STC Yesterday

Thank you for all of your support at the Seattle Tent City!!

Approximately 55 to 60 people showed up at Laurent Clerc Hall

What did our day look like???

10:00 am - some people showed up early to HELP SET UP!!!

11:00 am - food/potluck started to arrive/create posters/ etc

12:00 noon - Introduction of WAGUAA Officers - Richard Jacobs (president), Kay Amos (vice-president), Jeannie Brown (secretary) & Ronda Johnson.
***not present - Joan Forshay (treasurer) and Heather Bateh (webmaster)

Deaf President Now (1988) protest - video was shown

Jacobs summarized what he has learned from other leaders and explained the reason for this protest.

Brown talked about alumni's role in this whole protest from several months ago until now... What can we do?

Community Members: Discussed what rumors they heard. Shared stories they know directly. Cleared some myths and facts.

3:00 pm - started talking about Action Plan - What can the Seattle community do?

We agreed that we would like to send an open letter.

1) Zero tolerance for violence including no vandalism, no profanity, etc.

2) We would like to end the oppression that the students, faculty, staff, and alumni are experiencing right now.

3) We want the Board of Trustees to wake up and clean up their house.

4) We want the presidential interview and selection prcoess to be started over.

We want Dan Brubaker, our repsentative, to have a Washington State flag so he would not look like he is standing alone.

We want to be behind him. We know that the alumni are taking over the protest and letting students rest. We won't let our alumni Brothers and Sisters down so we SUPPORT them ALL THE WAY!!!

We agreed that the alumni does not like to be left in the dark. We need more communication and support!!!

Contact your friends who are students, faculty, or staff who are at Gallaudet!!! Check on them!!!

We will be using this blog to keep close contact and post letters.

Lester Morris videotaped our event. Be on the look out at www.deafnorthwest.com.

Make sure your information is updated through WAGUAA contact list.

We collected donations from some people. We raised $279.68! We will mail the check directly to Friends of Tent City =)

4:00 pm - Bison Song with Ronda Johnson and Gerardo DiPietro, alongside with Jeannie Brown as the drummer.

4:30 pm - group picture

4:45 pm - chant "Seattle For FSSA"