On February 5, 2018 at 1:30:44 PM, Defend Aunti Frances ( defendauntifrances(a)protonmail.com) wrote: Dear friends of Aunti Frances, We write to you as our contacts at various organizations, most of which have already formally signed on as supporters of the campaign to keep Aunti Frances in her home. In the coming weeks we will be substantially turning up the pressure on Aunti’s landlords, the Morphys, with three primary actions that we ask your organizations to support. Next week, from Monday the 12th through Friday the 16th, we organizing a campaign to call the Morphys to remind them how much Aunti Frances means to our communities and to ask them politely but urgently not to evict her. The following week, on the morning of Wednesday February 21st (precise time TBD, likely morning), we are asking you to come out with everyone you can bring to the Hayward Hall of Justice on the day of Aunti’s pre-trial settlement hearing with the Morphys, to show public support for Aunti and encourage the landlords to drop the case. We will be having a festive event on the courthouse steps and will be facilitating rides to and from the Hayward BART. The week of February 26th, as you likely have already seen, is the week of Aunti Frances’s jury trial, for which we are calling for court support. We know that bringing folks out to Hayward on a weekday morning will be a challenge, which is why we would love your help! We’ll keep you posted with more details about the settlement hearing event and the court support. For calling the Morphys, the ask is as follows: - This week, we ask that each organization sign up on this spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yztfMOz-VYwVxZnLQT2zskGXhl2XvlvmHvTr1rmFZKo/edit?usp=sharing> for a date/time-slot, during which you will have at least 5 people make with scripted phone calls—one to Natalia, one to James and Alexandra. (You will notice, there are more slots in the morning—we want to start each day off strong, and then keep their phones buzzing throughout the day.) - Next Sunday night, we will send you an email that includes the call script as well as the time your organization signed up to make the calls. - You make the calls, after which you please indicate this by placing an “x” next to your organization’s name on the spreadsheet for each pair of calls made. - We believe it is likely that at some point the Morphys will disconnect their phones (or their voicemails get full)—if this has happened when you call, please send us an email ASAP. - If anything else comes up while calling, feel free to report. Please let us know which of these actions your organization is interested in be participating in, and if you have any questions. If we don’t hear from you over the next couple days, you will be followed up with directly by a volunteer from SURJ, who is supporting us in this work, or by a volunteer with Defend Aunti Frances. In Solidarity, Defend Aunti Frances