpage



We need money to pay her, and make this campaign happen.  Please go to our
donate <https://www.historiansforpeace.org/donate/> page to help out.



In solidarity,


Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Ellen Schrecker via H-PAD <h-pad at lists.historiansforpeace.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 7:22 PM
Subject: [H-PAD] A Call to Action
To: <h-pad at historiansforpeace.org>


Dear Supporters of Historians for Peace and Democracy,



*This is a call for help.*



H-PAD has enthusiastically signed on to the campaign against what PEN calls
educational gag orders– i.e. all the state laws banning the teaching about
race, sexuality, and historical truth.



We do have an agenda for confronting the right-wing culture wars.

1.     We have enlisted in a campaign launched by Kimberlé Crenshaw’s
African American Policy Forum to encourage faculty senates to pass
resolutions against the educational gag orders. (For information about the
faculty senate academic freedom resolutions campaign, follow this link to
our most recent Call to Action.) The AAPF’s campaign is surprisingly
effective. It has already produced senate resolutions at such universities
as Texas, Alabama, Minnesota, Colorado, Ohio State, and Oregon, among
others and is beginning to get national recognition in the media.

 2.     We are putting together a website that contains reports and
documents that may be of use for faculty members, journalists, and other
groups and individuals concerned about the attacks on academic freedom.  We
will also collect and post up-to-date information about the faculty senate
academic freedom resolution campaign. No such central repository exists;
its value for the campaign against the educational gag rules is obvious.
Here is the link to the current version of that website.
<https://www.historiansforpeace.org/opposition-to-the-culture-wars/>

3.     We are also engaged in publicizing events connected with that
campaign such as the March 2nd Teach-In
<http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ej15u7m6d92e282c&llr=aw94hvcab>
 on “Race, History, & Academic Freedom,” sponsored by the National Center
for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the
Professions at Hunter College (CUNY). We hope to be able to present similar
webinars in the next few months as well.


*BUT WE CAN’T DO THIS WORK WITHOUT YOUR HELP*

There are only a handful of us in the H-PAD Steering Committee and the
H-PAD subgroup working on the Culture Wars, we are only human and we need
more warm bodies – with a strong political commitment to the movement for
peace and social justice and a willingness to make a concrete contribution
to that movement. Please join us in this important work. Even a few hours
will make a difference. And money won’t hurt either. The Steering Committee
is planning to hire a part-time assistant to help with some of our work,
but we still need volunteers to push resolutions by faculty senates,
councils or other faculty organizations and to help us gather information
on the culture war and how to combat it. We also need donations to continue
this work.

       Please let us know if you are interested in joining our work.
Contact Molly Nolan, mn4 at nyu.edu.


In Solidarity,

    Ellen Schrecker and Molly Nolan

        for the Steering Committee of Historians for Peace and Democracy



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-- 
Van Gosse
Professor of History
Franklin and Marshall College
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