Urgent Request
Martin Hogan (mailto:hogan@NILE.INTAC.COM)
Tue, 12 Sep 1995 02:06:59 -0400
Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950912020616.6435B-100000@nile.intac.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 02:06:59 -0400
From: Martin Hogan <mailto:hogan@NILE.INTAC.COM>
Subject: Urgent Request
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
> I have been compiling a human rights and humanitarian archive since
> January 1994. This archive now runs to over 100 Meg, not including that
> section which was stolen by the Human Rights Centre at the University of
> Essex, England. They have now agreed to release my work to me provided
> that I sign the following:
>
> Subject to receiving the Undertaking of the Registrar of the University
> of Essex in the form agreed by my solicitors I agree to withdraw all
> complaints and actions made or contemplated against the University of
> Essex as a result of the events of 15 March 1995 and subsequently.
>
> The activities of Prof Boyle and Dr Gilbert of the Human Rights Centre
> leave me with a backlog of 6 months of archiving, during the final year
> of my degree.
>
> For this reason, I am asking those who read this if they can offer
> assistance - either financial, verbal in the form of written suppport,
> which I can use in future submissions, or physical in the form of people
> who can help catch up the backlog.
>
> I understand that everyone is pressed for resources but I believe that by
> creating a master archive, with links to all the main pages and with
> cross regeferences, I can save most human rigthts researchers and
> activists time and money; that is why I have continued with this work.
>
> If I do not find support, the archive I currently have at
> http://www.intac.com/PubService/human_rights/
> will not be fully updated until next year sometime.
>
> I have limited funds from my work over the summer, which will last for
> part of next year but it will not cover my expenses and those of
> maintaining my work, particularly as the university has withdrawn all
> support, physical and technical, which it is able to withdraw without
> entering into the area of victimisation.
>
> Please contact me if you have any comments or queries. Once I feel I
> have sufficient backing to cover the damage done by the University, I
> will soon have my work back on line, at the moment, it could never be
> completed and so I hesitate to sign an agreement which leaves me defenceless.
>
> Thanks for your time and consideration.
>
> peace
> Martin Hogan
>