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SRRT Resolution on the Crisis in Kenya

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	peacefully assemble for the people of Kenya.		peacefully assemble for the people of Kenya.

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== ALA resolutions on the situation in Kenya ==

At the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in Philadelphia last week, the ALA Council passed the following resolution on the situation in Kenya. Below that you will
also find the resolution passed by the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the ALA which represents the position of the round table, not ALA. - Thanks to Al Kagan, African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration at the
University of Illinois Library (USA), who sent these documents via a Yahoo Group for progressive librarians.

=== Resolution on the Crisis in Kenya ===

WHEREAS, hundreds of people have been killed and injured, and thousands
have been displaced by the current violence in Kenya generated by the
controversy surrounding the December election results;

WHEREAS, the Kenyan government has recently curtailed freedom of the
press and broadcasting and the right to assemble and demonstrate
peacefully and non-violently;

WHEREAS, the American Library Association has endorsed Article 19 of
the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (policy 58.4)
which covers freedom of the press and freedom of expression - rights
which the Kenyan government is now denying its citizens;

WHEREAS, the American Library Association opposes any governmental
prerogatives that lead to the intimidation of individuals or groups and
encourages resistance to such abuse of governmental power (Policy
53.4);

WHEREAS, the American Library Association recognizes the vital
importance of free and open elections;

WHEREAS, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars has issued a call
for an end to (1) the widespread violence by the principal Kenyan
political actors, (2) restrictions of the right to assemble and
demonstrate peacefully and non-violently, and (3) recently declared
restrictions on press freedoms;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the American Library Association calls
for an end to the violence in Kenya, a return to press and broadcasting
freedom, and the right to peacefully assemble for the people of Kenya.

===SRRT Resolution on the Crisis in Kenya===

WHEREAS, hundreds of people have been killed and injured, and thousands
have been displaced by the current violence in Kenya generated by the
controversy surrounding the December election results;

WHEREAS, the U.S. media plays up the ethnic or "tribal" aspects of the
current crisis at the expense of the deep political and class aspects
of the conflict;

WHEREAS, the Kenyan government has recently curtailed freedom of the
press and broadcasting and the right to assemble and demonstrate
peacefully and non-violently;

WHEREAS, the U.S. government has a close military relationship with the
Kibaki Government, and has played a central role in building up Kenya's
military and internal security organizations;

WHEREAS, the American Library Association has endorsed Article 19 of
the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (policy 58.4)
which covers freedom of the press and freedom of expression - rights
which the Kenyan government is now denying its citizens;

WHEREAS, the American Library Association opposes any governmental
prerogatives that lead to the intimidation of individuals or groups and
encourages resistance to such abuse of governmental power (Policy
53.4);

WHEREAS, the American Library Association recognizes the vital
importance of free and open elections;

WHEREAS, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars has issued a call
for an end to (1) the widespread violence by the principal Kenyan
political actors, (2) restrictions of the right to assemble and
demonstrate peacefully and non-violently, and (3) recently declared
restrictions on press freedoms;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Social Responsibilities Round Table
of the American Library Association joins with the Association of
Concerned Africa Scholars in calling for an end to the violence in
peacefully assemble for the people of Kenya.

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