FIRST MEETING OF THE SEMESTER
Treasury Report:
no interest accrued, as it is in a non-interest bearing account, so balance is $418.21, as of 08/13/01.
AGENDA FOLLOWS ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Contract for Renewal for Registered Organizations -
- Black Squirrel Fesival
- Anti - Racist Action (ARA) meets every Tuesday at 8:30pm in room 319
- Onward! anarchist paper - $1 (cheap!)
- Columbia - corporate - look at notebook
- october 12-14 - cleveland
- office 229 second floor student center is where
we keep our CHANGE resources
- workshop on consensus decision-making, ways to work as a group better will soon be available
- this wednesday, 0905, ksu student center, 7pm,
- IRTF
AGENDA
living wage campaign update -see mike pesa
IMF/WB - (internat'l monetary fund/world bank)
Sodexho-Marriott
Code of Conduct
- code completed
BRAINSTORM
meeting adjourned/deferred to working groups
agenda item next meeting:
$12 to Mike P. for Kent Living Wage Coalition for book
five people signed up - DONE
Here are the times that need to be filled:
Friday, September 17th
9:10 AM to 12:10 PM
2:00 PM to 4:15 PM
Please email the listserv with the times you can commit to. If you've never been directly involved with CHANGE, now's the time to start! We don't need experts, we just need people to sit at a table and refer people to the information on the fliers.
protest Star Wars Missile defense system
see megan to sign up
-if you want to be on the key list, please see megan
northeast ohio radical action network (NEORAN) meeting
- longterm network to coordinate activist efforts
-transporting/preparing people for IMF/World Bank protests in DC (Sept 28)
- see Walter Davis or Mike P
- economic justice meeting --holiday shopping with sweatshop awareness
- possibly partner with Late Night Christian Fellowship
- start lwc on campus because ksu employees are not making justifiable wages.
- met over summer with portage county green party, council member bill schultz, and others
- city wide (and university) campaign because more than ksu workers and council support
- want public - 2 things happening so far:
- gathering research
- process of coalition building; need people and organization to commit
- meeting monday sept 17 at 630pm, 3rd floor of Student Center
- lori fuller, bill schultz, arlene on research committee
- CHANGE needs to reach out to other groups
- flyers and endorsement forms available in BOX 38 in Lost Leaders Lounge, next to the Governance Chambers and near the credit union
- good for all groups, even those that cannot be actively involved, but support living wages
- 3 Pillars of Living Wage Campaign:
- labor, community, religious
- NEO-RAN and ARA plan to organize for people to go
- need to continue with mass protest to educate and inform what world bank and IMF really stand for
- important to counter attempts to shut us down
- bus will leave for washington dc friday Sept 28 and return sunday Sept 30 for about $40; ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE
- workshops are saturday september 22
- bad employers involved in prison complexes are who KSU has outsourced food services to
- movement to protest beginning here; already begun other places (recently booted off of Oberlin)
- see mike or megan to be assigned research tasks
- ACTION TO TAKE - CONTACT MEGAN OR MIKE
- CHANGE position created
- to rotate each semester
- to press jim watson to see if code is followed
- educate on sweatshops
- must have person next week to fill this position
- megan has agreed to be temp (thanks, Megan!)
- can get to it by CHANGE website (under Announcements, "Final Code of Conduct is Now Online"
-working groups meeting after adjournment and reporting at the ANNOUNCEMENTS of the next meeting.
should CHANGE subscribe to Onward! at $1 an issue
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