<div dir="ltr">Andrea and Yamil, I think you've rightly and succinctly pointed out the potential issues in the EOB directly spearheading any fundraising or money collection. However, any individual in the community could certainly spearhead a collection/campaign so long as they didn't use the Evergreen logo in their efforts. <div>I will contact Tony shortly about speaking with the venue unless I hear dissent...</div><div><br></div><div>Grace</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Andrea Buntz Neiman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aneiman@kent.lib.md.us" target="_blank">aneiman@kent.lib.md.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I am so torn about this -- on one hand it is a political cause that
I deeply and personally support, and the passing of HB2 was very
distressing to me; however, I am not sure if it is appropriate of us
as the Board to spearhead something of a political nature where
money is involved. As Yamil pointed out, there may also be an issue
due to our nonprofit status. I too would be more comfortable if
individuals led this rather than the EOB.<br>
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Perhaps a statement from the Board to the effect of "in light of
HB2, we wish to reiterate that the Community and Conference are
welcoming to all regardless of race/religion/gender/sexual
orientation/trans* status/etc." that we can put out on the lists and
the website.<br>
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As an individual I'm happy to donate to a collection for a local
PFLAG or other advocacy group.<br>
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Agreed on contacting Tony and talking to the hotel.<br>
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<div>I am troubled by the discriminatory nature of North
Carolina's House Bill no 2, as well. I think the first thing
to do would be to release some kind of a statement of our
project and our conference's support of diversity and safety
for all people. Galen pointed me at one posted by the All
Things Open conference which happens to be in Raleigh in the
fall. <a href="http://allthingsopen.org/our-statement-all-things-open-2016/" target="_blank">http://allthingsopen.org/our-statement-all-things-open-2016/</a> </div>
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<div>I'd love to do something similar but since we don't have a
mission statement (?!?!) that details our support of free
software, our encouragement of diversity, an our general code
of conduct for the project... I think we'd have to take a
slightly different tack in our statement. Which, of course,
brings up the point... why don't we have a mission statement
and how can we expand our code of conduct to be more specific
about diversity issues and discriminatory practices. </div>
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<div>Since we don't have that in place... yet, I will ask Tony
at the SFC (as the fiscal sponsor of the conference) to speak
to the hotel venue and explain our concerns with House Bill
2. We want to ensure that they will work with us to make our
conference as inclusive and positive as possible. I think it's
important that the SFC handles this discussion because they
are the signatory on the contract with the venue and because
the host library is a State Agency and I wouldn't want to drag
them into this discussion.</div>
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<div>Any reasons why I shouldn't proceed with Tony contacting
the hotel?</div>
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<div>Thanks!!</div>
<div>Grace</div>
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not sure what we should do. Also open to
suggestions. Shall continue thinking.</div>
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In light of recent events in
North Carolina, I was
wondering if the Board might
consider leading the way in
showing the Evergreen
community's support for the
LGBT community in NC. We'll
be there in less than a month
and I think it would be a good
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collection and give the money
raised to a local LGBT advocacy
group? Just a suggestion. I'm
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