I want to see the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continue its awesome work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This thread is a call to AGU and AGU members. 1/
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Thank you Julie for your volunteer work with AGU & for reporting. This is super precious right now. Full support on my end to keep the pressure on AGU leadership to keep supporting activities across the board and be transparent about everything! Anyway we can help keep the pressure up, let us know.
On Friday, held a Volunteer Leaders call. I am on the Honors Committee. Many of the volunteers in attendance as well as other AGU members were looking for answers. A few days earlier, AGU had removed their main diversity, equity, and inclusion page. 2/
After outcry from the membership, the pages returned. there was little explanation for why that removal had occurred. AGU Pres, Pres. Elect, and CEO sent a brief explanation to volunteer leaders via email that indicated a legal requirement for such take-down and review. To quote...3/
"Like many of your institutions, AGU receives federal grant funds, which means we are subject to some of the Administration’s Executive Orders...To ensure required compliance, certain pages on our website were taken down temporarily for review. These all have now been restored. " 4/
The ... above from AGU said "We also, of course, have profound concern for our members who are involved in activities called out in those orders and the risk to their employment, funding, and research." Wow - this sounds like they are concerned for members. How awesome is that? (not - stay tuned) 5/
To be clear - any AGU member who wants their membership profile turned private - for ANY reason - should absolutely do so. This isn't new nor is this unique to this time in history. In past, AGU members have been threatened for climate change research and action - AGU supported them. 6/
However, the above message from AGU - especially 1) "To ensure required compliance" and 2) websites "all have now been restored." - was simply untrue. Let's dig into "required compliance". At the Volunteer Leaders meeting, we were shown a slide indicating ANTICIPATORY COMPLIANCE! 7/
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