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The announced plans to address the results of the vote kick the ball down the road of an undetermined timeline and a vaguely defined taskforce. Shouldn’t the voices of a majority of members be taken into account promptly, and in any case prior to the Athens meeting?

Democracy works in very straightforward ways. The EAA membership has voted with their conscience, and the results speak for themselves.
Since the breakdown of the vote was stealthily included within an updated version of the Special Meeting Minutes, see the graph here for specific details:

Since the #EAA has buried the voting results deep in an email attachment, here they are:

So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:

Repeat after me: Archaeology is never unpolitical.

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#EAAforDemocracy Democracy is at stake at EAA: all archaeologists should be very concerned
A Special Meeting for members will take place on Jan 9th 2026 about the dysfunctioning of the current EAA leadership. See below:

🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE thePipeLine can reveal allegations that the President of the beleaguered European Association of Archaeologists [EAA], Professor Eszter Bánffy, was instrumental in organising a covert campaign to p…

This piece of news about the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social mess of the last weeks is very very very serious.

If you did not sign the campaign we are moving to try change things at the EAA yet, maybe this helps to decide… here is the link: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ

The news ⬇️

To all our EAA colleagues: our petition is back up and running.

If you already signed the previous form, your response is saved and you do not need to resubmit.

If you haven’t signed yet, use this link:

ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ

Spread the word!

The Google form calling for an EAA Special Meeting has been shut down on account of violating “terms of service”.

All current signatures are saved and a new form will be circulated soon.

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Any help sharing this much appreciated! ✊🏼
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Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks!

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