#Ruth Wodak

[bookish2bookish]

El Poder de la Palabra en el Análisis Crítico del Discurso: Ideologías, Identidades y Transformaciones Sociales

Shylock después del juicio, una ilustración para El mercader de Venecia. Ejemplo de un estereotipos discursivo con el que se ha representando al pueblo judío Uno de los versículos bíblicos más atingentes a comprender el poderoso rol de la palabra sobre la acción humana es Proverbios, 18:21 que lee “Muerte y vida están en poder de la lengua, y los que la aman comerán su fruto”. De las palabras…

[livinthebookshelf]

Scholarship can make a significant contribution to enlightenment, yet ‘scholarship’ needs to take a stance and express itself in comprehensible ways, in many different public spheres and via different genres of text and talk.

Ruth Wodak (Interviewed by Andreas Schulz)

[linguistlist-blog]

TOC: Journal of Language and Politics Vol. 22, No. 4 (2023)

ICYMI: 2023. iv, 162 pp. Table of Contents Position paper Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’: Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on crisis and the normalization of anti- and post‑democratic action Michał Krzyżanowski, Ruth Wodak, Hannah Bradby, Mattias Gardell, Aristotle Kallis, Natalia Krzyżanowska, Cas Mudde & Jens Rydgren pp. 415–437 Articles Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine: A political discourse analysis Neil Hughes pp. 438–457 Emergent Twitter publics http://dlvr.it/SvXT5b

[leontiucmarius]

Ruth Wodak: "Misslungene Krisenkommunikation hat es FPÖ leicht gemacht"

Wut, Angst, psychische Probleme hätten sich mangels verständlicher Pandemiemaßnahmen zusammengeballt – zugunsten der ausländerfeindlichen, radikalisierten FPÖ, sagt die Linguistin Ruth Wodak Diese Nachricht wird übernommen. Nach dem rumänischen Gesetz Nr. 8/1996 können die Nachrichten ohne das Herz der Eigentümer übernommen werden. Leontiuc Marius

[ninis-study]

#Class Notes : Nov 11, 2021

FIRST POST OMG.

Karena aku pelupa, jadi Tumblr ini mau aku jadiin notes, mungkin? Kayak semacam catatan apapun yang terjadi atau terpikirkan saat kelas. Juga sebagai pengingat tentang materi yang udah pernah dibahas atau tugas-tugas yang diberi pas kelas.

Materi, tugas, atau poin pembahasan aku cetak tebal (bold). Hehe. Kalau yang warna merah, itu pengingat.

Mungkin agak telat, ya. Aku baru mulai belajar nulis di blog ini pas udah mau ujian akhir semester. Sekitar 4 minggu sebelum ujian. Tapi, gak apa-apa. Inget kata orang...

Ga ada kata terlambat untuk belajar.

Asik. Sekalian mulai habit nulis tiap hari 'kan bagus ya. Mana tahu beneran jadi penulis. AMIN.

Oke, lanjut.

1st Class  [07.45-09.30]

Kelas pertama hari ini mulai agak telat, biasanya jam 7.30. Hari ini, karena beliau mengalami kendala internet, kelas mundur jadi jam 7.45. 

Topik pembahasan : kalimat yang benar dan kalimat yang salah.

Inget ya, Nini. Jangan tanya-tanya lagi.

Kalimat yang benar -> memenuhi persyaratan kaidah struktur kalimat.

Kalimat yang salah -> tidak memenuhi persyaratan kaidah struktur kalimat.

Aku ga screenshot semua slidenya, tapi semoga aja dikirim powerpoint-nya. Oh iya, ga fokus juga karena ada suara ayam menggelegar. Bakalan ada Tes Kemajuan juga sebelum ujian akhir, mungkin nanti diinfokan di grup. Jangan lupa dicatat ke Notion.

2nd Class [10.00-12.30]

Yeah. Hari ini seharusnya presentasi kata serapan. Bu dosennya telat, kendala juga. Jadi, untuk memanfaatkan waktu, aku baca-baca PUEBI (Panduan Umum Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia) bab unsur serapan.

Unsur serapan berdasarkan taraf integrasinya :

Unsur asing yang belum sepenuhnya terserap ke dalam bahasa Indonesia. Jadi, istilah-istilah itu memang dipakai dalam konteks BI, tapi pengucapan sama penulisannya masih mengikuti cara asing. Contohnya, force majeur, de facto, de jure, dan l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme. Jujur, yang terakhir aja aku bingung bacanya gimana.

