We the undersigned, members of the Twin Cities community, write to state our support for the striking canvass workers at Sisters’ Camelot; and in order to hold the organization’s decision-making collective accountable to the community, we urge them to do what is right and negotiate with the union. We recognize that the canvassers have Sisters’ Camelot’s best interest in mind and support their decision to unionize; workers everywhere have the right to organize their workplace. Doing so is not an attack on the collective, the organization or its mission. As a community, we are aware that the canvassers of Sisters’ Camelot must be recognized as an organized union. We feel this recognition is vital to progressive change for Sisters’ Camelot.

We support and encourage an open negotiation in good faith between the collective and the Canvassers Union. We insist that all personal matters be put aside; as a community of onlookers, we are aware of the personal issues involved and can see that is it having a negative impact on the organization’s mission. By refusing to negotiate with the canvass union and then firing a union worker, it has become clear that the collective management of Sisters’ Camelot are not allowing the organization to move forward. We recognize that canvassers are the medium which Sisters’ Camelot uses to communicate with the wider world and cannot see a future for Sisters’ Camelot without them.

We recognize that Sisters’ Camelot’s programming represents a spirit of unconditional compassion and acceptance to the community in which it serves; it represents community outreach and support; it represents forward-thinking activism that decreases waste and hunger. An organization like this is scarce, and we are aware it cannot be created or destroyed overnight. As a community, we stand behind the Sisters’ Camelot Canvass Union and feel that the demands and actions of the canvassers are in the spirit of Sisters’ Camelot’s mission and values. We wish to stand together, and ask that Sisters’ Camelot continues living up to these values by negotiating, compromising, re-hiring and re-evaluating what a community truly means.

As a community, we urge the following action:

1) Re-hiring the fired union worker: these actions have no place in the resolution of a labor dispute.

2) Negotiate in good faith with the canvassers of Sisters’ Camelot: so that they can end the strike and continue supporting its mission of “feeding the hungry and inspiring the world.”

We sign this document, as a community, to re-iterate that we too stand by Sisters’ Camelot and its mission statement and hope to see it thrive for years to come.

To add your name to the list of supporters, email SistersCamelotCanvassUnion@gmail.com with the name you would like to be listed as. Please include any title you’d like to see alongside your name; and if you’re not from the Twin Cities, please let us know where you’re from. Thank you!

Nicole Larson (author)

Travis Erickson

Jake Bell

Arella Vargas

Jim McGuire

Heidi Hammond

Jason Evans

Quinn Josiah

Linda Leighton

David Sundeen

David Vavreck

Sam Adams

Jake Schlagel

April Streich

Andy Swenson

Claire Luger

Shawn Howard

Mike Wilklow

David Boehnke

Ryan Carey

Syndicalist (Mike Harris)

Meg Kosowski

Daniel Davis

Eugene Lerner

Christopher Simmerman

Brandon Lentz

Anne Benson

Betty Tisel

Erik Davis

Leah Bowe

Hallie Wallace

Kieran Knutson

Sam Green

Zoe Christianson

James Duke

Liberte Locke, Starbucks Union, NYC

Peter Rachleff

Nikolaus Maier

Justin Leaming

Mike L., Wobbly and Pizza Hut worker

Michele Rockne

حسن يحيى (Hassan Yahya Patterson)

Scott Barnard

Charngchi Way, Boston, MA

Monty Flinsch

Maxime Berclaz

Sam Richards, LNJ Radio Network

Micah Buckley-Farlee

Emily Wilson-Barnard

Thomas Henry, UFCW

Neil Youmans

Mark Cunningham, Halifax NS, Canada

Josh Deeds, Columbus, OH

Lou Rinaldi, Providence RI

Craig Drehmel

Brian Romain

Emiliano Silva

Tony Shephard, UK

Corrina McCarron

Nathan Paulsen

Wild Rose Collective, Iowa City, IA

Michael Filkins

Leroy L. Duncan

Juan Conatz

Joe Giwoyna

Funky K

Nate Hawthorne

Aaron Kocher

Nick S., Tampa, FL IWW

Morgan Brannigan, Newry, Ireland

Katie Reinert

Edwin Rollins, St. Louis, MO

Ben Atterbery

Scott Nappalos

Rhys Harrison, UK

Matt Meister, Akron, OH

Ramona, libcom.org collective, UK

Derek Johnson, Tampa, FL IWW

Jayson Bletcher, Food and Retail Workers United I.U. 460

Steve Ongerth

Ryan Smith

Lynn O’Brian

Steven Holmes

Robert Wood, UAW Local 2865

Anny Cullum, Bristol, UK

Anneke Haku

Morgan Soderberg

Ben Tighe

Mary F. Larson

Susannah McCarthy

Maximilian Hanson

John Drucker

Daniel DeVoe

Christina Wells

Elizabeth Murray

Amy Smith

Wayne Bailey

Kristine Smith

Damian Garner

Devin Williams

Rhys Williams

Gabrielle Morris

Peter Simmons

Mary Thurow

John Thurow

Marianne Houle

Richard Chanty

Susan Phillips

Curtis Albrecht

Philip Mahlstadt

Lindsey Stadsklev

Stefanie Steele

Angela Brewer

Eric Borlaug

Toddie Tastad

Sharon Larsen, Gainesville, FL

Professor Noam Chomsky, Cambridge, MA

Binyamin Alan, Montana

Jim Evangelista

Jim Davis, Billings, Montana

Gaël Morin, Montréal, Canada

Jenny Siege

FW Richard Stephenson, Wichita IWW

David Feldmann, St. Louis IWW

James Hallberg, Viroqua, WI

Brian L. Chaffin, AFSCME Local 151

Debbra Myers

Adam Weaver

Stephen D’Arcy, London, ON

Will Reid, London, ON

Jeff Jones

Joel Gosse, Madison, WI

George M. Anthony

Kris Humbird, Portland, OR

Jim Dixon

Frank Kennett

Anthony Dembowski, IWW, Cleveland OH

Ant Ince, Komoro, Japan

Holly Krig

Marty Scire, Baltimore IWW

Gray, Providence, RI

James Schmidt

Sean Carleton, IWW, London, UK

Beth Shapiro

Gayge Operaista, New Haven, CT

Roger B., Sarasota, FL

Hardy Coleman

Frank Johnson

Gary Gagner

Leila Labyad

William Greger

William Mathews

Timothy J. Leach

Jennette Flynn

Sean Maguire

AC, Baltimore IWW

Joshua Keogh, Baltimore IWW

Kenneth Yate, Richmond, VA IWW

J. Robbie Robson, Jimmy John’s Workers Union

Elliot Hughes

Sarah Sosa, AFSCME Local 2822

Erik Forman, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Eric Fink, Greensboro, NC IWW

Andy Larson, Richfield, MN

Marc J. Mancini, Pittsburgh, PA -UFCW, IWW

Joe Golowka, IWW member

Eli Meyerhoff

Deirdre Cunningham

AFSCME Local 3800

AFSCME Local 2822

Dek Keenan, Edinburgh, Scotland

Jessica Hayssen

Eleonore Wesserle

Dean Ayotte, IWW, Bristol (UK)

AFSCME Council 5

Albuquerque IWW

Claire Thomas

John Kalwaic

Juan Arana

ATU Local 1005

Patrick Western, West Virginia

Aubrey Richard Wanliss-Orlebar, Paris, France

Matt Hartschloss, Leeds, UK

Dean Zitzewitz, Chicago, IL

Chanda Erickson, New Braunfels, Texas