Hey everyone interested to help on this issue,
Let us know if you can help with any of the following things to mobilize for our event before Wednesday: It's coming soon!!
- You could "Like" the new "Chinese Student Misfortune" Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/RallyFo ... ?ref=ts&fref=ts) and invite your friends to the event (https://www.facebook.com/events/441775039193124/) It would be nice if someone who speaks Chinese can be an administrator of the Facebook page so you can edit anything and add things in Chinese, please just email me to let me know so I can add you! If someone can then make a second event in Chinese with what Min translated below that would be great.
- Someone could make a similar post/event on the Chinese Facebook ! Min made the Chinese version which is at the bottom of this email, now someone just has to make the Facebook event there in Chinese!
- You can pick up color flyers in the GSA Lounge (2030 Mackay) starting Monday 10am to start passing to your classmates and friends -If we are lucky the fortune cookies might be delivered Monday before 12pm, in which case we can start distributing fortune cookies with the flyers!) (Thanks Queenie and Liz for making this amazing flyer!)
- We could pass flyers at People's Potato line starting at 12:45pm on Monday and Tuesday : it's always more fun to go in groups: does anyone want to join me for Monday? can anyone go Tuesday?
- We could make announcements in classes Monday and Tuesday:
We have the class schedule for ENCS graduate classes (which have so many international students), so if you give me your availabilities I can tell you when there are classes. (It's probably best to do this in teams of two, one Anglophone, one Chinese-speaker - I can help with this Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning if anyone wants to join me).
Can someone find out where/when the SEL/ language classes that Chinese students take are? And where/when the OuiCanHelp French classes are?
- We could call students (I have a list of phone numbers) Monday or Tuesday evening, does anyone want to help with this?
- We could invite all our friends in person, by phone, by email, by text and to Facebook event (we can all do this!) - if you want to send something by email from an anonymous email you can do so from our new email address ChineseStudentMisfortune@gmail.com, the password is: fortunecookie
Helping to contact media:
Can anyone help to call the media either Monday or Wednesday morning? We need anyone who speaks either English or French speakers to do this: It just consists of a quick call to convince the media why this is important: I could send you a script and phone numbers if it helps!
Finding more speakers for press conference:
If anyone knows a student who had bad conditions in their homestay or anything else involving the China Recruitment program at Concordia, and would be willing to speak Wednesday 12pm, please let us know! (Xiao can speak about airport fee, Lydia can speak about misinformation about residence, Xiao Tian Zhang can speak more generally, and it would be nice to also have someone speak who had a problem with homestay)
Meeting with CSU lawyer, etc.:
The CSU (undergraduate student union) representatives and lawyer want to discuss with Chinese students about planning the future survey and legal information session for Chinese students, if you want to come it's on Monday at 4pm at GSA 3rd (top) floor