The Human Terrain System: New Recruiting Effort (a warning from the Network of Concerned Anthropologists)
http://quotha.net/node/2297
HUMAN TERRAIN TEAMS WANT YOU!
Click title for pdf flier from the Network of Concerned Anthropologists:
The Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) is expanding from Iraq and Afghanistan to Africa and Mexico, and they’re looking for “anthropologists.” (Thankfully, so far, most HTS-ers haven’t been anthropologists.)
BUT, YOU SHOULD KNOW:
- In 2007 the American Anthropological Association (AAA) condemned HTS
- In 2009 a special AAA commission said HTS is not “a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology”
- 1,000+ anthropologists signed a pledge not to participate in HTS
- 720 anthropologists, including 6 former AAA Presidents, called on Congress to cancel the program
- 3 Human Terrain Team social scientists have been killed
- The AAA commission found no evidence HTS is effective
THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS OPPOSE HTS BECAUSE:
- HTS endangers human subjects and contradicts AAA’s ethical code requiring anthropologists do no harm
- HTS is an intelligence gathering program
- HTS symbolizes the search for military solutions to conflicts that only have political, diplomatic, and economic solutions
- HTS endangers anthropologists everywhere
HTS promises big bucks. Get the real facts and spread the word!
Network of Concerned Anthropologists - www.ncanthros.org
[ed notes: also read... Press Release: Scholars and Human Rights Organizations Demand End to U.S. Military and Police Aid to Honduras Honduras is Even Wider Open For Impunity
Network of Concerned Anthropologists - www.ncanthros.org
[ed notes: also read... Press Release: Scholars and Human Rights Organizations Demand End to U.S. Military and Police Aid to Honduras Honduras is Even Wider Open For Impunity
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