03-05-2005, 03:47 AM
from an another forum
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As many of you know, there have been several postings on different lists and blogs maligning AID recently. Most commonly, they accuse AID of funding communist groups. Some have gone to the extent of labeling AID as a terrorist group that should be investigated by the FBI. Many of them quote the following web-site which claims to be a repository of "important AID documents".
http://www.geocities.com/aid_india_info/AI...html#aid_letter
Most of the information here is taken randomly out of context and grossly mis-interpreted. Some of the allegations are completely false and baseless. AID had the following response to the mis-information on this web-site.
http://www.aidindia.org/AIDRebuttal/
In addition we also sent out a statement on the smear campaign a few weeks ago.
http://www.aidindia.org/AIDstatement/
Please feel free to forward the above statements from AID if you come across any such slander emails or get queries from friends or donors.
Tracking down this slander and responding is taking up a huge amount of volunteer time. The AID media team and the first-responders team is handling this across AID. The media team is also trying to promote positive articles about AID's work and our projects.
I urge you to start thinking about the projects you co-ordinate and see if you can write about the progress or success achieved. Priya Keshav is co-ordinating the positive campaign as part of the media team.
Srikanth
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As many of you know, there have been several postings on different lists and blogs maligning AID recently. Most commonly, they accuse AID of funding communist groups. Some have gone to the extent of labeling AID as a terrorist group that should be investigated by the FBI. Many of them quote the following web-site which claims to be a repository of "important AID documents".
http://www.geocities.com/aid_india_info/AI...html#aid_letter
Most of the information here is taken randomly out of context and grossly mis-interpreted. Some of the allegations are completely false and baseless. AID had the following response to the mis-information on this web-site.
http://www.aidindia.org/AIDRebuttal/
In addition we also sent out a statement on the smear campaign a few weeks ago.
http://www.aidindia.org/AIDstatement/
Please feel free to forward the above statements from AID if you come across any such slander emails or get queries from friends or donors.
Tracking down this slander and responding is taking up a huge amount of volunteer time. The AID media team and the first-responders team is handling this across AID. The media team is also trying to promote positive articles about AID's work and our projects.
I urge you to start thinking about the projects you co-ordinate and see if you can write about the progress or success achieved. Priya Keshav is co-ordinating the positive campaign as part of the media team.
Srikanth
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