[Tlc] Pls add my name... & donations
Leslie Woodhouse
lesliew at berkeley.edu
Sun May 18 19:10:25 PDT 2008
Dear Justin,
Sorry to weigh in so late -- I've been gone a few days, and away from
email. How sad to come home to such terrible news. Please add my name
to the signers of the condolence letter.
BTW, is there a running total yet for the donations that have been made?
And where again should they be sent?
-- Leslie Woodhouse
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> 2. Re: TLC/VSG-letter of condolence for Roxanna Brown's family
> (catharin dalpino)
> 3. Re: TLC-Roxanna Brown (Kate Gillogly)
> 4. Re: Roxanna Brown letter of condolence (BennyWidyono at aol.com)
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> From: <justinm at ucr.edu>
> Date: May 18, 2008 2:23:29 PM PDT
> To: tlc at lists.ucr.edu
> Subject: [Tlc] TLC-NY Digest on detention
>
>
> Forwarded from:
>
> Hi,
> in case it is of interest, the New York Times has also written
> recently
> about immigrants and temporary visitors facing similar dangers, from
> US
> government authorities.
> sincerely, Magnus Fiskesjö
>
>
> Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyregion/05detain.html
>
> Death by Detention
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/opinion/06tue1.html?scp=1&sq=Death+by+Detention&st=nyt
>
> Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/14visa.html?ref=us
>
> ______________
> Dr. Justin McDaniel
> Dept. of Religious Studies
> 3046 INTN
> University of California, Riverside
> Riverside, CA 92521
> 951-827-4530
> justinm at ucr.edu
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "catharin dalpino" <catharindalpino at earthlink.net>
> Date: May 18, 2008 7:27:40 AM PDT
> To: "justinm at ucr.edu" <justinm at ucr.edu>, tlc at lists.ucr.edu, vsg at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: [Tlc] TLC/VSG-letter of condolence for Roxanna Brown's
> family
> Reply-To: catharindalpino at earthlink.net
>
>
> Please add my name.
>
> Thanks,
> Catharin Dalpino
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: <justinm at ucr.edu>
>> To: <tlc at lists.ucr.edu>; <vsg at u.washington.edu>
>> Date: 5/18/2008 2:42:32 AM
>> Subject: [Tlc] TLC/VSG-letter of condolence for Roxanna Brown's
>> family
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Please see the letter of condolence for Dr. Roxanna Brown's family
>> below
> and attached with the list of supporters. I will be sending this
> letter to
> her family on Monday morning. If you would like to be added to the
> list,
> please do not hesitate to contact me.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> justin
>>
>> Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues of Dr. Roxanna Brown,
>>
>> When a great and good person is taken from us, the shock calls upon
>> us to
> freeze the daily whirl of activities and face an irreparable loss in
> our
> lives.
>>
>> Your sister, your mother, your daughter, Roxanna Maude Brown was
>> such a
> person. She touched so many lives over the course of her own. A
> growing
> chorus of admiration and affection attests to the broad reach of her
> life
> and work.
>>
>> Roxanna's journey took her from the role of journalist, the
>> conscience of
> a nation,
>> documenting from the ground the unfolding tragedy of Vietnam, to her
> discovery of what
>> would be her life's work buried literally beneath her feet: the
>> ceramics
> of Southeast
>> Asia. More than once her pursuit of ceramics study through the
> countryside of Southeast Asia aroused the suspicion of the forces
> locked in
> mortal combat swirling around her. Amidst the horror of war, it
> must have
> been hard for them to see the innocence of her search for kilns and
> shards.
>>
>> Roxanna became a leading figure in the study of Southeast Asian
>> ceramics,
> and the culture of which they were a part. Her keen eye and vast
> empirical
> knowledge allowed her to shape theories of historical development in
> Southeast Asia that challenged accepted paradigms. That she was
> able to
> pursue her work and achieve what
>> she did without the force of institutional structure supporting her
>> was
> remarkable. When
>> she ascended to the Directorship of the Southeast Asia Ceramics
>> Museum,
> she seemed at
>> last fitted with the platform from which to make manifest for the
>> benefit
> of the public her
>> lifetime of study. The museum is a testament to her sensibility
>> and the
> rigor of her
>> scholarship. We hope it remains true to her ideals.
