Inspirational thought for the week...
"War is a deep desire for peace"
Dubya

Role- Nicole, Ellen, Morgan, Shaun, Mike, Tiffany, Adam

AGENDA
1.) Announcements
2.) Jim Watson Update
3.) Homecoming
4.) POCLAD
5.) Fair Trade Coffee

Announcements
-Mike went to the Not in Our NAme anti-war protest in NYC, said about 20,000 people showed up, thus being the biggest anti-war in demonstration since Vietnam
-Meet next Monday at 5:30 in the Hub to pass out CHANGE flyers
-Sunday Chalking @ 1:00 (Shaun and maybe Tiffany), meet at in front of Change room
-SOA workshop SUnday @4:00, Room 204 Student Center
-Boise Update, October 29th Protest @ 1:00 in front of MAC Center, then carpool to Cleveland in front of headquarters.

Jim Watson Update
Ellen talked to Jim Watson about the following four things:
1.) WRC (Kent monitoring organization) Update-this information will be provided on the list serve
2.) All factories KSU buys products from, will be on CHANGE website
3.) Trying to expand the code of conduct to athlethics, but needs approval of a busy Carol Carthwright, hopefully this will be done within two weeks
4.) Fair Trade t-shirts-KEnt state's bookstore (Follet) would not dish out enough dough to purchase these T-Shirts in surplus, so Equal Exchange is financing and warehousing them and Follet is buying them on demand.

Homecoming
-Thanks very much to Walter Davis for going to mandatory meeting for us!

-Homecoming is Oct. 19th, people interested in contributing to CHANGE's beautiful float can meet us at the Mantis Tuesday (Oct.15th) at 6:00 and Friday (Oct.18th) at 3:00. (Directions to the Mantis-follow 59/Main Street (the road with TAco Bell, and Wendy's, and all those nice chains on it) West (towards the downtown area). Once you are downtown, take a right on North WAter Street (there will be a Huntington Bank on the corner, turn right there), you will pass Sorboro's Italian Kitchen and the MAntis will be the building right after it on the right (It is connected to an ARt Gallery, the Mantis is the place on left).

-Please come to meeting next week with ideas on our float!

POCLAD (Corporation, Law, and Democracy)
WE have decieded to have POCLAD come to campus to speack on "Challenging the Empire Story and Creating our own". This topic will focus on issues such as globalization, WTO, and NAFTA. It looks as though they will come on Nov.19th (Tuesday), time and location is yet to be decieded.
-Morgan has volunteered to go to USS to get the appropriate allocations for this event

Fair Trade Coffee
The following measures were done this week in CHANGE'S effort to bring fair trade coffee to Kent:
1.) Ellen has purchased Santiago's Story from Global Exchange to be viewed next week by CHANGE.
2.) Nicloe is waiting for an organization package and a video, and did some research on colleges in W.Virgina and Penns. that have been somewhat successful in fair trade compromises with universities (although the compromise often involed Starbucks)
3.) CHANGE members meet in the library to discuss/find info on fair trade, put together a flyer for RA's to consider CHANGE for programs, and found websites on fair trade coffee.
4.) Mike talked to a co-op about purchasing coffee and found out that their coffee would be, he believes, 6.50/lb for the cheapest brand. This is middle-of-the road priced but good quality.
5.) Shaun contacted Andrea Spandonis. She told him that the companies KSU uses is Starbucks, Seatle's Best, and General Mills. She also said that she has been working with someone (Jess?) for about a year on fair trade coffee, and that indeed, Starbucks is considered KSU's fair trade coffee.

Please continue work on fair trade, including research and what we as a group want out of fair trade.

NExt week's agenda
-fair trade, posssible CHANGE potluck, Homecoming