Bottom Liner for November-Lauren
ANNOUNCEMENTS
^Sherman Alexe has hurt himself. He will reschedule next semester to speak.
^Open Forum Tuesday Nov. 19 from 5:30-7:30 in room 204. There will be food.
^Tonight from 8-12am. ARA is hosting Bombs There, Brutality Here- a night of music, art and poetry in the Rathskellar.
AGENDA
Davis Besse
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Ellen has created an info packet for people planning on working the lemonade stand. Points that were left out about jobs: 780 people currently work at the Davis Besse plant. These 780 people would be the first to be killed if the plant had a melt down or other catastrophe. Nuclear power plants are only meant to last for 20-25 year; job loss would occur soon anyways. The plant would take ten years to close down, some people would continue to have a job for those ten years. Those wanting to close the plant are looking into alternatives for the plant, so some jobs may be saved.
The lemonade stand is being planned from 11-3 on Nov. 26, Tuesday. We are hoping to have it in Bowman. If you can offer some time to work the table please do so.
Megan will take care of talking to university police and setting up the table.
Megan has Dixie cups for the lemonade.
Ellen will post the tentative postcard on the listserv. We will have the opportunity to make comments from the listserv. Next week Ellen will bring the postcards to the meeting.
Ellen will buy the countrytime lemonade.
Ellen is also going to get the outfits and make the flyers.
Mike and Ellen are going to contact the Greens to see if they would help with the campaign and the lemonade stand.
Nicole will bring a 5 gallon jug to put the lemonade in.
Next week we will figure out who and when for the table. We will also have a pop quiz about Davis Besse.
Fair Trade Coffee
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Suggestions for the campaign:
^Packet of information and information about CHANGE for the administration (A).
^Use comment cards from the cafeteria to let the administration know we want Fair Trade(A&E).
^Sign up for a display case to advertise Fair Trade(A&E).
^Table Tents(A&E)
^Have Morgan send out another letter for next semester to the RAs about CHANGE doing a workshop about fair trade coffee at prime time for program planning(A&E).
^Coffee tasting next semester and comment cards for people to fill out. Start in Bowman and move from location to location(A&E).
There is no update on the library situation.
Working Groups
Administration(A)- Shaun, Megan
Action/education(A&E)- everyone else
Administration
-The meeting to speak with Andrea was put on hold due to lack of knowledge on campus. Will be rescheduled for next semester.
Talking points
Lauren and Ellen will work on creating a sheet of talking points. They will bring it to the next meeting for discussion.
Topics for talking points: Facts, definitions, examples, what makes fair trade fair? what makes shade grown and organic shade grown and organic? Anti- fair trade and Why?
Sources to use: Global exchange packet, George from the Natural Foods Co-op, and Linda Smithers- owner of Susan's and staunch anti-fair trade coffee. Nicole will get contact info and see if she would even be willing to talk about why she thinks fair trade coffee is bunk.
Open Forum
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*Open student forum Tuesday, Nov. 19 from 5:30-7:30 in rm. 204.
Lauren will ask a question concerning fair trade coffee at the student forum tomorrow.
Ellen will be forced to go to the forum.
NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA
Report from Open Forum
Davis Besse-Quiz
Fair Trade Coffee
Talking points
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