kat,

I've decided to support the boycott and that means this will be the first FA Conference in nine years that I'll have missed. Therefore FA will be minus my $350 registration fee. And I'll think long and hard about renewing my membership, that's another $60.

I know that my thinking on this is not unique among FA members. It seems to me that FA is looking at a $300,000 loss because of a stupid blunder, or a possible mass defection of members on an issue of principle.

I think the organization would be in a better position to rebuild if it acted on the principles that have underlied the folk movement for many decades.