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Just one small correction to Jonathan's e-mail: unlike CASI, CND and Amnesty, Voices isn't a membership organisation (though we do have a mailing list of folk who receive the voices newsletter) so folk shouldn't be signing themselves off as 'members' of Voices! Best wishes, Gabriel voices uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Stevenson" <jjs32@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [casi] dodgy dossier > > Hi all, > > On Dan's point about writing as CASI, I should perhaps clarify: we do of > course consider members of this list to be part of CASI, and you're very > welcome to sign off letters etc as 'Member, Campaign Against Sanctions on > Iraq', as you would with Voices or CND or Amnesty etc. What we want to > avoid is the impression that these are official statements by CASI, which > clearly we need to discuss and approve as a committee! > > Also, Glen's dossier revelation was handled without using CASI's name > because he did it in his capacity as an Iraq analyst, specifically as an > expert on weapons inspections, and thus it had nothing to do with CASI. > Other than its being posted on this list, of course! > > Hope that makes sense. > > Best wishes, > Jonathan > > --- > > Co-ordinator | Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq > Gonville and Caius College | Cambridge | CB2 1TA > tel 01223 521914 | mob 07818 651124 > www.casi.org.uk | jonathan.stevenson@casi.org.uk > > > > Incidentally, if you're talking to people on either of these, could you be > > careful NOT to do so on behalf of CASI? The committee periodically gets > > complaints that CASI is overstepping its mandate by taking positions on > > issues other than sanctions. This reduces our effectiveness in opposing > > sanctions, and so we try pretty hard to avoid it. That's why Glen's dossier > > revelation, for example, was handled without using CASI's name. So please > > either write on your own behalf, or check with the committee > > [info@casi.org.uk] first. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss > To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk > All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk > _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk