shouting loudly

[This is a draft blog post as submitted to SaveTheInternet.]
Academic associations tend to be politically conservative.
I don’t mean they revere Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman, though plenty of scholars do. Rather, each group–representing a field’s professors and graduate students–tends to evade controversy, rarely taking a public stance on an issue that might divide the membership.
Thus, [...]

I was excited when Carol Pardun, President of the Association for Education and Journalism and Mass Communication, told me that the group would be issuing a statement supporting network neutrality. I was ecstatic when she asked for my input on the statement.
Now, the statement is out, and I’m listed as a contact. Later today, thanks [...]

This is brilliant on so many levels.

Scrolling through Twitter this morning, I noticed the following tweet from Tom Mattzie (@tommatzzie), formerly of MoveOn.org:
I hope all my progressive groups and friends remember #Haiti today. I’d be bummed if they didn’t.
Mattzie has backed up the talk himself, pledging to match up to $1,000 in disaster relief donations from his fellow twitter-donators.  As the [...]