GEO encourages our members to spread the word and attend this exciting and important event this Tuesday, Feb 18, 8pm-8am!
You can also click on this link to the Speak Out! Thunderclap, which will change your FB, Twitter, or Tumblr status to “TAKE OVER SHAPIRO! 1,000 Speak Out for Racial Justice! Tues 2/18 from 8pm-8am #speakoutUMhttp://thndr.it/1feRV2l”
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/8394-1-000-speak-out-at-um-on-2-18
From the Speak Out! event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1400367210211848/?fref=ts
“The United Coalition for Racial Justice (UCRJ) will host a Speak Out event on Tuesday, February 18 from 8 PM – 8 AM in Shapiro Undergraduate Library to protest low underrepresented minority enrollment and poor racial climate for students of color at the University of Michigan. While Provost Pollack’s recent unveiling of new UM diversity and inclusion initiatives represents an important step forward, we must continue to pursue student-led, direct civic engagement to hold the administration accountable. To avoid repeating past mistakes, we must ensure that these new initiatives are executed transparently, with direct student participation at every phase: that the administration not only welcome our voices, but our presences at the decision table. *We also acknowledge that the experiences of students of color are impacted by more than race: we seek to open a dialogue around the intersections of race with class, gender, sexuality, ability, age, immigration status, and religion, to name a few possibilities.*
#speakoutUM
Please email ucrj.um@gmail.com to add your student organization to our list of Speak Out supporters! And please email us for questions or more information.
Schedule of Events:
8p – Open Mic (& Free Pizza!)
9p – Dr. Barbara Ransby Keynote
10p – Student Summit and Teach ins (& Free Pizza!)
11:30p – Open Mic (student organizations)
12a – Teach Ins
1:30a – Break
2:30a – Student organization Regent Addresses
4a – Workshop/Performance Art
5a – Grassroots policy strategy session
Next steps/building sustainability
7a – Closing comments
Sponsors:
Black Humanities Collective (BHC)
Graduate Employees Organization (UM GEO)
The Black Student Union
Arts of Citizenship
Residential College
MESA/Trotter
Department of American Cultures
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Department of History
Department of Women’s Studies
USists Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop
American Indian Studies Interdisciplinary Group
Doing Queer Studies Now Rackham Interdisciplinary Group
Supported by:
Hip Hop Congress
DAAS Racial Task Force
Integrating Diversity and Equality in the Academy (IDEA)
Graduate Employees Organization
The Black Student Union
Black Humanities Collective (BHC)
Student Union of Michigan
Association of Black Social Work Students
Native American Student Association
Students of Color at Rackham (SCOR)
Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC)
Becoming Educators of Tomorrow (BET)
A New Trotter
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
Center for the Education of Women
Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC)
Student Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE)
President’s Advisory Commission on Women’s Issues (PACWI)”
See you there!
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