MPJC 2/12/08

from the Macalester Public Knowledge Base

• Intros

• Exco Report-back
  • A couple new people, mostly educating ourselves.
• RNC Committee Report-back
  • Laying out of logistical things
  • Basis of a timeline
  • Contacts here and there
• Proposal for a mass meeting to hype RNC for Mac community. Meeting will happen

Tuesday April 1.

• • Outreach should occur for maximum attendance.
  • Serve as a way to inform students about the RNC and give them a chance to

participate.

• • People who want to help plan this should go to Monday night 10 o?clock RNC working

group meetings.

• • Will not be the only meeting. Hopefully there will be others to target specific orgs that might be interested in participating. CONSENSUS.
• Proposal RNC Committee will be able to make own decisions w/out taking them to

MPJC/SDS for approval, like the strike committee. CONSENSUS

• IGC War Organizing
  • Want our help on the 4th of March. Different orgs would have tables talking about different views on the war. Want student involvement and awareness raised that change is possible.
  • Would be bipartisan.
  • Will also be week of classes dedicated to talking about the war.

• Review Group Roles
  • Treasurer: Semester to semester. Two old members and two new members. Jon, Sadie
  • Dan will be liason to MCSG and FAC.
  • Analog Historians: Saving hardcopies of the shit we need in a binder. Stored in infoshop desk. Hadley and Alison.
  • Digital Historians: Update SDS and MPKB websites with concensed upon proposals and notes and all the other stuff we need. Brendan, Bassam?
  • List-serv Administrators: Keeping membership updated on discuss and announce

list-servs. Also need to send out meeting remembers 1 day before. Julianna (contingent upon website change being possible) Sophie

• • Quaterly Jobs
    • Agenda Planners- Design the proposal each week, assign time limits, speak with facilitator each week, track tabled items?
  • Membership Roles- get new members!!! Lisa, Nick, Arella

• February Moratorium Proposal + Assign Tasks
  • Recruitment Center: Picket recruitment center in the early hours of the morning, form a line people entering would have to cross. Centers open at 8. Be there 7:45-9amish. Would make the recruiter have to walk through the picket line, disrupting their daily business in this way. ROTC members will be going to the office in the morning, could be talking to them. Put together literature to be distributed. Need to have specific language so that we target military system and not soldiers. Tone is clear.
  • Sounds like because are involved with ROTC at U of M would be people already pretty involved in the military. ROTC not going to be super friendly to us ?world of pain?.
  • Campus Center: Sit inside the campus center at high traffic hours, wear blindfolds, open eyes to the war, distribute flyers about Iraq War Moratorium.
  • Painting the Snow outlines of bodies to symbolize dead Iraqis and soldiers, spray paint red like blood.
  • REMEMBER WHAT YOU SIGNED UP TO DO!!

• SDS National Proposals
  • I got lazy check them out

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• 9 Rubber stamping the national bulletin that already exists. Consensus.
• 8 Lay out methods by which SDS can be communicate. Physical mailing address for national SDS, each chapter needs physical mailing dress, letters to be archived online, 5 regional contacts that?.. Voted down.
• 7 Open to all students. If non student/older vote at chapter level and job at the chapter member not at the national level. Consensus
• 6 National structure. After much discussion, voted down.