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Remember, we're still collecting signatures on the proposal! Send it to your friends, your parents, anyone in your personal @Oberlin network.
Oberlin Alumni for a Free Palestine@oberlinalumsfp7 May 2024
If you're an Oberlin alum, parent, or both, please add your name as a supporter of this proposal, so the board can see that this is what the Oberlin community wants. Our other asks are in our Linktree (in bio) bit.ly/parentsalumni
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.@Oberlin students are in contact with these Gazan families. If you can, please donate to their GoFundMes to help them evacuate. docs.google.com/document/d/1…

GoFundMe MAIN DOC

GOFUNDMEs These are GoFundMe, where fellow students are in contact with the recipients. Please choose multiple to disperse Aid and refer to the Email Template for ideas on contacting family/community...

docs.google.com
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.@Oberlin Alums--pledge to withhold your donations to the college until divestment. Read our open letter and sign here. docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Donation Withholding Pledge Letter

Dear President Ambar, Mr. Canavan, Mr. Yang, Dean Goff, and all whom it may concern: We, the undersigned alumni, refuse to financially support Oberlin College while it holds investments in the...

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Things @oberlin alums can do right now for the student organizers: -Donate at their Venmo, shown in the graphic -Write letters to the editor or op eds for the Review, voicing your support -Publicly pledge to withhold your donations til Oberlin divests -Share this and other posts!
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Solidarity with current @Oberlin students as they begin their (de)occupation of Wilder Bowl today. This account will be sharing updates, statements, and ways alums can get involved.
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bit.ly/obiealumdivest @Oberlin
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Hi fellow @Oberlin alums! We’re in the home stretch of our goal of 1000 signatures on this open letter. Please sign if you want to join the call for Oberlin College to divest from Israel and call for a ceasefire. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Sign the "SFP Alumni" Letter

As former Oberlin attendees, we are outraged at the college administration's complicity and lack of direct action in the face of Israel's bombardment of occupied Palestine, amounting to genocide. See...

docs.google.com
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Hey! Any Obies who have migrated to Mastodon, I’ve set up an account there that works like this was always supposed to - follow “@[email protected]” and it will automatically re-post anything that gets sent to it. (No waiting around for delinquent @misc to check replies…)
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p.s. for anyone who’s Mastodon-curious, here is an invite link, along with my pledge to personally help you out with any questions or issues that come up. It’s really great there, I haven’t looked back. -@misc mastodon.social/invite/styHh…

Mastodon

@misc invites you to join this server of Mastodon! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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Wow. The context helps. Well, I agree w her on at least 1 thing: the faculty & students haven’t had the voice & clout they should since, as she calls it, the time of S Fred—your & my time too. Right now I could never encourage my kid to apply to @oberlin. & it makes me very sad.
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Oberlin will pay Gibson's $36.59 million. @oberlin nytimes.com/2022/09/08/us/ob…

After a Legal Fight, Oberlin Says It Will Pay $36.59 Million to a Local Bakery (Published 2022)

Gibson’s Bakery said the liberal arts college had falsely accused it of racism after a Black student was caught shoplifting.

nytimes.com
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@oberlin @misc can you rt this, or post the article?
julian mairéad@horrorwine28 Aug 2022
absolutely awful to see that Oberlin is yet again sacrificing community, health, and safety in favor of saving money chroniclet.com/news/324008/c…

Changes have arrived for student health care at Oberlin College

If you really want to know what someone is all about, watch what they do, not what they say.

chroniclet.com
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A former @oberlin resident and @oberlincollege student who was shamefully run off campus gets her due
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I hope this guy watches over my daughter as she starts her journey in college! @Yeo_Athletics @ObieAdmissions @oberlinreview @cityofoberlin @oberlincollege @oberlin @yeo_wlax – at Oberlin, OH
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GLAMOUROUS People DANCE to WOBC.ORG Fridays 6-8:00 PM ONLY on WOBC-FM 91.5 Think one radio station can change the dance floor? So do WE - @oberlincollege #oberlin4me @ObieAdmissions @oberlin #AllRoadsLeadToOberlin 12 Inch, SINGLE / DISCO WHO?????
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