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Board Sends Letter to Arizona Governor Condemning Anti-immigrant Law
Dr. Héctor L. Delgado (left), SSSP Executive Officer, and son Evan joined the Los Angeles May 1st march against Senate Bill 1070. Board member Dr. Luis Fernandez (right) at a press conference in Phoenix with representatives of other organizations condemning anti-immigrant and anti-ethnic studies legislation.
The Board of Directors agreed unanimously to send the letter below to the Governor of Arizona and drafted a resolution sent to the membership of the SSSP, condemning and calling for the rescission of Senate Bill 1070, signed by the governor on April 23, 2010. The Rescission of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 Resolution voting ended on Monday, June 7, 2010 and passed overwhelmingly within our membership. Another letter was sent to Governor Jan Brewer along with a copy of the passed resolution. Please read and do what you can to bring attention to this issue.
Letter to Arizona Governor (PDF)
SSSP Resolution Urging the Rescission of the Arizona Senate Bill 1070
Letter to Arizona Governor with the Passed SSSP Resolution (PDF)
Consortium of Professional and Academic Associations Condemns Arizona Immigration Law (PDF)
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Our members are an interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in the application of critical, scientific, and humanistic perspectives to the study of vital social problems. If you are involved in scholarship or action in pursuit of a just society nationally or internationally, you belong in the SSSP. You will meet others engaged in research to find the causes and consequences of social problems, as well as others seeking to apply existing scholarship to the formulation of social policies. Many members are social scientists by training. Many teach in colleges and universities. Increasing numbers work in applied research and policy settings. Membership is open to anyone who supports SSSP's goals.
Purpose
This Society shall be a non-profit corporation to promote and protect sociological research and teaching on significant problems of social life and, particularly, to encourage the work of young sociologists; to stimulate the application of scientific method and theory to the study of vital social problems; to encourage problem-centered social research; to foster cooperative relations among persons and organizations engaged in the application of scientific sociological findings to the formulation of social policies; to foster higher quality of life, social welfare, and positive social relations in society and the global community and to undertake any activity related thereto or necessary or desirable for the accomplishment of the foregoing purposes.
What our Members say
SSSP brings scholars, policy makers, and activists together to bring about social change to achieve social justice. SSSP attempts to hear every voice and to celebrate intellectual and social diversity. SSSP members work in and contribute to their local communities and in places throughout the wider world. It is simply the most generous and the best organization to introduce students and young scholars to social justice work. |
The amount of support from individuals in the organization has been invaluable. Throughout my entire graduate school experience, someone was there to mentor me with presenting, publishing, acquiring funding and job searching. Also, as a graduate student, I feel that SSSP is very receptive to student involvement, particularly within the divisions. There is something for everyone within this national organization! |
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