[Wamvan] How to make use of WAM Vancouver chapter liaisons + clarifications about confidentiality

Mon Jun 13 17:22:21 PDT 2011

Hi everyone,

WAM! Vancouver is WAM! international's newest chapter, and we apologize for
not having all the answers to your questions right now, as the organizers
are still in the process of determining our organizational structure. We
will be meeting tomorrow night to discuss our core values/mission, and we
will update all listserv members after the meeting.

If you are interested in becoming an organizer, please stay tuned for more
info, as we will be planning a new organizers' orientation in the fall.

In the future, if you have a question that you would like to address to the
WAM international office in Boston, please contact our *chapter liaisons
Elyse Jacobson and Tami Starlight.* Elyse and Tami will try to answer your
questions to the best of their ability, and if they do not know the answers,
they will contact the WAM office to inquire on your behalf.

*Elyse's and Tami's emails are the.xenophiles.violin at gmail.com and
tamistarlight at gmail.com. *

For those of you who are less familiar with WAM!, Jaclyn Friedman is the
founder and executive director of WAM!. She works from the WAM! head office
in Boston to support all the WAM! chapters, but if you have a WAM-related
question for Jaclyn, it would make things easier for everyone if we rely on
Elyse and Tami to act as our representatives.

I'd also like to clarify that it is *OK *to forward listserv materials such
as press releases and full articles outside the listserv without getting
explicit permission first since those materials are obviously meant for
public distribution.

However, if there is any ambiguity about whether something should be public
or not, *please make sure that you get explicit written permission before
sharing the information.
*
Let me know if you have any questions!

Sincerely,

Joanna

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was only inquiring about the international position, in order to get some
> context.  I did not know you were on this list, Jaclyn, and given that this
> chapter's highest priority seems to be confidentiality, I didn't feel it
> would be OK to reveal anything about chapter business.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Jaclyn Friedman <
> jaclyn at womenactionmedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear, chapters are free to operate how they like, as long as
>> they are in accordance with our values. If WAM!Vancouver wants to take
>> positions on issues WAM! as a whole doesn't take positions on, that's fine,
>> as long as it doesn't conflict with our core values. It would have been both
>> considerate and helpful to know why you were asking, and where my answer was
>> going, so I could have given you the actual information you need.
>>
>> -Jaclyn
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Joanna,
>>>
>>> I wrote Jaclyn and another WAM international member individually with a
>>> general inquiry about how WAM works; I did not post or receive anything from
>>> the WAM list - I don't belong to it at present, although I sometimes see
>>> items from that list that are forwarded to other lists I belong to.  I don't
>>> know if WAM has a policy about not forwarding items, and if they do whether
>>> people who forward items are violating the policy.  However, I'm sure I
>>> haven't received anything defaming anyone or violating confidences, just
>>> various kinds of leads for feminist media and announcements about WAM
>>> activities and media covering WAM.
>>>
>>> Not knowing that Jaclyn is on our list, I was careful not to say anything
>>> specific about our chapter in my query; but indeed my question to Jaclyn was
>>> stimulated by an item up for discussion in tomorrow's meeting.  It wasn't
>>> clear to me whether WAMVan was going to try to come up with an
>>> organizational stance on the issue, and I wanted to know whether that would
>>> be something normal for WAM or not.
>>>
>>> Apparently it is not.
>>>
>>> So, good that a discussion is planned, and good that no organizational
>>> stance will be created and enforced. I just heard that the Ontario Court of
>>> Appeals has upheld the original ruling.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Frieda,
>>>>
>>>> Did you forward your communication with Jaclyn to the listserv for a
>>>> particular reason? Did you get her permission to share the correspondence?
>>>>
>>>> I can't speak for WAM international, but at WAM Vancouver, members and
>>>> organizers have a range of opinions on sex work, and our prerogative is not
>>>> to push for consensus. Rather, we'd like to maintain a safer, respectful
>>>> space for the open discussion of feminist issues.
>>>>
>>>> However, we still have core values that we would enforce. For example,
>>>> since WAM international is gender-inclusive, WAM Vancouver will also not
>>>> tolerate discrimination on the basis of gender orientation.
>>>>
>>>> Does that make sense? Please contact me if you have any questions.
>>>>
>>>> You can read more about WAM international's core values here:
>>>> http://www.womenactionmedia.org/about/values/
>>>>
>>>> Joanna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: Jaclyn Friedman <jaclyn at womenactionmedia.org>
>>>>> Date: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:03 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: question about WAM
>>>>> To: Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com>
>>>>> Cc: Ariel Dougherty <arielcamera at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, we don't. That's not part of how we work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Frieda Werden <
>>>>> frieda.werden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does the international WAM develop and take stands on issues, such as
>>>>>> whether the members should support or oppose either legalization or
>>>>>> abolition of prostitution?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
>>>>>> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
>>>>> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joanna Chiu
>>>>
>>>> Freelance Writer
>>>> joannachiu.com <http://www.joannachiu.com/>
>>>> twitter.com/joannachiu
>>>>
>>>> Organizer, WAM! Vancouver
>>>> wamvancouver.wordpress.com
>>>> twitter.com/wamvancity
>>>>
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>
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> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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Joanna Chiu

Freelance Writer
joannachiu.com <http://www.joannachiu.com/>
twitter.com/joannachiu

Organizer, WAM! Vancouver
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