[AAACE-NLA]Clarification about this list

[Catherine B. King]

David:

Thank you for your clarification.

Catherine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: David J. Rosen <DJRosen at theworld.com>
To: <aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 6:16 PM
Subject: [AAACE-NLA]Clarification about this list


> AAACE-NLA Colleagues,
> 
> I would like to correct a misunderstanding in Catherine King's May 15th 
> message below.
> 
> This list -- the AAACE-NLA list -- as far as I am aware, is not a 
> government-supported list.  It is sponsored by the American Association 
> of Adult and Continuing Education, a private, professional organization 
> of adult educators.  It is not a Natinal Institute for Literacy (NIFL) 
> list, and is not archived on NIFL. It is hosted -- and archived -- on 
> the Literacy Tent, also not a government-sponsored organization. And 
> messages on the archives of this list have not been removed.
> 
> Also, let me take this opportunity to clarify that the previous NLA 
> list, which I moderated for ten years, was not sponsored by NIFL, and 
> did not receive any support from NIFL.  As a courtesy to subscribers and 
> the adult literacy education field, the archives were housed on NIFL. 
> Recently the archives were closed, for reasons that have already been 
> made clear on this list, then -- at my request, moved -- unexpurgated -- 
> from the NIFL LINCS Website to the Literacy Tent.
> 
> 
> 
> David J. Rosen
> 
> Catherine B. King wrote:
> 
> 
> > Government support of this list is either based on the
> > principles of free speech, etc., that this very government
> > is constituted by, or it is based on a violation of its own
> > tenets--specifically, in trying to control the content to
> > meet a party ideology or a religious doctrine rather than
> > the tenets of our Constitution that "our government" is
> > defined by.
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > The fact that we on this list were not made aware of, and
> > were not directly ASKED (and not told) speaks to an
> > egregious abuse of arbitrary power, to a total
> > misunderstanding of the  meaning of your own
> > government, and to the order and responsibilities of the
> > gift of stewardship--political, Christian or otherwise.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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