<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px">Hi friends—Let’s meet<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="gmail-">tomorrow Tuesday May 12 at 12 noon at the corner of Park Street and Broadway to Protest</b> the Urbana Park District’s intention of killing 3/4 of the Canadian Geese population in the next month, as their way to ‘restore balance’. This killing of the animals would be engineered by the USDA, which calls this action ‘charity harvest’: the geese are collected, killed, processed into meat, and then given to food banks and the poor. </div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px">Killing 60 to 100 geese and goslings is not a solution to ‘restoring balance’—it’s a giving<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><u class="gmail-">up</u>, a giving<u class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></u>to a lack of imagination and compassion, a human-centric action.The Park District can do better—and if they can’t ,we will. </div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px">Please spread the word about the protest tomorrow at noon. Bring signs.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="gmail-">6 feet social distancing will be strictly observed. To participate you must wear a mask and gloves. </b></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px">Tomorrow night the Park District will meet with the park Commissioners 7-9pm to vote on this ‘charity harvest'—and we are invited to attend the zoom. (More on that tomorrow). Our Park Commissioners have a record of going along with whatever the Urbana Park District recommends—so we should not expect any dissent there. We’re going to need to bring the dissent. </div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px">Here is the survey that asks for your views on the geese (the survey is against the geese)—but it will help if you could take a few minutes to fill it out: <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6R2HWQ?fbclid=IwAR2LgBl6vPt9_RRvKHYRacGEAPRGn_0su-q3xhS1WSRNnmbzR89B481ryv4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" class="gmail-">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6R2HWQ</a>"</div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" clear="all"><div><img src="cid:ii_ka32p84b0" alt="download.jpg" width="266" height="190"><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Susan Parenti</b><br><i>Educational Coordinator </i><br><br></div><b>The School for Designing a Society </b><a href="http://www.designingasociety.net" target="_blank">www.designingasociety.net</a><br><br></div><i>Like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/designasociety" target="_blank">Facebook</a>!</i><br></div></div></div>