Living Wage Campaign
-Coalition with Portage County Green Party
-Living wage for municipal and contract workers
Possible Speakers This Year
-Michael Moore; October;
-Howard Zinn
-Barbara E.
-Susan Hagan
-John Sweeney
-must find out about allocations process
-make sure no events are scheduled at the same time of speakers
-what about asking Department heads for money?
Sodexho Mariott Services
-coming to Kent State
-when they come jobs will go
-need to tell workers
-possible Anti-racist Action/CHANGE coalition
-Oberlin successfully kicked them out
Blastoff Table
-Sunday August 26 5:15-9pm
-table reserved for back to school blastoff
-what do we want on table?
-Megan working on banner for CHANGE
-5 o’clock shift come early for set up
-Info about World Bank/IMF protest
IMF/World Bank
-September 28 Washington DC
-Northeast Ohio Radical Action Network meeting Monday 7pm August 20
-mobilize participation in protests
-contact list for people attending march
-listserve for NEO-RAN (neo-ran-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to be put on it)
Sweat free update-Code of Conduct
-Code of Conduct completed. Available online at www.kent.edu/fairworking
-fair trade rack university bookstore
-always some sweatshop goods getting in
-Equal Exchange/KSU fair trade partnership
-possible delegation to go to Mexico this year
Retreat Update
-revised mission statement
-revised meeting structure
Workshops
-Mike to teach HTML to activists
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