<div dir="ltr">If it's not too late, do you want to add age to this?<br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">* We are working with the conference
venue and hotels to ensure that their staff and organizations will not
discriminate on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual
orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or
religion.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Grace Dunbar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdunbar@esilibrary.com" target="_blank">gdunbar@esilibrary.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div>I heard back from Tony and Karen at the SFC and they see no issues with our position statement regarding North Carolina HB2.</div><div>Tony does not believe that our statement explicitly implicates the State Library or NC Cardinal.</div><div>He did ask for some clarification on the refund language which is incorporated below.</div><div>Please review and, if we're all in agreement, I'd like for us to publish this asap.</div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Grace</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">-----BEGIN-----</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Per the Evergreen Project's Event Code of Conduct <a href="https://evergreen-ils.org/code-of-conduct" target="_blank">https://evergreen-ils.org/code-of-conduct</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Evergreen event organizers are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. It is now important to reemphasize that commitment.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">In particular, the Evergreen Oversight Board is disappointed that the North Carolina General Assembly has chosen to pass legislation that nullifies city ordinances that protect LGBT individuals from discrimination, including one such ordinance passed by the Raleigh City Council. Since the 2016 Evergreen Conference is to be held in Raleigh, the Oversight Board is taking the following steps to protect conference attendees:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">* We are working with the conference venue and hotels to ensure that their staff and organizations will not discriminate on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">* The Evergreen Project, via its fiscal agent Software Freedom Conservancy, will refund in full registrations from individuals who feel that they can no longer safely attend the conference. We're committed to processing refunds requested on this basis, but it will take us some time to process them. Please be patient if you request a refund. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">------END-----<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:x-small">Grace Dunbar, Vice President</span></div><font size="1">
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