SFU SOCA Message to followers and the community

​Dear SOCA Followers and SFU Community,
It is with sadness that the SFU Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry (SOCA) announces that after many rounds of negotiations with the SFSS over the past year, we are contacting our followers, members and community for support after being neglected by the SFSS Board of Directors. It is heartbreaking, sad and outright unempathetic to the plight of the Black Community that SFU SOCA represents.
SOCA has operated the Black Community Services Centre located in the Rotunda since 1997. This center has been at the heart of our operations and plays a critical part in supporting our ability to provide a home to a continuously marginalized group at the university. 
The SFSS is currently building a new Student Union Building (SUB), and will be giving up its lease on the Rotunda once the SUB is completed. This means that SOCA will need a new home to continue our awesome work of supporting marginalized communities and developing student life on campus.
The action of the SFSS evicting a Black Students Group who have been operating in the TC317 The Black Community Services Centre in the Rotunda for 24 years is a textbook example of institutionalized racism against communities of colour, where new developments render the most marginalized groups homeless.
Here is how you can help SOCA:
1. SHARE THIS POST TO RAISE AWARENESS
2. USE THE HASHTAG #SAVESOCA AND #BLACKSPACESMATTER. MENTION @SFSS1 and @SFU.
3. SIGN THE PETITION HERE: 
https://www.change.org/p/simon-fraser-student-society-stan…/
Come to the Black Community Service Centre in the Rotunda or email [email protected] to get more information on how to #savesoca.