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The minutes from our Sunday meeting.

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ARC Minutes
September 16, 2007

Meeting begins at 8:08pm
Facilitation – rotate within ARC Org.

Agenda: Intros/what each group is doing – ARC Event

-Breakout group: if somebody is doing an event that others might want to be involved in, meetup

-Problems/concerns

-What we’re doing next week

-Check-out

In attendance: Rivka –Dems., Katherine: SPA, Ari: ARC, Art: SDS, Jessica: Trisk, Aaron: Trisk, Maya: SEA, Lily: ARC, Sarah: ARC, Ben: DFA, John: Rottenberg Center & Sensible Drug Policy, Jake: STAND, Michelle: FMLA, Max: BLC, Rachel: BLC, Claire: BLC

There were many good sandwiches discussed at this meeting.

Events:

Jake (STAND): Stand no longer an acronym. Bring in a speaker from Sudan, Darfur stoves event coordinating with SEA, Dream for Darfur – a torch relay signifying the torch relay in China to attack China’s image.

Michelle (FMLA): First meeting on Thursday. Getting involved with Waltham community. Workshops?

Claire (BLC): Strategic planning session soon. Meeting with workers coming soon. No Sweat campaign and fair trade campaign. Mock sweatshop? Meeting with workers twice a month.

Art (SDS): hearing on CORI – going to Boston. September 18. Not had a meeting yet, continuing to make changes to structure. 1 page zine to help educate campus. Few returning members.

Rivka (Dems): Fundraising for organizing and for next year’s presidential race. Use the money to team up with other groups. In two weeks hoping to get together with Carpenter’s to do a fundraiser. Hopefully bringing speakers like Gov. Patrick

Katherine (SPA): National conference in mid October . On Tuesday there will be a big visibility campaign including domestic issues. 7pm showing a movie about day of peace. Sep. 23^rd is national day of peace. Ghandi’s grandson coming to Brandeis!

Ben (DFA): Healthcare – healthcare horror stories forum? Brandeis campus workers having problems with healthcare? Some sort of action mobilizing about arming the Brandeis cops.

Aaron (TRISK): Tuesday – pizza party Sept. 18 2-4pm. Luigi Ferrer speaking about HIV/AIDS and other things, trans brandeis getting bathrooms to be gender neutral (just to say “restroom”. Working on getting speakers on things of interest. Waltham House? QRC is starting a “club raps” going to various clubs educating about terms and issues.

Maya (SEA): the Prez signed the climate commitment, maeans that Brandeis is beginning process of becoming climate neutral, signed by deadline of yesterday.

John (Rottenberg Ctr): Working on talking to media outlets, working with College Dems.

Sensible drug policy: Working for end of drug war in US, looking to have event with speakers

Break out sessions – different groups coordinating together about what they can work on.

For next week: Talk about Strengths and Deltas for next week & set up group of people for the Activist fair?

10am club resource room – Student Union Romper Rm