>>
>> Many have spoken of her achievements as a scholar, her unique place
>> in
> her chosen field of study. For those of us who were blessed to know
> her
> personally, her friendship was equally to be cherished. All of us
> have our
> own stories of Roxanna, our testimonials as friends and colleagues.
> Her
> irrepressible, infectious enthusiasm for Southeast Asian ceramics
> spread a
> charmed field of energy about all who came in contact with her. She
> moved
> with equal grace through mansions and the most modest of dwellings.
> She
> asked for little and shared much. Her gentle generosity and
> unjudgemental
> acceptance of difference and frailty in a field all too often marred
> by
> intolerance and avarice made her a loved as well as respected figure.
>>
>> But, compounding this tragedy, this is not a moment of grief at the
>> loss
> of a loved one
>> slipping away from us after a full, rich life, surrounded by
>> friends and
> family, whose last
>> moments are made as safe and soft as material comforts can permit.
>> This
> is a moment of
>> mischance. This is a moment of horror. This is a moment of grief
>> not
> only for the friend we have lost, but anguish for the suffering, the
> unjust, unnecessary, suffering of her last days and nights on
> earth. A
> vulnerable, trusting, undemanding soul thrust alone into the
>> netherworld of the institutional at its most cold and brutal. It is
> unspeakable.
>>
>> Many of us have discussed how best to pursue the questions that arise
> concerning the
>> circumstances of her most tragic and untimely death. We wish to be
> sensitive to your feelings and desires as we move forward. We feel
> there
> are many who need to answer for what has happened. We do not seek to
> return vengeance for victimization, but we seek illumination, and
> justice.
>>
>> It is not only the cruelty of Roxanna's incarceration we seek to
>> redress,
> but the slur
>> cast upon her name by the accusations that prompted her arrest.
>> For a
> scholar of such
>> integrity, who tirelessly sought to raise the level of ethical
>> practice
> in the trade in
>> ceramics, it is a cruel irony that her reputation has been thus
>> tainted.
> We cannot
>> bring back Roxanna, but we can try our best to clear her of any
>> shadow of
> wrongdoing, and restore her good name for the future.
>>
>> For all of us who knew her as a scholar and as a person, we will
>> remember
> her always as she was--dedicated, generous, gentle, warm. Roxanna
> will be
> greatly missed.
>>
>> In sorrow,
>> Caverlee Cary
>> Nhung Tuyet Tran
>> Pattaratorn Chirapravati
>> Hiram Woodward
>> Craig Reynolds
>> Melody Rodari
>> Alicia Carlos
>> Charles Keyes
>> Joyce Clark
>> Judith Henchy
>> Susan Kepner
>> Rebecca Hall
>> Louise Cort
>> Michele Thompson
>> Robert Brown
>> Emmy Bunker
>> Shawn McHale
>> Edward Miller
>> Boreth Ly
>> Bonnie Brereton
>> Charles Wheeler
>> Carol Stratton
>> Charnvit Kasetsiri
>> Leedom Lefferts
>> BJ Terwiel
>> Louis Gabaude
>> Thak Chaloemtiarana
>> Stanley O’Connor
>> Barbara Gaerlan
>> Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong
>> Richard Page
>> Eric Charles Thompson
>> Anne R Hansen
>> Philippe Peycam
>> Charles Keith
>> Christina Firpo
>> Nicola Tannenbaum
>> Larry Ashmun
>> Nora Taylor
>> William Lavely
>> Donald Mccallum
>> Nguyen Ngoc BICH
>> Bin Wong
>> Nick Menzies
>> Michael Ross
>> Philip Taylor
>> Darryl Johnson
>> Laurie Sears
>> Paul Kratowska
>> Quynh Kieu
>> Chan Kieu
>> Laichen Sun
>> Richard A. Ruth
>> Trude Bennett
>> Christine McDaniel
>> Justin McDaniel
>> Cari Coe
>> Jim Cobbe
>> Scott Laderman
>> John Stevenson
>> Karen Adams
>> Ben Kerkvliet
