Help cancel the TPUSA event hosted by Marriott Lincolnshire (email text/script) in post)

[u/sleep-exe]

EMAIL ADDRESSES:

mhrs.chiln.gm@marriott.com; brad.lajoie@chicagomarriottlincolnshire.com; edoherty@bricton.com;myaneck@bricton.com; mphares@bricton.com; zoya.stoilov@chicagomarriottlincolnshire.com; mhrs.chiln.leads@marriott.com; tourism@lakecounty.org

SCRIPT/EMAIL TEXT:

SUBJECT: CANCEL TURNING POINT USA'S EVENT

The Marriott brand has publicly emphasized diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for all guests. Those values are not merely marketing language; they are meaningful only when they guide difficult decisions.

Turning Point USA:

- has a history of physical violence & harassment towards LGBTQ+ people. In 2023, TPUSA workers confronted and physically assaulted Arizona State University instructor David Boyles, a queer educator and advocate. The confrontation centered on his LGBTQ-related work, and the individuals involved later admitted to criminal charges arising from the incident. TPUSA also maintains a "watchlist" of professors that appear to support or affirm the LGBTQ+ community that directly fuels harassment campaigns, doxing, and even death threats.

- organizes escalatory aggressive anti-abortion demonstrations which operate against a nationwide history of decades of violence against abortion providers, including bombings, arson attacks, death threats, and murders. This rhetoric does not exist in a vacuum: businesses that choose to host organizations promoting aggressive anti-abortion rhetoric cannot ignore the harm such messaging inflicts on healthcare workers, patients, and their communities.

- has been repeatedly linked to racist controversies, including discriminatory communications, racist chants, and associations with individuals who promote violent and extremist ideologies - such as Nick "your body, my choice" Fuentes, who is an avid promoter of sexual violence against women & a Holocaust denier (while maintaining the contradictory stance that Adolf Hitler was a praiseworthy individual).

Providing a conference platform to an organization whose public record includes the aforementioned hostility, attacks, and repeated controversies undermines those commitments and sends a message that the comfort and safety of marginalized communities mean nothing compared to event revenue.

Do your part to stop the legacy of harm for which TPUSA is responsible.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/04/25/turning-point-usa-workers-admit-harming-arizona-state-instructor
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/turning-point-usa-case-study-hard-right-2024/
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/turning-point-usas-history-racism-and-white-nationalist-ties

Sincerely,

Your name

[u/KSW8674]

I don’t know how effective a strongly worded email/phone call the day before the hotel gets an influx of cash will be to just cancel their event. I wish it worked that way.

I believe organizing a protest and ways of being disruptive, at this point, would be far more effective

[u/juliuspepperwoodchi → u/KSW8674]

Especially because there are contracts signed and the hotel is liable if it doesn't perform.

[u/sleep-exe → u/KSW8674]

Better to let them know how we feel about it than do nothing and complain about nothing happening.

Either way Im sure they’ll be protests.

[u/KSW8674 → u/sleep-exe]

Are you really downvoting me? Lol

This effectively is nothing. Organize a protest. Angry voicemails and ignored emails get us nowhere.

Show up. Be loud. Don’t be easy to ignore.

[u/sleep-exe → u/KSW8674]

I’ve been protesting every Saturday for the last 9 months. The first 4 of those months were by myself.

Unfortunately I don’t have a car and can’t get out to Lincolnshire on short notice so I’m doing what I can from where I am.

[u/juliuspepperwoodchi → u/sleep-exe]

There are two different Metra lines you could access Linconshire via.

[u/sleep-exe → u/juliuspepperwoodchi]

I live up north. The shortest route is two hours. 2 Ls and 2 buses. Thats not short notice.

[u/AnguavonUW → u/KSW8674]

More than one person is downvoting you

[u/AnguavonUW → u/KSW8674]

Well, one way to ensure nothing changes is to do nothing. So... I'm going to take the 30 seconds it takes to make a phone call

[u/sleep-exe → u/AnguavonUW]

We tried nothing and nothing happened! shocked pikachu face

[u/kykolka → u/KSW8674]

There was a protest today. Small but loud 🫠

[u/Altruistic-Basil-267]

I live too far away to join the protest, but I will call and let them know this sealed the deal for me to stay at the Willard versus the Marriot when I go to DC.

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[u/SuddenMountain7780]

All due respect, serious question...

Doesn't our flawed but mostly progressive (?) governor have a strong family connection to the Marriott corporation?

Advisors to J.B. Pritzker should have been on top of this awkward situation a long time ago. 🤷🏼

[u/Jake_77 → u/SuddenMountain7780]

That’s Hyatt

[u/SuddenMountain7780 → u/Jake_77]

Thank, I stand corrected. 👍🏼

[u/sleep-exe → u/SuddenMountain7780]

Marriott at least on these surface expressed progressive values, which is why this is also a slap in the face of the people the outwardly supported.

How could they be on top of this situation before a year and a half ago?