.How to Take Action.
Take action in support of the arrested students
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Call, e-mail, and fax Chancellor Moeser!
Chancellor Moeser’s phone number is (919) 962-1365. Call him and tell him to drop all charges against students and to adopt the DSP! Email chancellor@unc.edu, or fax to (919) 962-1647.
Send the following message to Chancellor Moeser: [Name of individual or organization] support[s] the basic human rights of workers at all levels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the right to organize and to be paid a living wage. We support the current nonviolent protest and expression of freedom of speech being exercised by students in Student Action with Workers, affiliated with United Students against Sweatshops, who are currently occupying the office of the Chancellor of the University. We call on the University and the Chancellor to respond affirmatively to the ethical concerns of the student protest, by affirming the university’s determination to sign on to Designated Suppliers Program immediately as outlined by the student demands presented to the Chancellor’s office on April 17, 2008, on the first day of the sit-in. We further call upon the University not to take any disciplinary action, academic, legal, or otherwise, on the students engaging in peaceful civil disobedience.
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Call and e-mail members of the Board of Trustees!
Find names, emails and phone numbers here. The Chancellor reports to the Board of Trustees and will listen to them. Tell them that the Chancellor should listen to the people of his University, drop all charges against peaceful students and adopt the DSP!!
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Hey comrades–
Thank you for participating in this important action. Taking back our universities and demanding that they be administered ethically is one of the most important fights we have as students and workers.
Student Power!
In solidarity,
Isaac Kamola
University of Minnesota
Hi SAWers,
Ditto on thanks for the work you’re doing right now. The power we have over the choices and policies our universities make is some of the most important we have. The action you’re taking is showing a lot of peole that we students and workers know that and, more importantly, know what it should be used for. Keep fighting and know there are a lot of us outside Chapel Hill that are behind you and your cause.
In solidarity,
Heather Steffen
Carnegie Mellon University
You folks are amazing — and stubborn. Keep up the struggle on behalf of labor rights! You’re the moral conscience of the university. We’re behind you!