Next SECS Meeting This Wednesday at 6:30! 🌱

Thanks to everyone who came out last Friday to support our collective right to protest. As we are now firmly in the middle of Earth Week, be sure to swing by SECS this week to support a sustainable planet! Here’s what our wonderful working groups are up to this week:

Fossil Free Addendum will continue reaching out about a subject matter hearing in the Illinois House of Representatives.

Action will be reflecting on past actions and taking a well-deserved break!

Media will be chalking sidewalks for Earth Day!

Education will be working on an upcoming IGNITE teach-in.

Circular Fashion Expo will wrap up their speech.

Solidarity Gardens will be planting and finishing sign painting.

Join us this Wednesday, April 23rd at 6:30 p.m. at the Channing Murray Foundation (1209 W. Oregon Street) for our next meeting.

🚨WAIT, THERE’S MORE!🚨

CFE Clothes Collection Begins!

If you have clothes you’re desperately looking to be free of during spring cleaning, look no further! The Circular Fashion Expo is collecting clothing for the clothing swap on May 3rd during the expo. You can bring these clothes to collection boxes at the PAR front lobby, the Channing Murray Foundation, and the ISR front lobby from today until Thursday, May 1st. This is a great way to keep fashion circular and turn your trash into someone else’s new treasure!

Fossil Free Friday!

This Friday, from 2-3pm at the Channing Murray Foundation, come to Fossil Free Friday to advance the divestment movement.

Come to Book Club!

Book Club will be meeting this Thursday from 6:30-7:30p.m. in the Women’s Resource Center and reading the short story ‘Sunshine State’ by Adam Flynn and Andrew Dana Hudson!

Show up on Wednesday! Go green or go HOME!

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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Come to Illini Lights Out!

Sign up to help turn off lights in campus buildings and save energy on May 2nd here!

Visit TORIIS and take action

TORIIS.earth is an organization that makes transparent the University of Illinois Systems investments and visualizes this data through an environmental lens. Throughout TORIIS, you can explore in depth the University of Illinois Systems’ investments, understand the scope and impact of its investments in the fossil fuel industry, and take action by signing the open letter requesting fossil fuel divestment from the University of Illinois.

Listen to the SECS talk
Listen here to our sustainability-focused podcast, the SECS talk! The most recent episode’s guest is Lina Avalos, a student at UIUC and an environmental justice advocate from the Southeast side of Chicago.

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Contact Us!
President — Rudy LaFave (he/him)
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Vice President — Claire Sullivan (she/her)
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Treasurer — Averhy Sanborn (she/her)
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Secretary — Julia San Miguel (she/her)
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Action Co-Coordinator — Trey McCallister (he/him)
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Action Co-Coordinator — Gabi DalSanto (she/they)
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Media Officer — Natalie Reed (she/her)
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Editor-in-Chief of the Green Observer – Michael Gergeni (he/him)
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Community Chair — Joya Weissman (she/her)
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Land Management Chair — Liam Henry (he/him)
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Outreach Coordinator — Izzy Wilder (she/her)
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer — Fatima Naveed (she/her)
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