Magnus Boman on Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:42:48 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> For those who wanted to "give Trump a chance" |
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:31 PM Michael Gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com> wrote: For those who wanted to "give Trump a chance" it seems he is out of chances already : For those finding it difficult to keep up - here's a run down of the week so far To recap: ... Thank you for the astounding list. The nerd world is slowly waking up to this one, in particular: USENIX has released the following statement, also available at https://www.usenix.org/blog/reaction-presidential-executive-order-2017-01 USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, strongly objects to President Trumps Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry To The United States, signed on January 27, 2017, which suspends the issuance of visas and other immigration benefitsincluding entry into the United Statesto nationals of countries of particular concern. USENIX organizes conferences that are the essential meeting grounds for discussion of the most advanced research in all aspects of computing systems. This Executive Order threatens the mission of USENIX by limiting the ability of non-U.S citizens, including engineers, system administrators, scientists, researchers, technicians, academics, and students, to attend our conferences and collaborate on the latest research. This collaboration benefits not only our members, but also industry, society at large, and the U.S. government itself. USENIX is committed to promoting open access to technical knowledge, while fostering diversity and the next generation of researchers. We have always welcomed members and conference attendees of diverse backgrounds, and will continue to do so. We invite authors (travel_authors@usenix.org), presenters (travel_presenters@usenix.org), or organizers (ravel_organizers@usenix.org) who are unable or unwilling to travel to our upcoming conferences under the current circumstances to contact USENIX to discuss how they can continue to contribute to the community. If you are unable to attend one of our events due to this Executive Order, we encourage you to speak out via Twitter (@usenix). "All we are saying is give smack a chance" - Tim Buckley, on stage in LA, Sept 3, 1969 M. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: