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Campus Progressive Meeting - Notes 30 March 2005, Elisa

CSULB CAMPUS PROGRESSIVES
Facilitator: Jeb
Notes: Elisa

Attendance: Abraham, Diana, Alex, Mike M., Sean, Nick, Nichole, Mike, Vince, Lamya, Yehuda, Debi, Allison, Michelle, Zahra, Uduak, Elisa, and my long-lost brother Al.

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1. Event: Blind Eye on Genocide - Apr. 7th
2. Event: Hip-Hop Tsunami Fundraiser - Apr. 28th
3. Event: Maria Guardado Film Screening - Apr. 19th
4. Campaign: Renew CSU
5. Update: Urgent Action - Rec Center
6. Update: T-Shirts, Pins, and other fun stuff
7. Discussions: Upward Bound, Venezuela, and our usual tangents...
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1. Blind Eye on Genocide
THURSDAY, April 7 at 7:30pm
At CSULB: Soroptomist House - on State University Drive across from the Health Center
FREE
Speakers visiting from all around the country will discuss the issue of genocide in historical and contemporary perspectives.

2. Hip-Hop Tsunami Fundraiser
THURSDAY, April 28 at 8:00pm
At CSULB: The Nugget - the restaurant at the food court just north of the Bookstore
FREE; donations welcome!
Fundraiser for tsunami victims featuring hip hop artists, performers and poets; spoken word artists from the CSULB Slam Team. Raffles with wonderful, perfectly legal prizes. Nick has pretty much organized this whole thing and nailed down every single detail, so if you see him around, bow down.

3. Maria Guardado Film Screening
TUESDAY, April 19 at 5:00pm [TENTATIVE]
Location to be announced
$3 suggested donation
"Maria Guardado," tells the story of a woman's life in El Salvador, dealing with violence, torture, and political uncertainty while U.S.-sponsored paramilitary squads terrorized the country. Will be joined by the film's director and Maria Guardado herself.
We're having some trouble reserving a location for the film screening through SLD. Lamya will contact Dr. Phillipose (who organized the Democracy 911 series) for possible locations. Elisa will look into reserving the Karl Anatol Center

4. Renew CSU
Diana and Alex from Renew CSU/Greenpeace spoke about getting the CSU campuses to support a clean energy policy. The financially-feasible plan includes incorporating solar panels on buildings, buying our electricity from energy grids of renewable sources, and ensuring all new constructions are designed to be energy-efficient.
Upcoming Renew CSU events
April 6: Next Wednesday at 11am at the Psychology Quad - Staging a call-in to Chancellor Reed's Office
May 6/7: Major convergence for energy conference; they're looking for CSU representatives to join in
May 10: Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach, where the CSU energy policy will be announced
More information at the Renew CSU Website: renewcsu.squarespace.com

5. Rec-Center Focus Groups Return
FRIDAY, April 1 at 4:00
ASI Senate Chambers USU-217
The "independent, non-biased" Brailsford & Dunleavy are returning to CSULB to give the results of their focus groups study. The meeting is open to all students (after all, they want us to know what's going on at our campus - they even scheduled it on a Friday after a holiday when they know tons of students will be on campus). Come show everyone that the students are not going to put up with rubber-stamping, misleading, and misuse of funds!

6. T-Shirts, Pins, Buttons
Debi has our organic cotton, non-sweatshop t-shirts ready for silk screening. Chris has offered to do the silk screening to put the logos on the shirts. He also offered to bring the stuff here so we can learn the process. Stay tuned for more details.
Mike M. has a whole slew of 2 1/4 and 3 inch pins/buttons ready to be pressed. If the Progressives want to offer up designs or slogans, we can make our own buttons. If you have any ideas, let us know.

7. Discussions
Regarding Upward Bound: it's getting completely destroyed through legislation (guess they weren't satisfied with cutting the funding year after year). The Progressives are aligned with AIDE (Action in Defense of Education), which has meetings Thursdays at 9:00pm in the Raza Resource Center (FO4-263). E-mail aide@riseup.net
Regarding Venezuela: For some reason, the U.S. wasn't happy that Venezuela wanted to establish an independent government and organize their oil industry on their own terms (How did America's oil end up underneath Venezuela, doggone it!?) Check out some of the e-mail sent by Jeb for more info.
Regarding other things: ...lots of nice, juicy stuff, but you have to come to the meeting for yourself to find out!

VIVA CESAR CHAVEZ!

-Elisa

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