>> David Rehfuss
>> Hue-Tam Ho Tai
>> Sarah Grant
>> Geoff Wade
>> Volker Grabowsky
>> Kelly Meister
>> Nathan McGovern
>> Liam C Kelley
>> Anthony Zola
>> Ronachai Krisadaolarn
>> Vasudha Narayanan
>> Julia White
>> Vasilijs Mihailovs
>> Susan Lee
>> Nancy Tingley
>> Tana Li
>> Suteera Nittayananta
>> Douglas Padgett
>> Erik Davis
>> John Amos Marston
>> Haydon Cherry
>> Matthew Wheeler
>> Donald Swearer
>> Sommai Premchit
>> Ngô Thanh Nhàn
>> Robert & Carol Retka
>> Robert Acker
>> Melissa Pashigian
>> Bonnie Baskin
>> Philip Alperson
>> Tran Phuong Ky
>> Dao Hung
>> Nancy Wiener
>> John Guy
>> Ron Otsuka
>> Doris Wiener
>> Joseph Gerena
>> Kathleen Gillogly
>> David Lovell
>> Todd Perreira
>> Deborah Wong
>> Rene Lysloff
>> Hendrick Maier
>> David Biggs
>> Christina Schwenkel
>> Lan Duong
>> Tamara Ho
>> Muhammad Ali
>> Mariam Lam
>> Sally Ann Ness
>> Cecily Cook
>> Deborah Tooker
>> Catherine Raymond
>> Bokyung Kim
>> Dawn Rooney
>> Nha Trang Pensinger
>> William L. Pensinger
>> John N. Miksic
>> Goh Geok Yian
>> and many many others
>>
>>
>> ______________
>> Dr. Justin McDaniel
>> Dept. of Religious Studies
>> 3046 INTN
>> University of California, Riverside
>> Riverside, CA 92521
>> 951-827-4530
>> justinm at ucr.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "Kate Gillogly" <kagillogly at comcast.net>
> Date: May 18, 2008 9:03:59 AM PDT
> To: <tlc at lists.ucr.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tlc] TLC-Roxanna Brown
>
>
> Telling this story to my partner, an older African-American man, he
> was far
> less shocked than I was. He's heard too many of these types of
> stories over
> the years. While prisoners have a constitutional right to medical
> care, in
> fact they often receive grossly inadequate care. There is little
> funding of
> prison medical care - the neo-con argument is that prisoners should
> not get
> better medical care than "ordinary" hard-working citizens get.
>
> The everyday conditions of people in prisons, justly or unjustly,
> have now
> impinged on "our" world, and I suspect that the vehicle for that has
> been
> the expansion of the powers of the U.S. judiciary system post-9/11.
> On what
> grounds could an older woman who was disabled and highly respected
> in her
> community have been considered a flight risk? Why keep Dr. Brown in
> prison
> for so long without access to legal counsel or to friends and
> family? What
> happened to habeus corpus? What happened to innocent until proven
> guilty?
> Dr. Brown's case has really brought home to me that I've been
> ignoring the
> extent to which fundamental civil rights in the U.S. have been
> abrogated
> under the current political regime. I've been doing what Martin
> Niemuller
> argued against.
>
> I hope that we can help Dr. Brown's family find answers and
> forgiveness.
> But I also hope that cases like this will serve as a wedge for
> opening up
> and exposing the inherent injustices in the current justice system.
> What
> can we do to make this known and to try to make sure it does not
> happen
> again?
>
> Best,
>
> Kate Gillogly
> Visiting Faculty (Anthropology), Chicago State University
> Geography, Sociology, Economics, and Anthropology
> Program Coordinator, National Association for the Practice of
> Anthropology
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tlc-bounces at lists.ucr.edu [mailto:tlc-bounces at lists.ucr.edu]
> On Behalf
> Of justinm at ucr.edu
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:07 AM
> To: tlc at lists.ucr.edu
> Subject: [Tlc] TLC-Roxanna Brown
>
> Here is a link to an article that may be of interest to those
> following Dr.
