Ensure Freedom of Speech & Assembly at ConCarolinas

We are here to support Jada Diaz and Luis Diaz's stance on the demands to dis-invite guests at ConCarolinas based on unfounded, unproven, and libelous stories by groups of internet trolls.

This is not a petition to support inviting guests who the con committee believes would be problems for the con or who do not seem, to the con committee, to be a "good fit" for the people who attend ConCarolinas. We who sign this petition are saying only that once an invitation has been issued, the guest invited should not be subsequently disinvited simply because someone else planning to attend the con will be uncomfortable in that guest's presence.

We believe that no one, left or right, should have an ex post facto veto right over who can and cannot be invited to a convention nor should the vocal minority, who do not work for the con in any capacity and are simply attending A PRIVATE EVENT of their OWN FREE WILL , be allowed to exert that kind of influence over a convention.

We believe that if ConCarolinas ejects Jada and Luis Diaz from the Convention Committee (the managing body of the convention) and reverses the position they have taken on the dis-invitation of guests, then no one who believes in freedom of expression should attend this convention ever again.

Some of us have attended ConCarolinas in the past, as either a ticket-buying attendee of the con or as an invited guest. There is provision when entering your signature below to indicate whether you have attended the convention in the past and if it was in the capacity of a guest or a ticket-buying attendee. There is also a provision to indicate whether or not you will ever attend ConCarolinas in future if Jada and Luis are removed from the Convention Committee.