Unsur asing yang penulisan dan pengucapannya disesuaikan dengan kaidah bahasa Indonesia. Jadi, dalam proses penyerapannya dilakukan perubahan seminimal mungkin agar masih bisa dibandingkan dengan bentuk asalnya.

Untuk materinya ada di PDF PUEBI halaman 71 (aslinya 58). Diingat & dibaca. Kalo males baca PDF, ini linknya.

Akhirnya karena masih terkendala, beliau kasih tugas. Tugasnya menganalisis kesalahan berbahasa. ASDFGHJKL. Tugas paling tricky. Tapi akhirnya tadi aku ngerjainnya sambil diskusi dan beres tepat waktu!

3rd Class [13.00-15.30]

Mundur lagi karena kendala. Tapi, aku bingung kalau kelas ini mau nulis apa.

Oh iya, buku referensi kelas hari ini :

Metode Analisis Teks dan Wacana oleh Stefan Titscher, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wodak, dan Eva Vetter. Link : disini.

Bisa bertambah tiap pertemuan.

Poin-poin pembahasan hari ini :

Satuan-satuan bahasa

Analisis satuan bahasa

Fungsi bahasa menurut Jakobson

Wacana (berita, ilmiah, dsb.)

Kriteria teks tujuh dimensi De Beaugrande dan Wolfgang Dressler (sampai Kohesi).

Yea. Kelas hari ini beres lebih awal. Walaupun tadi sempat deg-degan pas ngerjain tugas kelas kedua. Terus juga banyak yang terkendala karena cuaca. Tapi semuanya happy ending. BESOK LIBUR, tapi masih punya PR kamu, Nis.

Revisi tugas Teori Feminisme Sastra

Konfirmasi objek analisis u/ ujian akhir (SL)

Rangkuman Teori Realisme Magis

Istirahat dulu, Ninii! Nanti lanjut lagi sambil bikin notes!

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Metode Analisis Teks & Wacana Penulis : Stefan Titscher, Michael Mayer, Ruth Wodak, Eva Vetter Penerbit : Pustaka Pelajar Halaman : 466 + xvi Halaman Ukuran : 15 x 23 cm ISBN : 978-602-8479-35-6 Tahun : Terbit 2009 Original Harga Rp85.000 diskon 25% Rp63.750 Sinopsis Buku Metode Analisis Teks dan Wacana ini merupakan karya metodologis yang menyajikan metode-metode analisis teks, menguraikan dasar-dasar teoritisnya, dan mencoba membandingkan dengan mengkontraskan ke-12 metode yang berbeda di bidang ini secara keseluruhan. Pada bagian terakhir buku ini dipersembahkan perbandingan metode-metode secara bibliometris dan perbandingan frekuensi munculnya kutipan dan refrensi dalam berbagai pangkalan data literatur. Selain itu, sebuah daftar istilah singkat akan menjelaskan sejumlah istilah teknis dengan tujuan memudahkan pembaca dalam melintasi batas-batas disiplin ilmu. #buku #bukumurah #bukuanak #novel #jualbuku #bukubagus #bukuislami #bukubestseller #bukuonline #tokobuku #bukuislam #book #bookstagram #indonesia #literasi #tokobukuonline #bukuagama #bukubaru #analisiswacana #bacabuku #bukudiskon #books #bukuimport #bukuanakmurah #baca #jualbukumurah #analisisteks #bukumotivasi #bookstore #indostar_bookstore https://www.instagram.com/p/CAOQ5NOBSze/?igshid=9tzcqp459vi5

[doctorcrowd]

There are benefits to viewing Europe as a collection of cities and regions rather than as a group of nation states

Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig present figures from their new ‘Social Atlas of Europe’, which provides a new way of illustrating the key social and geographic features across European countries. They argue that by viewing Europe in this way it becomes apparent that most of the real social divides across the continent are within states rather than between them.

On 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill stated that: “we must re-create the European family in a regional structure, called, it may be, the United States of Europe”. This idea of a Europe of Regions and of a European People instead of a Europe of nation-states has long been at the heart of the thinking and efforts that have gradually led to the creation of the European Union. Nevertheless, the recent ascendancy of populist groups and the so-called ‘Eurosceptic earthquake’ in the recent European parliament elections have contributed to the painting of a picture of Europe where Euroscepticism is the dominant trend and where the revival of old nationalisms and divisions is inevitable.

