Ms. PaintedCrow & Anu,

 

I hope you are both well. Ms. PaintedCrow, thank you for sharing so much of yourself, your spirit and your truth with us tonight. Copied on this e-mail are fellow students who have been working to organize students to build and support this movement. Please know that we gathered 186 students at our meeting and that your words moved a whole room - a whole school.

 

Here's our plan of action:

 

Right now, I am sitting with a number of student organizers to send out correspondence to students. Our message to students (that we will forward to you as soon as it is written - in the next few minutes) will be saying EXACTLY what you mentioned below, in addition to a sum up from this meeting and additional next steps.

 

Next steps for students include:

 

1. Urging students to organize their own Capstone groups to get everyone on board to remove the micro section of their individual assignments - Capstone groups who have confirmed to do so will be reporting back to Alexis Diaz (student organizer cc'ed here) by Friday @ 5PM. we hope to have consensus from all 30+ capstone groups by Friday and will report back to you.

2. Filling out the following online petition: http://tinyurl.com/5sm784x - a number of us are doing a ton of outreach tomorrow (wednesday) make this happen.

3. Corresponding with faculty with a brief recap for tonight, urging them to create a community forum so that students can engage with them now that students are better informed (and have heard from you)

4. After speaking with you, our group collectively donated $394 - we are urging students to donate more money (and know this wont be an issue) = we are ready and willing to arrange all accommodations for you to be here in case administration is not prepared to do this.

 

Are we missing anything? Please let us know. we are sending you much support and love. Please know that we will be sure to forward you all correspondence.

 

Thank you is not enough.