Campus Progressives Meeting
9/26/01
- Facilitator(s) - Candace K. and Jeff H.
Notes - Bjorn K.
Care (vibes) - Sheila K.
Time - Connie P.
- There will be no meeting next week - instead, go to our Teach-in for Plan Columbia instead. Same time (Noon) as the meeting would be, different location - USU Small Auditorium.
- The attendance was great this meeting, we had more people than we did seats!
- Plan Colombia Teach-in:
- Some of the speakers backed out. There is one confirmed speaker and another
potential one from the ISO.
- Jeb will facilitate the Teach-in.
- There will be Tables Monday and Tuesday. The Tuesday table is in desperate need of people. Please make time for the table on Tuesday if you can.
- Jim will be contacting the Press Telegram and the Forty-niner.
- Teacher Teach-in October 17 in the University Theater:
- The Teach-in will make students aware of what is happening inside the CSU system. It is supposed to build cooperation between teachers and students. The teach-in will be an open forum of discussion + speakers. It will go over the contract that is in limbo and how uncooperatively the CSU is dealing with it.
- The chancellor threatened the union considering the teach-in as a strike.
- Sweatshop Action:
- We are pressuring the school to join the WRC. Jim wrote a letter (we don’t know to whom yet). The due date for the letter will be within the week. Jim has a meeting with President Maxson on Monday.
- We also need more endorsements from other student organizations. Help Jim contact the other 200 clubs on campus for endorsements.
- The ultimate goal is to have all CSUs join WRC.
- Sheila might have friends from Students Against Sweatshops come to one of our meetings.
- Maybe we'll organize a teach-in for the sweatshops after all the other teach-ins.
- Maybe members of our club could facilitate small discussion groups every noon for students to come talk about politics. (location?)
- Feedback on Consensus: Raise your hand to talk! The Hand Signal is snapping fingers.
- There was a decision made to support the Teach Teach-in.
- LOTS OF EVENTS:
- Anti-War demonstration at Westwood Federal Buildings. Meet at Sheila’s house if you want to go. The IAC is behind the demonstration and it is supposed to be big, about 1000. Someone bring a CSULB sign to connect with other schools.
- Friday, September 28, 7 AM meeting. Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace. 1st Baptist Church - 8th and Westmoreland (1 block south of Wilshire Blvd., 1 block east of Vermont)
- Friday, September 28, 6:30 PM. Community Candlelight Vigil. Corner of First and Alameda Streets - In Little Tokyo (Please bring your own candles).
- Sponsored by:
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress- (323) 680-3484
Japanese American Citizens League- (213) 626-4471
Little Tokyo Service Center CDC
- Friday, September 28, 6:30 PM. Planning meeting focusing on student actions on various campuses which shall then join: 7:30 PM - Stop the War Coalition (i.e., group which sponsored 9-22-01 Westwood Fed. Blvd. rally) meeting Echo Park United Methodist Church, 1226 N. Alvarado St. (1 block N of Sunset Blvd.)
- Saturday, September 29th Two Large Events are planned for LA:
- Downtown at 10 AM to 2 PM
March and Rally
Assemble at Olympic & Broadway
- Westwood Federal Building 2 PM
March and Rally
Assemble at Wilshire & Veteran
- Next Monday at 8 PM in the Carpenter Center Mike Farrell (from MASH) will speak about the Death Penalty. IT'S FREE.
- Tuesday, October 2
Teach-in UCLA
For more info:
Brett Featherstone
Student Coalition Against the War
blnkcnvs@ucla.edu
- Sunday, October 7
National Day of Action for Peace
The National Coalition for Peace and Justice, representing the nation's largest peace organizations, asks its member groups and networks to organize a national day of action for peace on October 7 in local communities across the country. The day follows the lead of people in New York City who have been working since the tragic events of September 11 to plan anti-war activities.
Members of the NCPJ Steering Committee include the American Friends Service Committee, Black Radical Congress, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Global Exchange, Pax Christi, Peace Action, Shundahai Network, SOA Watch, War Resisters League, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
- Tuesday, October 9, 2 PM to 4 PM
Los Angeles County Dept. of Health
313 N. Figueroa Street, Auditorium (corner of Temple)
Panel to promote tolerance:
Rabbi Steven Jacobs, Temple Kol Tikvan
Samal Al-Marayati, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Hamid Kahn, South Asian Network
Robin Toma, L.A. County Human Relations Commission
Free of charge.
Office of Diversity Programs (213) 240-7710
- 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.
- Saturday, October 13, 1 PM
Santa Monica Beach (at Oceab Park Blvd.)
Be part of a Human Peace Symbol
Sponsored by Agape International Spiritual Center (310) 392-8558
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