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> EthicalAPA and WithholdAPAdues wants to bring the following Resolution to the APA:

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> Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in
> settings where persons are held outside of, or in
> violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN
> Convention Against Torture and the Geneva
> Conventions) or the US Constitution (where
> appropriate), unless they are working directly for
> the persons being detained or for an independent
> third party working to protect human rights.
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> If we get signatures from 1% of all current APA members -- this includes those of you who are withholding your dues -- the APA has to bring this resolution before their entire membership for a vote. To read the whole resolution, footnotes, and frequently asked questions, with a link to the petition site, go to: ethicalapa.com
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> Or to add your signature to the petition without all of the above, go to:
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/apademocracy/index.html
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> You will need to know your APA membership number in order to sign. You can call the APA membership office at (800) 374-2721 (US & Canada Toll Free) or (202) 336-5580 (in DC).
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> Please consider signing this. If you have read today's NYTimes in which the mental deterioration of the detainees in Guantanamo is described in painful detail on page 1, recalling that the APA is the only professional association continuing to support the US government's practices in these illegal sites, I think you will agree that psychologists should no longer allow themselves to be implicated by association with these practices.
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> Ghislaine Boulanger
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