Campus Progressives Meeting
9/19/01
- The next step in our quest to remove sweatshop clothing from the CSU school stores is to get CSULB to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) which is a really good resource for the school in general when it comes to labor and human rights issues.
- They would investigate, research, and proactively assure that our campus meets certain guidelines (like no sweatshop made clothing/merchandise is bought by our school and sold to students, fair wages are paid to workers, labor conditions are safe and favorable, etc.)
- Jim and Jeb are heading up this task, and are collaborating on a letter to submit to the school asking them to join the WRC.
- More of this will be discussed next week.
- We have an event scheduled for October 3rd at noon in the USU Small Auditorium called "What's Wrong With Plan Colombia? A forum on US involvement in Latin America." with speakers TBA.
- We are encouraging other campus organizations to attend and cosponsor, and we also hope to speak to class instructors and persuade them to tell their students to attend.
- Jeb is in the process of making a flyer and both Jim, Jeb, and Jeff have taken the initiative to find speakers.
- If you have any suggestions, please post them.
- We will also have tables the days before the event (Monday, October 1 and Tuesday October 2) and the schedule for those tables will be presented at the next meeting.
- We will discuss this more next week as well.
- Our website is up and running, yet always under construction. E-mail any suggestions to Andrew (by clicking on his name at the bottom of the main page of the site) as he is heading up the task of maintaining the site.
- Also, regarding our email lists, there have been problems and Sheila is trying to resolve them. (Please email her back if you are getting duplicate e-mails or have any related problems.)
- The California Faculty Association (CFA) is sponsoring a CSU System-wide teach-in at CSULB on October 17 in the University Theater regarding labor conditions of faculty on CSU campuses. The hope is to have as many students involved as possible to support and attend the event and to also show solidarity with the faculty union as they struggle for better terms. This affects us because their working conditions influence our learning conditions. This issue will be discussed at our next meeting in more depth, as it is complex and pressingly important. And please visit www.calfac.org for more info!
- Candace gave a workshop on consensus decision making and meeting methods.
- We hope to run the collective as egalitarian and non-hierarchial as possible, and the consensus method is the most effective way of doing this.
- It is very important that we maintain this procedure to ensure that everyone in the collective has an equal voice and an opportunity for their voice to be heard.
- We will possibly have more information on the subject in written form at our next meeting.
- We have a new office space in USU room 309 (the Cultural Center)! Feel free to stop by if one of us is in there and talk revolution, etc...
- If none of us are there, YOU (anyone) can go to the Maxson Center (USU 3rd Floor) and get the key to the Cultural Center by signing out and giving the recpetionist your CSULB ID card.
- We have computers with internet access and a desk, as well as propaganda, flyers, posters and poster making supplies, revolutionary literature, and SO MUCH MORE!
- We share the space currently with the International Students Association, The Vietnamese Student Association, and1 the Latino Student Union. And possibly soon, the Student Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal. (until then, they can use our desk if they want to, as anyone can check out the key).
- Please be responsible and accountable as you use the office space! Make it your new on-campus revolutionary headquarters until we can take over a bigger venue!
- Events:
- This Saturday (the 22nd) there is an anti-war demonstration at the Westwood Federal Building in Los Angeles (at Wilshire and Veteran, off the 405) at NOON, sponsored by the newly formed Stop the War Coalition (formed in response to the US Government's reaction to the events on 9/11). Sheila and another are organizing a large group to go, so please email her if you are interested in going.
- On October 13th, 9 AM: Running Down the Walls - a 5K run/walk through the trails of Griffith Park in L.A. It is designed to raise funds for the Anarchist Black Cross Federation's Warchest program, for the support of political prisoners.
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