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The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the unlawful dismantling of the NEH: "Congress believed NEH to be essential to the functioning of our democracy, and the public interest would be served by honoring that determination."

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Filed complaint ✔️ Filed motion for preliminary injunction ✔️

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Please help us to pay our lovely lawyers, if you like what they're doing on our behalf. Paving the Way is the fund we're using. www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

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Filed complaint ✔️ Filed motion for preliminary injunction ✔️

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If it is doing work you want it to do, please join your professional association (or renew your membership--it has probably lapsed). If it isn't doing all the work you want it to do, join it anyway and advocate for what you want.

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Just found out about this: never been more proud to be a member of the MLA. Please help them.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Funding the lawsuit for the NEH is important in this moment (please do help us out with that!), but joining or renewing your membership is crucial for the long haul.

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Funding the lawsuit for the NEH is important in this moment (please do help us out with that!), but joining or renewing your membership is crucial for the long haul.

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Early career essay prize, Victorianists!

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Please renew your membership in your disciplinary association--strength lies in numbers. Membership indicates commitment, showing that you're part of a larger movement sseting the value of expertise in science, the humanities, social sciences, the arts. Be part of something bigger than your own work

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Yay, Author's Guild! It's a battle on many fronts. authorsguild.org/news/ag-file...

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My most sincere thanks to everyone who has stepped up to contribute to our legal action with AHA and ACLS to restore the NEH. More than 300 people have chipped in. Here's the link to join the fight: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup... The fund we are using for the legal fees is Paving the Way.

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Bravo to MLA member and Princeton dean Gene Jarrett for this pro-humanities op-ed in The Hill. thehill.com/opinion/educ...

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MLA is fighting back against efforts to destroy NEH. Help them do this work.

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I have discovered that lots of people who are not professional humanists are eager to help fund a lawsuit against the administration by professional humanists. Join us. Every $10 makes a difference. Tell your friends who want to do something.

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No surprise that the federal data grab continues to fuel the AI race. And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress. Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.

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And the fund for the lawsuit is the one to which the link goes: Paving the Way.

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I have discovered that lots of people who are not professional humanists are eager to help fund a lawsuit against the administration by professional humanists. Join us. Every $10 makes a difference. Tell your friends who want to do something.

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Sorry to be this way, but just one hundred more $10 donations would get us to our goal for the lawsuit defending the NEH. Please chip in if you can, and ask a friend to. Thanks for considering this. www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

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Have you had an NEH Humanities Connections grant? Or have you lost one? Please get in touch w/me ASAP.

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So far, more than three hundred people have joined you. Thank you.

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I reiterate: if you think it is important to sue DOGE over the dismantling of the NEA, please help us to do that with a small contribution. Many small contributions will make this possible. The fund is called Paving the Way. www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

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Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

"The Humanities Are Not a Luxury" www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hiu7n...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

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Good gravy, if ever there was an advertisement for why we need the humanities and social sciences. What a depressingly nonsense take on the supposed neutrality of a discipline.

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What would you give to be able to sue DOGE over the dismantling of the NEH? You can give it right here, at the MLA's Paving the Way fund, which is the fund from which we will be paying the lawyers. Every $10 helps. www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Because of limited research $, I've let go of a number of memberships and subscriptions in recent years. Because of this lawsuit, I just renewed my membership in @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

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Enough is enough. @modernlanguage.bsky.social, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org filed a lawsuit to push back against the devastating changes at NEH. We all deserve a strong and vibrant @nehgov.bsky.social.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

3 ways to fight for the NEH: 1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming 2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have. 3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

It's official! We're suing!

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