> Roxanna Brown's tragic case. I forward it from Doug Padgett.
> Thanks,
> justin
>
> I'm sure other people have pointed this out to you, but the
> Washington Post just ran a series by Dana Priest on medical care in
> INS prisons.
>
> See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/
> immigration/index.html
>
> The facility Roxanna Brown does not seem to have been run by INS; it
> was a Justice Dept. facility run by the Bureau of Prisons. But it
> seems the horrific problems run right through....
>
>
> ______________
> Dr. Justin McDaniel
> Dept. of Religious Studies
> 3046 INTN
> University of California, Riverside
> Riverside, CA 92521
> 951-827-4530
> justinm at ucr.edu
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>
>
>
>
> From: BennyWidyono at aol.com
> Date: May 18, 2008 2:01:10 PM PDT
> To: justinm at ucr.edu, tlc at lists.ucr.edu
> Subject: Re: [Tlc] Roxanna Brown letter of condolence
>
>
> Justin, Please add my name Benny Widyono to the list.
>
> In a message dated 5/17/2008 2:38:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, zolaa at mozart.inet.co.th
> writes:
> Dear Justin,
>
> Thank you for including me.
>
> Yes, please add my name to the letter. I only met
> her a few times, but she was indeed an inspirational person.
>
> Best regards, Tony Zola
> Anthony M. Zola
> Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Resources Development Specialist
>
> Office:
> 124/170 Moo 1, Piyawararom Village, Bungyeetho
> Phraongchaosai Road (Khlong 4)
> Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12130, Thailand
>
> tel. (+66) (0) 2152-2348; fax: (+66) (0) 2152-2350
> Thai cell phone: (+66 8) (0) 9206-9377; Lao cell phone: (+856-20)
> 551-1369
> email addresses: zolaa at inet.co.th and zolaam at gmail.com
>
> Postal address:
> P.O. Box 42, Thanyaburi
> Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand
>
> At 01:54 PM 5/17/2008, justinm at ucr.edu wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >
> >Please see the letter of condolence for Roxanna
> >Brown's family attached and below. If you
> >haven't signed your name to it and still would
> >like to, please do not hesitate to contact me.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >justin
> >
> >Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues of Dr. Roxanna Brown,
> >
> >When a great and good person is taken from us,
> >the shock calls upon us to freeze the daily
> >whirl of activities and face an irreparable loss in our lives.
> >
> >Your sister, your mother, your daughter, Roxanna
> >Maude Brown was such a person. She touched so
> >many lives over the course of her own. A
> >growing chorus of admiration and affection
> >attests to the broad reach of her life and work.
> >
> >Roxanna's journey took her from the role of
> >journalist, the conscience of a nation,
> >documenting from the ground the unfolding
> >tragedy of Vietnam, to her discovery of what
> >would be her life's work buried literally
> >beneath her feet: the ceramics of Southeast
> >Asia. More than once her pursuit of ceramics
> >study through the countryside of Southeast Asia
> >aroused the suspicion of the forces locked in
> >mortal combat swirling around her. Amidst the
> >horror of war, it must have been hard for them
> >to see the innocence of her search for kilns and shards.
> >
> >Roxanna became a leading figure in the study of
> >Southeast Asian ceramics, and the culture of
> >which they were a part. Her keen eye and vast
> >empirical knowledge allowed her to shape
> >theories of historical development in Southeast
> >Asia that challenged accepted paradigms. That
> >she was able to pursue her work and achieve what
> >she did without the force of institutional
> >structure supporting her was remarkable. When
> >she ascended to the Directorship of the
> >Southeast Asia Ceramics Museum, she seemed at
> >last fitted with the platform from which to make
> >manifest for the benefit of the public her
> >lifetime of study. The museum is a testament to
> >her sensibility and the rigor of her
> >scholarship. We hope it remains true to her ideals.
