<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear Colleagues,<br>I would like to suggest a positive approach in supporting Ukraine in its hard situation. Namely, I suggest providing free-of charge membership in the IS4SI for some of our colleagues in Ukraine. Some of us know worthy researchers in Ukraine who do research related to information philosophy, theory and practice. Let us form a combined list of these researchers, discuss this list with the Board and then send official IS4SI invitation letters to the approved researchers. <br>In this letter, we can also express our attitude to this aggression.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Mark Burgin</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Marcin SCHROEDER" <mjs@gl.aiu.ac.jp><br><b>To: </b>"Joseph Brenner" <joe.brenner@bluewin.ch><br><b>Cc: </b>"Mark Burgin" <mburgin@math.ucla.edu>, "fis" <fis@listas.unizar.es>, "Wolfgang Hofkirchner" <wolfgang.hofkirchner@is4si.org>, "Gordana Dodig Crnkovic" <gordana.dodig-crnkovic@chalmers.se>, "annette.grathoff" <annette.grathoff@is4si.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 28, 2022 8:57:10 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Fis] The Sports, Music and Information Worlds<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Dear Joseph, Dear Friends,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">I support your proposal with my heart and my reason.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">This protest is not against any individual researcher, no matter what their nationality is. It is against unprovoked actions of the Russian government and military threatening peace in the entire world, against actions bringing harm, death and suffering to innocent people of Ukraine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Marcin</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span face="times new roman,serif" size="4" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;">Marcin J. 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font-size: x-small;">41 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576 JAPAN </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',serif; font-size: x-small;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman',serif; font-size: x-small;">(</span><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;" style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">〒980-8576 仙台市青葉区川内41) </span></div><div><span face="times new roman,serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span face="times new roman,serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #1155cc;" style="color: #1155cc;"><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="mailto:schroeder.marcin.e4@tohoku.ac.jp" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:schroeder.marcin.e4@tohoku.ac.jp" data-mce-style="color: #1155cc;">schroeder.marcin.e4@tohoku.ac.jp</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span face="times new roman,serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span face="times new roman,serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br></span></div><div><span face="times new roman,serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;">Professor Emeritus</span></div><div><span face="times new roman,serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;">Akita International University, Akita Japan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span face="times new roman,serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="mailto:mjs@aiu.ac.jp" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:mjs@aiu.ac.jp" data-mce-style="color: #1155cc;">mjs@gl.aiu.ac.jp</a> </span><span face="times new roman,serif" size="1" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; 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font-size: x-small;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span size="1" data-mce-style="color: #006d21; font-size: xx-small;" style="color: #006d21; font-size: xx-small;"><a style="color: #006d21;" href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies" data-mce-style="color: #006d21;">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies</a> </span><span size="1" data-mce-style="color: #006d21; font-size: xx-small;" style="color: #006d21; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"><br><br><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:52 AM <a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a> <<a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;"><span size="3" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: medium;">Dear Mark, Dear Marcin, Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span><div><span size="3" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span size="3" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: medium;">Today Switzerland gave up its otherwise precious neutrality, and two major sports organizations, FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, excluded Russian members and athletes. The Russian Director and Conductor of the prestigious Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland was fired.</span></div><div><span size="3" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span size="3" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: medium;">Many of us have positions in and relations to Russian scientific bodies and publications as authors, editors, reviewers and publishers. The question is whether individually or collectively, these relations should be terminated. The argument can be made that this would tend to be a hardship for and isolate our friends in Russia even further. For me, the counterargument is that any pressure that makes the Russian regime less viable internationally and, temporarily, isolated should be exerted.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">We are fortunate in having Mark Burgin and Marcin Schroeder at the head of our initiatives. Before making any moves, given their direct knowledge of that part of the world, I ask them for their guidance.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Thank you and best wishes to all,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Joseph </span></div></blockquote></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Fis mailing list<br>Fis@listas.unizar.es<br>http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis<br>----------<br>INFORMACI�N SOBRE PROTECCI�N DE DATOS DE CAR�CTER PERSONAL<br><br>Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br>Puede encontrar toda la informaci�n sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas<br>Recuerde que si est� suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicaci�n en el momento en que lo desee.<br>http://listas.unizar.es<br>----------<br></div></div></body></html>