<div dir="auto">Please DO NOT POST THIS TO SOCIAL MEDIA. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 13, 2017 10:09 AM, "Gus Wood" <<a href="mailto:gwoodiii3@gmail.com">gwoodiii3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-im"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Greetings,</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">On <span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-m_8687678380360462519gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-m_8687678380360462519gmail-aQJ"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-aQJ">Friday October 13</span></span></span></span></font><sup><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="2">th</font></sup><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> from <span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-m_8687678380360462519gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-m_8687678380360462519gmail-aQJ"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-aQJ"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-aQJ">7pm-8pm</span></span></span></span></span></span>, the University of Illinois chancellor Robert Jones is holding a mega event at the State Farm Center to launch “With Illinois,” a campaign that Jones considers to be the “largest philanthropic” push in the school’s history.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">While the University celebrates itself for “alleged” philanthropy, it also neglects the graduate employees, faculty, and staff workers.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">We are treated unfairly, our working conditions are deteriorating, and the university is stalling at the bargaining table.</font></p></span></span><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">As we continue to fight for a fair GEO contract, we will use this event to protest the university’s treatment of the workers on campus.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Join us at <span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-m_8687678380360462519gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-m_8687678380360462519gmail-aQJ"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-m_1292475745070895578m_2636899851025376257m_-2788920012841804826gmail-aQJ"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-aBn"><span class="m_4864816276004427459gmail-aQJ">6:30pm</span></span></span></span></span></span> at the State Farm Center to protest the University of Illinois administration.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> <b>We will meet and coordinate at Kirby and 1st Street.</b> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">We will be chanting, playing drums, and holding signs with the purpose of educating people on our struggle in GEO bargaining and shaming the university administration for disrespecting graduate employees.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">We must make the university care about graduate employees and fight for our fair contract! The University only works because WE DO.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px">Reply to this email with any questions, concerns, etc. Thank you all so much.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px">Gus</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;font-size:12.8px"><br></p></div>
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