CAN WIDE CALL MINUTES
Chris Schwartz
CAN Wide Call Minutes 4-15-2007
Agenda Item One
Shout out from chapters on the call:
Cornell
Small but hardcore group, tow big rallies in march one on Campus and one in the community (Ithica) rest of the semester will focus on supporting the GI Resistance movement, working with community to raise money and spread awareness for GI resistance efforts, large downtown concert to raise 10,000
Seattle Central Community College
Brd new, just a month old, currently building for city-wide walkout on April 18th, IVAW with other groups and unions will be holding a protest at veterans Seattle hospital, campus is focusing on having Veterans speak,president of IVAW is a student
University of Northern Iowa
Large Make-Hip-Hop not war, very diverse, many NE w young people, now doing twice monthly antiwar demonstrations. University of Iowa had a 500 person March on March 20th, walkout planned for May First
St. Micheal's College Vermont
4th anniversary of war, 150-200 students participated in a Die-in, April 26th Lex Roberts, author of john Hopkins study, will be putting out black flags to mark the dead.
Rutgers
March 20th 400 student person walkout, marched to a recruiting station, shut down a part of the interstate, got Imus fireed, protest of Hilary Clinton, Columbia had walk out with 350 students, College of NE w Jersey is bringing Howard Zinn to speak
Emerson in Boston
panel with Howard Zinn, tow Iraq veteran, and a war tax resister, Tuffs walk out on March 19th, March 24th large city wide march with tens of thousands.
UVM
Burlington held a state wide protest with lost of IVAW people speak, afterwards they had a great talk with antiwar students from across the state, lots of participation with St. Micheal's and others to put on a CAN state wide chapter.
Champagne Urban Ill
January
protest, March protest, local protest on
MArch 15th was good size, working on
building the chapter bringing together all
the antiwar activities into one umbrella under CAN, memorial
on the quad with flags of the dead teamed
with College Dems
got them to focus on deaths of Iraqis and
U.S,
Berkeley
Planing of big screening of Sir no Sir, Hip-Hop not war event canceled due to labor strike,
City College San Francisco
panel discussion with president of IVAW, and veteran from campus,
University of Maryland
week of action leading up to march 17th that Wendseday they had a 300 person rally and march to admin building, panel called students and soldiers unite, Vietnam vet, two IVAW speakers, next week film screening of Independent Media in a time of War, end of the year with operation first casualty with IVAW will set-up check points that will simulate what it is like in Iraq, leading up to a panel discussion of troops out now vs troops out later.
SF State
labor battle was recently resolved, the war at home and abroad connecting immigration, jails, etc,, to the war, solid attendence at meetings
UC Austin Texas
Chuck D is going to do a lecture at UAT so they need to do a fund raiser
AGENDA ITEM TWO
Wear Black Armbands on May 1st
Proposed by: Jerome Parker-O'Grady-Vermont, Jake Thorn-Cali
PASSED PLEASE PROMOTE
Anti-war/pro-worker/pro-immigrant solidarity
Why wear a black armband on May 1st?
-May 1st is the 4th anniversary of Bush's speech in front of the "Mission Accomplished" banner.
-May 1st is May Day, a holiday that celebrates the working class who endure the brunt of the burden of war.
-May 1st (May Day) also recognizes the rights of immigrants who suffer under the same systemic racism that is present in current American war policy.
End the war, end racism, support all workers.
AGENDA ITEM THREE-
CAN POINT PEOPLE FOR EACH STATE
Chris Schwartz at University of Northern Iowa.
Modified Resolution
Ian from Rutgers will help to update our contact info with each chapter, if you are not listed on the facebook group as a contact please send contact information for two people from your chapter to Ian at "Ian" <monkeyw...@hotmail.com>,
AGENDA ITEM FOUR-
Formation of National Conference Planning Committee
Passed
Founding members:
Bryn from Cornell bl...@cornell.edu
Katrina from S. Sate college
Wes from Cornell
Ian from Rutgers
Chris from Iowa
Someone from Texas
Someone from Maryland will be on the planning committee
Chris will make a conferece planning committee list-serve, goal to have dae and location ready to promote at U.S social forum, among other great sumer conferences.
Agenda Item Five
Holistic discussion of how to project can nationally
How to better project what is happening on CAN campuses
1. WEBSITE Chris Dols form University of Wisconsin is working on Website changes, email suggestion to "Chris Dols" <chri...@mac.com>,
2. Promotion of IVAW events
many campuses are having IVAW events, We would like to do one big press announcement as well as promote this on various list-serve etc.. By grouping all these events together they will get much more media attention. If your schools is hosting an IVAW event please forward that information along with a contact person to "Katrina Yeaw" <katrin...@gmail.com>,
National Tour
Spencer from Texas will be talking to other groups about doing a national tour, any final decision to go ahead with this will have to wait until the next National Conference.