PCA GOVERNING BOARD STATEMENT ON UKRAINE

As an organization, the Popular Culture Association promotes and includes international scholars and practitioners of popular culture. The officers and members of the Governing Board of the Popular Culture Association deplore Russia’s invasion of Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin and the deteriorating situation there. We stand with those who struggle against political injustice, especially Ukraine’s people and academics in these uncertain times.

 

PCA ENDORSEMENT

The Popular Culture Association endorses the following statement made by the Society for American Music on Ukraine:

We condemn the military invasion of Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin. In this difficult time, we offer support to scholars, practitioners, and culture workers throughout the affected region and to those who have family or cultural ties with Ukraine….We stand in solidarity with people of good conscience everywhere and actively seek to make our [organization a place of] refuge and mutual understanding.

 

The Popular Culture Association also endorses the following statement issued by the American Library Association and its divisions:

[We] support our Ukrainian colleagues and will work with the global [scholarly] community to answer the appeal from the Ukrainian Library Association to provide accurate information as a means to support democracy and freedom of expression….[We encourage] our members to help raise public consciousness regarding the many ways in which disinformation and media manipulation are used to mislead public opinion in all spheres of life….

 

The original statements by the Society for American Music and the American Library Association and its divisions appear here (accessed March 4, 2022):

 

STATEMENT ON UKRAINE BY MUSIC SOCIETY PRESIDENTS

(https://www.american-music.org/)
 We condemn the military invasion of Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin. In this difficult time, we offer support to scholars, practitioners, and culture workers throughout the affected region and to those who have family or cultural ties with Ukraine. In the cultural and intellectual work our societies foster, including research on and performance of music from Eastern Slavic lands, we seek to connect, support, and include scholars and artists across borders. We stand in solidarity with people of good conscience everywhere and actively seek to make our societies places of refuge and mutual understanding.
 
Michael Buchler, President
Society for Music Theory
 
Julia Byl, President
Canadian Society for Traditional Music/Société Canadienne pour les traditions musicales
 
Daniel Goldmark, President
Society for American Music
 
Mark Rabideau, President
College Music Society
 
Steve Swayne, President
American Musicological Society

 

STATEMENT ON UKRAINE BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND ITS DIVISIONS

(https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/03/ala-stands-ukrainian-lib)

The American Library Association and its divisions support our Ukrainian colleagues and will work with the global library community to answer the appeal from the Ukrainian Library Association to provide accurate information as a means to support democracy and freedom of expression.

ALA has adopted into its policies Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, which states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.” 

ALA continues to encourage our members to help raise public consciousness regarding the many ways in which disinformation and media manipulation are used to mislead public opinion in all spheres of life, and further encourages librarians to facilitate this awareness with collection development, library programming and public outreach that draws the public’s attention to those alternative sources of information dedicated to countering and revealing the disinformation.

American Library Association Executive Board

American Association of School Librarians Board of Directors

Association for Library Service to Children Board of Directors

Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors

Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures Board of Directors

Public Library Association Board of Directors

Reference and User Services Association Board of Directors

Young Adult Library Services Association Board of Directors

United for Libraries Board of Directors