Yet, a closer look at the evidence reveals a much more complex picture, which is convincingly argued by Ruth Wodak in her recent blog. In fact, and despite the significant rise of the votes for Eurosceptic parties, the overwhelming majority of votes and parliament seats were won by parties that are strongly committed to the European project. Perhaps the best example is the triumph of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party whose leader, the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, in a speech delivered at the State of the Union before the European elections vowed to push for a United States of Europe during the Italian presidency.

It is also worth noting that according to the most recent Eurobarometer survey in Spring 2014 “close to two-thirds of Europeans feel that they are citizens of the EU (65 per cent of all those polled replying ‘yes’), after a 6 point rise since autumn 2013”. In addition, there is a small but rapidly growing number of formal and informal groups of Europeans (such as New Europeans, Bringing Europeans Together, One Europe and Eustory) who promote and celebrate the idea of a collective European identity and of a “European people” instead of a “nation-state” mentality.

Source: London School of Economics

[korrektheiten]

„Expertin“: Türkis-grüne Sprache normalisiere „Rechtsextremismus“

Info-direkt: Laut der Sprachwissenschaftlerin Ruth Wodak ist das türkis-grüne Regierungsprogramm in einer Sprache verfasst, die die Grenze des Sagbaren verschiebt. In diesem Zusammenhang warnt sie vor einer Normalisierung des Rechtsextremismus in Österreich.  Dieser Beitrag ist im Printmagazin [...] Der Beitrag „Expertin“: Türkis-grüne Sprache normalisiere „Rechtsextremismus“ erschien zuerst auf Info-DIREKT. http://dlvr.it/RYcFQY

[hellofastestnewsfan]

MADRID—On a recent Sunday, a compact huddle of about 100 principally middle-aged men and women slowly advanced onto Puerta del Sol square here in the Spanish capital. A canopy of pale pink and blue balloons swayed above them like a roving baby shower, the theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean blaring from speakers nearby. A man carrying a megaphone led a chant, “Feminism doesn’t represent me.”

The “March for Femininity,” as the demonstration was called, was a counterprotest to an enormous International Women’s Day rally held two days prior, a historic affair that saw hundreds of thousands of women throughout Spain stream down their cities’ major avenues to demand the application and expansion of anti-gender-violence laws. That day, headlines hailed feminism in Spain as a force to be reckoned with. Nearly 65 percent of college-age women here embrace the label and, it follows, form a potent voting bloc for national elections being held this weekend. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have fallen at their feet, trying to lay claim to “real” feminism, whether that has meant touting gender-neutral speech or championing women-friendly economic policies.

The smaller march that followed, however, was decidedly not courting the feminist vote. In a gravelly voice, a small woman introduced as a dissident of gender ideology—the expression is used by the global far right to designate advances in women’s and LGBTQ rights—declared that it was in fact men who were being discriminated against under the law. The crowd responded with thunderous applause. The sexes were being pitted against each other, and the only way to restore the balance, the speaker said, was by voting against feminist legislation.

Only one party in Spain is currently making that argument, and the speaker at the rally, Alicia Rubio, helps run its get-out-the-vote efforts. That party is Vox.

[Read: How Spain misunderstood the Catalan independence movement]

Vox—the word is Latin for “voice”—was founded in 2013 by a handful of conservative politicians who’d grown disenchanted with the People’s Party, the traditional right-wing bloc in Spain, for not adopting more hard-line stances against secessionists and progressive legislation passed under the former Socialist government. But it burst into Spain’s national consciousness only late last year, when it campaigned and won 12 seats in the regional legislature in Andalusia, in southern Spain, the first time any of its candidates had been elected to office. The party’s shocking ascent to power was, at first, ascribed to its stance against separatism in the northern Spanish region of Catalonia—Vox called the country’s dominant parties soft on separatists and campaigned on a “Spain first” ticket.

