Office Person- Nicole (YEAH!)
Notetaker-Megan (yeah)
Treasurer- ?
Bottomliner- Adrian (YEAH!)
Code of Conduct Bottomliner-?
Webmaster- Mike (YEAH!)
Timekeeper- Mike (YEAH!)
Welcome Shawn, Daniel, and Christa, Casey, Amy, and Chandler!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
~On Sept 15th, Sunday, "Guns N' Greed" will be shown in room 309 of the KSC.
It is a video about the school of Americas, horrors waged in Latin America and
the movement to close down the school. All are welcome.
~On September 11th in the KSC plaza at 11:00am Kent State Anti-War Committee will be commemorating the lives lost in New York on September 11th, 2001 as well as the lives lost around the world because of international crimes against humanity. At the same time our grief is not a cry for war. The procession will begin in the plaza and end in a funeral at the procession.
At 5:30 at the Kent Stark Campus there will be a discussion about September 11th. It will be held in the KSU library.
There will be a candle light vigil at 8:00pm at the MACC on September 10th.
~7,000 Nike Indonesian workers have lost their jobs in Tangerang, Indonesia. We are asking you to write a letter to Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, asking him to reinstate the employees along with paying living wages and providing healthy working conditions. His address can be found at nikewages.org
~Dr. Bronner will be coming either the 1st Wednesday and Thursday or the 2nd Wednesday and Thursday of November. He will give workshops one day and do something else the next day.
AGENDA
a)Listserv
b)Code of Conduct
c)Bessie Davis Power plant
d)Consensus
Listserv
Listservs can be overwhelming with repetitious emails and frequent messages.
We hope to keep CHANGE's listserv to a minimum for the sanity of all on the
list.
Code of Conduct
Two years ago Pat Coy's nonviolence: Theory and Practice class took on the
project of getting the university to adopt a code of conduct for the clothing
produced in the bookstore. This code outlines the desire of the university to
buy products produced by workers in safe working environments with sustainable
wages. The code can be found on CHANGE's website www.kentchange.org. A code
was adopted and a monitoring group was hired, Worker's Rights Consortium, to
look after the producers of the products. CHANGE has now taken on the task to
check up on the administration to see the results of the code. This semester
we will continue to check in and be updated on the progress made because of
the code.
Every year at the beginning of the spring semester a committee is to be formed to reviewed the findings of the monitoring group and to revise the code if need be. There has been some difficulty in getting the committee to meet, it is nine months since the committee is supposed to have met. We have decided to try and get a meeting with Jim Watson, either have him come to the next CHANGE meeting or have Ellen and Shawn meet with him on Friday. Megan will call and make the appointment. If we are unsuccessful in getting a meeting time Megan or the new bottomliner will call Jim's secretary, Shannon, to schedule a time the committee will meet.
Davis Bessie
Amy and Ellen from Ohio Citizen Action came to speak to CHANGE about taking
this on as a possible campaign. Davis Bessie is a nuclear power plant that
was shut down because it was extremely close to a nuclear catastrophe. In
addition the football size hole in the reactor head many other violations were
found due to negligence. OCA wants to keep this power plant from reopening
with nuclear power. KSU's role in this project would be to put pressure on
Carol Cartwright to get her to say the plant should be closed. Carol is a
board member of First Energy, the owners of Davis Bessie. Amy will provide
more information for the group at the next meeting. CHANGE will decide
whether it will take on the campaign at the next meeting.
Consensus
Consensus is the deciding process CHANGE uses. It is a method where
everyone's ideas, thoughts and feeling are taken into account when the group
is making a decision. The group works together to have a solution that
everyone can live with. It differs from voting in that minorities do not lose
their voice. It is important in meetings to make sure all are included in
conversations and decision making. We don't want some to talk too little and
others to talk too much. We all have a role in the decision making.
FOR NEXT WEEK: Fair Trade Coffee, Davis Bessie
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