> >
> >Many have spoken of her achievements as a
> >scholar, her unique place in her chosen field of
> >study. For those of us who were blessed to know
> >her personally, her friendship was equally to be
> >cherished. All of us have our own stories of
> >Roxanna, our testimonials as friends and
> >colleagues. Her irrepressible, infectious
> >enthusiasm for Southeast Asian ceramics spread a
> >charmed field of energy about all who came in
> >contact with her. She moved with equal grace
> >through mansions and the most modest of
> >dwellings. She asked for little and shared
> >much. Her gentle generosity and unjudgemental
> >acceptance of difference and frailty in a field
> >all too often marred by intolerance and avarice
> >made her a loved as well as respected figure.
> >
> >But, compounding this tragedy, this is not a
> >moment of grief at the loss of a loved one
> >slipping away from us after a full, rich life,
> >surrounded by friends and family, whose last
> >moments are made as safe and soft as material
> >comforts can permit. This is a moment of
> >mischance. This is a moment of horror. This is
> >a moment of grief not only for the friend we
> >have lost, but anguish for the suffering, the
> >unjust, unnecessary, suffering of her last days
> >and nights on earth. A vulnerable, trusting,
> >undemanding soul thrust alone into the
> >netherworld of the institutional at its most
> >cold and brutal. It is unspeakable.
> >
> >Many of us have discussed how best to pursue the
> >questions that arise concerning the
> >circumstances of her most tragic and untimely
> >death. We wish to be sensitive to your feelings
> >and desires as we move forward. We feel there
> >are many who need to answer for what has
> >happened. We do not seek to return vengeance
> >for victimization, but we seek illumination, and justice.
> >
> >It is not only the cruelty of Roxanna's
> >incarceration we seek to redress, but the slur
> >cast upon her name by the accusations that
> >prompted her arrest. For a scholar of such
> >integrity, who tirelessly sought to raise the
> >level of ethical practice in the trade in
> >ceramics, it is a cruel irony that her
> >reputation has been thus tainted. We cannot
> >bring back Roxanna, but we can try our best to
> >clear her of any shadow of wrongdoing, and
> >restore her good name for the future.
> >
> >For all of us who knew her as a scholar and as a
> >person, we will remember her always as she
> >was--dedicated, generous, gentle, warm. Roxanna will be greatly
> missed.
> >
> >In sorrow,
> >Caverlee Cary
> >Nhung Tuyet Tran
> >Pattaratorn Chirapravati
> >Hiram Woodward
> >Craig Reynolds
> >Melody Rodari
> >Alicia Carlos
> >Charles Keyes
> >Joyce Clark
> >Judith Henchy
> >Susan Kepner
> >Rebecca Hall
> >Louise Cort
> >Michele Thompson
> >Robert Brown
> >Emmy Bunker
> >Shawn McHale
> >Edward Miller
> >Boreth Ly
> >Bonnie Brereton
> >Charles Wheeler
> >Carol Stratton
> >Charnvit Kasetsiri
> >H. Leedom Lefferts
> >BJ Terwiel
> >Louis Gabaude
> >Thak Chaloemtiarana
> >Stanley O’Connor
> >Barbara Gaerlan
> >Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong
> >Richard Page
> >Eric Charles Thompson
> >Anne R Hansen
> >Philippe Peycam
> >Charles Keith
> >Christina Firpo
> >Nicola Tannenbaum
> >Larry Ashmun
> >Nora Taylor
> >William Lavely
> >Donald Mccallum
> >Nguyen Ngoc BICH
> >Bin Wong
> >Nick Menzies
> >Michael Ross
> >Philip Taylor
> >Darryl Johnson
> >Laurie Sears
> >Paul Kratowska
> >Quynh Kieu
> >Chan Kieu
> >Laichen Sun
> >Richard A. Ruth
> >Trude Bennett
> >Justin McDaniel
> >Cari Coe
> >Jim Cobbe
> >Scott Laderman
> >John Stevenson
> >Karen Adams
> >Ben Kerkvliet
> >David Rehfuss
> >Hue-Tam Ho Tai
> >Sarah Grant and many many others
> >
> >
> >
> >______________
> >Dr. Justin McDaniel
> >Dept. of Religious Studies
> >3046 INTN
> >University of California, Riverside
> >Riverside, CA 92521
> >951-827-4530
> >justinm at ucr.edu
> >
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Leslie A. Woodhouse
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
University of California, Berkeley
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