<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear H-PAD supporters,</div><div><br></div><div>We are honored that our fellow historian Paul Ortiz will lead this online forum, so we can all start planning to organize our own campuses.  The Right is coming for all of us, and there are lessons to be learned!  <b>Please forward to everyone you know who is ready to fight.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Van Gosse and Margaret Power, for H-PAD<br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="margin-left:45.9pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none"><tbody><tr><td width="842" valign="top" style="width:504.9pt;border:1.5pt double windowtext;padding:0in 5.4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:28pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fighting the Right:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:28pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lessons From Florida</span></b><span style="font-size:36pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><br><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_lfrlwip00" alt="image.png" width="364" height="364" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><br><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:4pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An Online Forum with Paul Ort</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">iz</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:2pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:2pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">President, United Faculty of Florida, University of Florida</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:2pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(FEA/NEA/AFT/AFL-CIO)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Paul Ortiz and his union are on the frontlines of the current culture wars.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Education on all levels, and the rights of much of the state’s population, are under attack by forces led by Governor Ron DeSantis. The governor’s “Anti-Wokeness” campaign threatens to eviscerate honest teaching of United States history and force people of color, the trans and LGBTQ+ communities, and working people in general to the margins of society. Resistance to this campaign is growing, and at the center of the fight is the United Faculty of Florida and its allies. Paul Ortiz, a historian at the University of Florida and veteran of social justice movements, is a key leader in this resistance.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001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