In many ways, its rise mirrors advances made by populist and far-right parties across Europe. A decade of slow economic growth, dislocations caused by the global financial crisis, and the vast wave of migration that has hit Europe in recent years have fueled disenchantment with traditional political groupings across the region. Spain had, for a time, been a rare exception to that shift. And in a way, that remains the case: Whereas most of the continent’s populist parties want to either gut the EU or leave it altogether, Vox’s focus is different. While blatant anti-feminist rhetoric is often employed by political parties in eastern Europe, such efforts are markedly less frequent in the west of the continent. That was, of course, until Vox announced its first legislative push in Andalusia—to demand that the region’s gender-violence law be scrapped.

According to official figures, 992 women in Spain have been murdered by a partner or former partner since 2003. Though the term femicide—instances of women killed by men on account of their gender—wasn’t included in Spanish dictionaries until 2014, violence against women came into brutal focus with the murder of Ana Orantes in 1997, a woman from Granada who shocked the public, first when she spoke on an evening TV program about the abuse she suffered at her ex-husband’s hands for 40 years, and 13 days later, when her ex set her ablaze. Newspapers began tracking gender-based murders around 2000. In 2003, the government created its own registry, logging the number of women killed by partners or former partners. An independent study that includes femicides committed by men with no prior relationship with their victims estimates that the number is actually closer to 2,000. These figures, and numerous petitions by feminist organizations, prompted the national government to pass a historic anti-gender-violence law in 2004, allocating funds to support victims of abuse and calling for the creation of specific gender-violence courts. In late 2017, Spain’s parliament unanimously passed a series of measures designed to bulk up the original law. Even the People’s Party, which in 2013 threatened to roll back abortion rights, was on board.

Vox is the first party to challenge the consensus, claiming the law allows and emboldens women to falsely accuse men. In a 100-point program unveiled in October, as it was campaigning ahead of Andalusia’s elections, the party called for the repeal of anti-gender-violence laws, to be replaced with legislation providing “equal protection” for men, women, children, and the elderly in cases of domestic violence and the removal of abortion from government-funded health services.

[Read: The new authoritarians are waging war on women]

The party also espouses what Sílvia Claveria, a politics professor at Carlos III University in Madrid, described to me as “modern sexism”: It advocates longer maternity leave and encourages women to be proud mothers, but once women want to separate from or divorce their partners, it shifts positions to take the man’s side. According to Manuela Carmena, the mayor of Madrid and a politician known for her efforts to promote women’s rights, Vox has sought to benefit from “the frustration and confusion of many men who feel displaced by the growing role of women in society.”

That strategy is apparent in remarks from Vox’s leadership. In a televised interview in January, the party’s president, Santiago Abascal, claimed that 87 percent of gender-violence accusations had been dropped because there was no evidence that the accused had committed a crime. (In fact, only 0.01 percent of gender-violence accusations are deemed false, according to data compiled by the office of Spain’s attorney general. The Barcelona-based lawyer Júlia Humet told me that some are indeed withdrawn or dropped, but frequently this is due to the cycle of violence itself: Women often give their abusers another chance out of a sense of love or loyalty, Humet said, or because they’re pressured to do so.) Vox’s leader in Andalusia, Francisco Serrano, a former judge who was suspended from his post in 2011 for changing a child’s custody agreement to benefit the father, has claimed that “a real genocide is under way,” of men attempting or committing suicide over false accusations.

The debate surrounding false accusations in particular has become a focal point in Spain’s culture wars in the wake of a high-profile case in which a woman accused five men of gang-raping her at Pamplona’s world-famous Running of the Bulls festival. When the men were acquitted of rape and found guilty of a lesser crime last spring, women throughout Spain took to the streets in what was considered the country’s #MeToo moment. Last summer, as the movement gained momentum, a self-proclaimed feminist government took office and promised to revise rape laws and make gender equality one of its top priorities.

That soon sparked a backlash, with several thousand men denouncing on social media and the Spanish version of 4Chan, ForoCoches, what they saw as doing away with the presumption of innocence. In February, a purple bus inscribed with the slogan “#StopFeminazis” beneath an image of Hitler wearing pink lipstick could be seen driven around Barcelona. The organization that chartered the bus, Hazte Oír (“Make Yourself Heard”), is calling on Spain’s biggest right-wing parties, including Vox, to repeal the gender-violence law. Vox has tapped into this macho reaction and doubled down on its anti-feminism.

