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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Hi, my name is Mary Goldman and I'm a member of the Hampshire College International Socialist Organization. We are trying to get as many groups as possible to help build this open forum this weekend, we need to see students from New Leaf there! We need your help in building this huge! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white; ">Over the course of the past month, an estimated over one million people have become involved with occupy movements across the globe. The movement presents an enormous potential to develop that is profoundly disturbing to current political leaders and heads of corporations. Excitement and energy around this issue is palpable with conversations that are heard on this campus among students and during classes. The global occupy movement presents an amazing opportunity to reenergize and strengthen activism on this campus.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; color: black; background-color: white; "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white; "> As activists, we all have different focuses. The global occupy movement draws links between these various causes and identifies them as common struggles of the global 99%. As activists devoted to various issues, we have common causes and common goals for broader struggles in social and economic justice that have the potential to build and strengthen one another. The occupy movement is an opportunity for the Hampshire College activist community to renew its vocal, radical, activist tradition, and to engage the broader student body in this exciting movement. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; color: black; background-color: white; "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white; "> As students, we are constantly faced with the challenge of financing our education. Many of us hold summer jobs and on and off campus work-study jobs in order to continue our education at Hampshire College. The college presents us with financial aid packages that attempts to package loans, borrowed money that accrues interest overtime and burdens us with debt after graduation, as</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> </span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white; ">aid</span></i><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white; ">when it is in fact an expensive stand in for actual need-based financial aid. There are numerous accounts of condescending financial aid officers at Hampshire College telling students to simply ask parents for 2,000-40,000$ sums that simply do not exist. Hampshire College’s financial ‘aid’ policy is something that could attract the broad support of the wider student body beyond Hampshire College activist and affinity groups.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; color: black; background-color: white; "></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white; ">Whether you are angry about the cuts to the James Baldwin program and financial aid, want to launch new divestment campaigns against Hampshire’s ties to the Israeli occupation, want to kick Sodexho off our campus, support staff rights on campus, change our sexual assault policies and the culture around sexual assault on campus, build the local movement against mass incarceration and racism, or have any other demands for this campus and community, you should bring them to this forum! This is an opportunity for us to launch coalitions on this campus and win real demands. </span></p>
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