<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hey </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New Leaf listserv</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope this email finds you well. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Given your mission statement and your work in bringing environmental justice/environmental awareness to Hampshire, we hope that you can stand in solidarity with us.</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">After four years of organizing, we have quietly watched Smith College stall from giving us a straight answer on our request for full divestment of the $100+ million they have invested in the fossil fuel industry.</font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Thursday, March 2nd</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Divest Smith College plans to begin our preliminary escalations to demand that Smith College fully divest its endowment. </span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">We are presenting to the Board of Trustees where we will present our updated requests from Smith College. Our requests of the Board of Trustees are…</font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><ul style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A public report and recommendation on fossil fuel divestment</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">April 1st</span></span> </span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If this report does not come out by <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">April 1st</span></span> (for any reason), we will take that as a</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> no</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and we plan to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">escalate </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">our campaign.</span></font></p></li></ul><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other members of Divest Smith College will be holding a vigil </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">outside the Campus Center </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">from approximately </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">4:30-5:30 p.m.</span></span> </span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">This vigil is dedicated to those who have been and will be displaced in times of climate change.</font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New Leaf friends</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, it would be great to have you stand in solidarity with us in our movement. We’d love to have some of your members be present at our vigil. This is the first step that we are taking to make Smith College accountable - to put their money where their mouth is. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Your </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">support in this would be instrumental in showing Smith College that there is student power. </span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Thanks so much for your time. Hope to see you there.</font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">In solidarity,</font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Sarina Vega</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Smith College '19</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Divest Smith College </span></font></p><font color="#000000">-- <br></font><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B2ejEWYmMS1SN2FWWEVlOEtUdUE&revid=0B2ejEWYmMS1SNEljMjdISEo0ZFJJRUg4eTU0TWZKbWtINS9FPQ" width="96" height="96"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">Divest Smith College</font><div><a href="mailto:divestsmithcollege@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">divestsmithcollege@gmail.com</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000"><a href="http://divestsmithcollege.com/" target="_blank">divestsmithcollege.com</a><br></font></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DivestSmithCollege/?fref=ts" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">www.facebook.com/DivestSmithCollege/</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">-- <br></font><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><span></span><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B2ejEWYmMS1SN2FWWEVlOEtUdUE&revid=0B2ejEWYmMS1SNEljMjdISEo0ZFJJRUg4eTU0TWZKbWtINS9FPQ" width="96" height="96"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">Divest Smith College</font><div><a href="mailto:divestsmithcollege@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0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