Such platforms are more often seen in eastern Europe than in western Europe, Ruth Wodak, a linguistics professor at Lancaster University and the University of Vienna who focuses on right-wing populist rhetoric, told me. France’s Marine Le Pen, shy of calling herself a feminist, has come out to defend “women’s rights” (though she did so largely to prop up her anti-immigration policies). The Dutch and Scandinavian far right has “more progressive gender politics,” Wodak says. These are mainly manifested in an apparent embrace of LGBTQ rights, though this too is often at the expense of immigrants: In 2015, Sweden’s far-right party staged an unofficial gay-rights parade in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood. In Italy, Matteo Salvini, the country’s interior minister and leader of the League party, has said that abortion and “equal rights between men and women” were not up for debate.

[Read: The politics of a long-dead dictator still haunt Spain]

In that sense, Vox looks more like an eastern European party. Its policies look strikingly similar to those of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who recently announced measures to help mothers by rewarding those who have multiple children with tax cuts and financial subsidies. Wodak attributes the parallels to Spain’s more recent departure from fascism than its Western European neighbors.

Polls peg support for Vox at about 10 percent nationwide. At that level, it could play a kingmaker role and, some worry, be invited into government. According to available polling data, the average Vox voter is a man age 35 to 44, though Vox youth groups are picking up younger supporters too.

In approximately 20 interviews with young Vox affiliates and sympathizers, almost every person I spoke to started out talking about Spanish unity when I asked what had brought them to the party. But the second I asked about Vox’s gender policies, I was told, without fail (by both men and women), that they agreed 100 percent with the party line. At a recent party rally in Barcelona, I spoke to Enrique Lopez, an 18-year-old originally from Málaga, on the southern coast. Lopez, who wore a Spanish flag draped around his shoulders, superhero-cape style, said the party’s gender policies were as important to him as its unionist stance. “Women don’t need their own special law,” he told me. “Violence doesn’t have a gender.”

from The Atlantic http://bit.ly/2VnEnyk

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"The #Politics of #Fear: What #RightWing #Populist #Discourses #Mean," by Ruth Wodak traces how the #discourses and #strategies of these #parties persuade #people to #vote for them, and why they are quite successful. Review by @junandfos. https://t.co/1SSnXR6KHe https://t.co/fsJoW9Sq7T

"The #Politics of #Fear: What #RightWing #Populist #Discourses #Mean," by Ruth Wodak traces how the #discourses and #strategies of these #parties persuade #people to #vote for them, and why they are quite successful. Review by @junandfos. https://t.co/1SSnXR6KHe pic.twitter.com/fsJoW9Sq7T

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TOC: Journal of Language and Politics Vol. 22, No. 4 (2023)

2023. iv, 162 pp. Table of Contents Position paper Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’: Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on crisis and the normalization of anti- and post‑democratic action Michał Krzyżanowski, Ruth Wodak, Hannah Bradby, Mattias Gardell, Aristotle Kallis, Natalia Krzyżanowska, Cas Mudde & Jens Rydgren pp. 415–437 Articles Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine: A political discourse analysis Neil Hughes pp. 438–457 Emergent Twitter publics http://dlvr.it/SvVR1s

[frauspecht-aka-birschit]

„Die Medien haben Kurz mitgemacht“ Sprachforscherin Ruth Wodak über Sebastian Kurz’ Spiel mit den Medien, die Doppelstrategie der FPÖ und die neue Schamlosigkeit in der Politik

„Die Medien haben Kurz mitgemacht“ Sprachforscherin Ruth Wodak über Sebastian Kurz’ Spiel mit den Medien, die Doppelstrategie der FPÖ und die neue Schamlosigkeit in der Politik

Ruth Wodak zählt zu den wichtigsten Sprachwissenschaftlerinnen Österreichs und erforschte unter anderem die Rhetorik der Rechtspopulisten. Der Falter bat die Linguistin zum Gespräch, um auf das Jahr 2017 zurückzublicken, in dem Populisten in den USA und in Österreich die Macht ergriffen. Falter: Frau Wodak, ÖVP und FPÖ bestimmten den Wahlkampf und sitzen jetzt gemeinsam in der Regierung. Warum…

[katzova]

Ruth Wodak, Zur diskursiven Konstruktion nationaler Identität

[rightsinexile]

Calls for papers

Call for Papers for Higher Education Panel at IASFM Annual Conference

The International Association for the Study of Forced Migration is inviting submissions of paper proposals to be presented as part of a panel on higher education in refugee protection at its annual conference. The conference will be held from 24 - 27 July 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please submit all proposals, including your name, institutional affiliation, and abstract (250 word max.) and title to Dr. Andrea Koelbel by 3 September 2017.

