[AAACE-NLA]NIFL lists & archives

[leslie89]

As you may know, NIFL was forced to block messages containing advocacy
initiated by the literacy field on NIFL listservs, and to block access
to archived listserv postings containing such advocacy messages. While
it is true that federal resources may not be used for lobbying, a friend
on Capitol Hill suggested that it is no coincidence that this scrutiny
of NIFL listservs comes just as H.R 1261 nears a vote on the House
floor. Indeed, I heard that the chief architect of this bill is doing
everything he can to stifle the voice of the field regarding this
blatantly partisan legislation. 

At the COABE conference earlier this week, I heard that the Institute
also MAY be forced to block messages criticizing Administration policy
on its listservs! Again, my Hill friend said this may have been inspired
in part, by their over-zealous colleague having taken offense to a
discussion on one of the listservs about an article he wrote. This is
the same individual who is rumored to aspire to be the next permanent
director of an institute he has revamped to suit himself. If true, isn't
there an ethics problem here?
 

leslie89

"... unless people are educated and enlightened
it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty
or the capacity for self-government."
Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836


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