Call for Papers for IASFM Annual Conference

The International Association for the Study of Forced Migration is inviting paper, roundtable, panel and presentation submissions for its annual conference. Proposals should focus on the themes of crises, precarity and refugeeness; changing durable solutions; civil society, new humanitarianism and citizens’ mobilization; politics of representation and changing identities; and reflective praxis. Submissions should be submitted online by 30 September 2017.

Call for Papers on representation of “exceptional migrants” in media discourse

Dr. Katherine Russo and Dr. Ruth Wodak have issued a call for papers for the submission of abstracts on the topic of the representation of “exceptional migrants” in media discourse. The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 October 2017. All abstracts should be sent to Dr. Katherine Russo CC’ed  to this email address.

Call for Papers by Forced Migration Review on Displacement in the Middle East

Forced Migration Review has issued a call for papers for its 57th issue, to focus on displacement in the Middle East. The expanded call for papers can be found online, and the deadline for submission of articles is 23 October 2017.

Call for Papers for Cross Border School: Knowledge and Practice on the Border

The Association for European Border Regions (AEBR) will organize the first edition of the “Cross Border School” on 24 October 2017 at Universidad Extremadura in Caceres, Spain. Conference organizers are seeking submissions for abstracts for the outlined sessions, providing a poster presentation or proposing a full workshop. Submissions can be sent and a full list of conference topics can be found online.

Call for Papers by Anti-Trafficking Review for “Irregular Migrants, Refugees or Trafficked Persons?”

The Anti-Trafficking Review has issued a call for papers for a themed issue entitled “Irregular Migrants, Refugees or Trafficked Persons?” Papers in this issue should focus on conceptual schemes and classifications of migration and their impacts. The deadline for full article and debate submissions is 7 January 2018 and all submissions should follow the Anti-Trafficking Review’s style guide and submission guidelines.

[jamesgierach]

Drug Policy Reform Dialogue on Eve of CND Vienna

March 10, 2017

Dear Jim

Thanks for asking about using my words

Please use them as you wish

Thanks for the explanation about your journey

I didn’t know that

But frankly I’m not persuaded

I still think that with limited time, energy and resources, we can be more effective trying to do things which will have a bigger impact, sooner. Such as: reducing/eliminating legal sanctions initially for use/possession and ultimately for some trafficking; expanding and improving treatment; making selected drugs available for retail sale in small quantities and low concentrations; taxing and regulating cannabis.

Best wishes,

Alex

Dr. Alex Wodak AM, Emeritus Consultant, Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent’s Hospital Visiting Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW President, Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Director, Australia21 Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, AUSTRALIA

Please visit the website of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation: http://adlrf.org.au/

On 10 Mar 2017, at 9:23 PM, James E. Gierach <drugnews1@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Alex –

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. It’s like receiving a response from a member of the U.S. Congress and not a form “I’ll keep your views in mind” response.

Do you mind if I share your thoughts on the Internet FB and Twitter via link to my Tumbler account?

My thought, is the impossibility of the challenge (“forever and a day”), “No one can get this done…” “You can’t do it…” is itself a motivator, a challenge…to those in power.

Either way, thanks for sharing your note with all recipients. Discussion!

One country filing a proposed amendment could kindle reform discussion, globally.

And incidentally, as you probably know, I support all reform at all levels – topical, seriatim, comprehensive: cannabis, needles, prisons, naloxone, human rights, civil forfeiture reform… – and not just treaty reform. How my efforts became so focused on treaty reform in recent years is a long story.

In 1994 I talked with Don Rose (“little victories kept us going,” https://www.thenation.com/article/don-rose-sixty-years-chicagos-warrior-justice/), an accomplished and acclaimed political consultant (former heroin addict) regarding a run for governor of Illinois on the idea of drug policy reform. Not so ridiculous. The year before I received about 200,000 votes in a Cook County state’s attorney, Democratic Party primary race, w/no Dem. party organization support, thanks to a generous Richard Dennis contribution that enabled a small TV ad buy. And Cook County represented the majority of votes in Illinois statewide elections.

Rose said, of course you’re right, Jim, we should end drug prohibition, I’m a recovered addict – but a good educational campaign would cost $1 million. And Don wanted $50,000 and a percent of the media buy to media/campaign consultant. Rule 1, reform costs money.

His second lesson for me: He never let a candidate campaign on an issue that he has no jurisdiction to change, even if he (or she) was elected.

As a municipal candidate one cannot change state law; as a state candidate you cannot change U.S. federal law; as a federal candidate you cannot change UN treaties that arguably bind Congress (except U.S. senators may ratify treaties and amendments thereto) (and philosophically, I don’t belief Trump believes in treaties. Well, maybe “American Indian Treaties” made to be broken).

So, the Don Rose rule and my 30 year end-drug-prohibition reform road eventually took me to the UN in Vienna and the CND (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015).

Those experiences and my leadership in LEAP as director, acting Board chair, speaker led to: (a) LEAPS’s attaining special consultative status to the UN ECOSOC re drugs; (b) my draft of LEAP’s “Proposed Amendment of UN Drug Treaties -2014”; (c) a LEAP-Czech Republic co-sponsored side event at CND 2015, “Treaty Amendment: a choice for drug policy reform” (Jim presenting); (d) my treaty proposal had Dr. Naidoo, president of the INCB, spend his entire address to plenary Session of CND the following year, 2015, rebutting my draft treaty amendment proposal point by point; (e) a series of five annual letters I conceived and drafted to “World Leaders” for distribution through UN mail in NYC, just before each annual CND session for four years and just before UNGASS2016, the letters all signed by Neill; (f) an invite from then-drug czar of Equador, Rodrigo Velez, to have me present my, first every, proposed comprehensive amendment of UN drug treaties to a cadre of North, Central and South American press over a three day outing to Quito and Guayaquil; and the Equador drug czar had my proposed amendment used as model for its draft but eventually could not get permission from his country to file it with UN Sec-Gen.; and (g) first name basis friendships with Global Commission on Drug Policy members, Ruth Dreifuss and Michel Kazatchkine, “What Jim is talking about is where drug policy eventually needs to go.” Why not now?

I have had many disheartening awakenings! But Vienna and UN drug treaties is where the “buck stops”; that’s where the prohibition tree is rooted and all its harms emanate. That’s why, for me, treaty amendment so high on the list.

It’s late. I think I may be Australian at heart measured by time zone.

Best to you,

Jim

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:37 AM, Alex Wodak <alex.wodak@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Friends,

I admire Jim’s passion and tenacity in the face of a much more hostile environment than I face.

I am conscious of how much we share - a conviction that current drug policy has reached its use by date long ago and no amount of tweaking can fix the problem.

Some of us, including Jim, argue that the primary objective is revising the treaties.

My view is that getting 200 countries to agree to revised treaties will take forever and a day.

My preference therefore is to see how much change is achievable now regardless of the treaties.

The approval of cannabis regulation in 8/50 US states since 2012 breached the spirit of the conventions and the commitment to regulate cannabis in Canada in 2018 will breach the letter and the spirit of the conventions.

A process has started which is now unstoppable.

We would all want that to go faster.

But at least it’s moving in the right direction.

Why get distracted by a difficult and protracted fight revising the treaties?

Best wishes

Alex

Dr. Alex Wodak AM, Emeritus Consultant, Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent’s Hospital Visiting Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW President, Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Director, Australia21 Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, AUSTRALIA

Please visit the website of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation: http://adlrf.org.au/

On 10 Mar 2017, at 5:16 PM, James E. Gierach <drugnews1@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Neill –

See Agenda of 60th Session of Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) starting Monday. Maybe our colleague Dr. Wodak is right and change in global drug policy through the UN is hopeless. Leaves me undaunted, because I will not accept that so long as there is a breath in me or a drop of ink in my pen. The UN 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Center Post and Fountainhead of Global Drug Prohibition for the World.“

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/566349360/events/Programme_CND_60.pdf

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http://jamesgierach.tumblr.com/post/158179376319/what-real-drug-crime-looks-like

http://jamesgierach.tumblr.com/post/157780155879/cutting-el-chapo-guzman-arrest-down-to-size

http://jamesgierach.tumblr.com/post/157477674599/united-nations-office-on-drugs-and-crime-the

http://jamesgierach.tumblr.com/post/157283219809/leap-artifact-for-60th-session-of-the-united

Jim Gierach Chicago, USA drugnews1@yahoo.com

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