Justice League News

The next justice meeting is at 6:30PM in the OASIS House (20 Schussler Street).

1. New Veg Group forming on campus
2. Recent Midterm Elections
3. Justice Movie Night Update - Nov 14 @ 7PM (SL115)
4. Consortium of United Students (Cous-cous)
5. Another potluck/discussion of current events?
6. Riotfolk show! - Early Dec (probably Dec 2)
7. Duck Yao at WPI
8. Zapatista Speaker at WPI
9. Abortion Film & Discussion - Nov 16 @ 7:30PM (SL115)

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1. New Veg Group forming on campus
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We talked about the new vegetarian group that is starting to form on campus. The petition for groups status was passed around.

Some people will soon be going through the dorms to get signatures and get interest in the group. If you're interested in helping out, contact me, CJ, Allison or Adam.

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2. Recent Midterm Elections
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We talked about the recent midterm elections, where the Democrats took over the senate and house. Oh yeah, and Donald Rumsfeld finally got fired. Fuck yeah.

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3. Justice Movie Night Update
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We're showing a film and having a discussion next Tuesday, Nov 14 @ 7PM in Kinnicut Hall (SL 115).

The film's called "This is What Democracy Looks Like". It's about the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999. Join the facebook event and invite all your friends. It seems like a cool movie.

CJ and Rickshaw helped stuff the mailboxes in the Campus center with flyers. Give them a high five when you see them next.

We decided we were going to table on Monday and Tuesday to promote the movie series, particularly the one this tuesday. We need someone to take charge of that.

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4. Consortium of United Students (Cous-cous)
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Jacky from Assumption is totally awesome. The Assumption newspaper wrote a pretty great article about the newly formed Cous cous. She's getting people involved left and right. We here at WPI need to get more progressive student groups on board.

We're setting up the next Cous-Cous meeting at Clark so we can get more Clark kids and groups involved.

Now would be a good time to say your last goodbyes to the sweatshop-made garments in the student store.

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5. Another potluck/discussion of current events?
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We tossed around the idea of hosting another potluck and discussion of current events.

If you want to set one up. Do. Pick a topic, set a date, and email the list. We're behind you.

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6. Riot folk show!
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Alright so these awesome folk musicians started this thing called the Riot Folk Collective. Alex Dismore is working with some kids in SocCom or Coffee House to set up a date and get some funding for them to come play a show at WPI in early December.

It might end up being a benefit for the Andy Stepanian's legal defense. (He's the guy that from the SHAC 7 who came to WPI last winter and gave a kick-ass talk on his case and its crazy implications.)

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7. Duck Yao at WPI
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We are working with the Chinese Student Association to host a Taoist vegan dinner party called Duck Yao. This too might end up being a fund-raiser. We're still working on it. Want to help? Email me.

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8. Mexican Solidarity and the Zapatistas
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A lot of crazy shit has been happening in Mexico recently. We have the opportunity to work with the newly formed Hispanic Student Association to bring a speaker from Chiapas, MX to WPI to talk about how free trade has effected their community and how they're fighting back.

I'll be going to the next Hispanic student group meeting to talk to them about it and sort it out. I need help with this. Email me.

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9. Abortion Film & Discussion
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Jenna is organizing a showing and discussion of a film, The Abortion Diaries. It's documentary showing by Penny Lane. You can find out more about it at:
http://www.theabortiondiaries.com/index.htm

Nov 16 (next Thursday) @ 7:30 in Kinnicutt Hall (SL 115)

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This week we had a visitor from Assumption College who we'll be working with to get more cross-campus activism going on. Here's what we talked about:

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
We talked about the AETA and how it's an attack on Free Speech. Please call your senators and representatives and tell them to VOTE NO on the AETA (Senate Bill 3880 and House Resolution 4239). It would make protected free speech activity into felonies and terrorism charges. It's bad. Very bad. You can find out your rep's phone number here: congress.org

Busted!
We're showing Busted: A Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters next Thursday, Oct 5 @ 7PM in Kinnicut Hall

Critical Mass
Critical Mass tomorrow! Bring a bicycle and meet on the Quad at 4:30PM or at the Turtle-Boy Statue at 5:00PM.

Consortium Sweat-Free Campaign
We're going to work with students from Assumption to get sweat-shop clothing out of Worcester. Woo!

Here's the big one: Cous-cous
We're putting together coalition group to help create some unity among the different progressive student groups at the different schools in Worcester. It's called Consortium of United Students aka Cous-Cous. Our friend from Assumption is going to do some rallying over there, we're going to do some rallying at WPI and we'll get folks from Clark in on it too. Hopefully we can all come to some sort of consenus on what we can work on together.

The first meeting will be on Oct 26 @ 6:30PM at a location to be annouced

These are the groups at WPI we're going to invite (and who we're sending to invite them)

If you know any other groups or people who might be interested in working together for social change, try to get them to come or at least have them send a respresentive to the meeting.

Discussion of the "Green Scare"
We're going to try and put together a discussion of the Green Scare with GAEA. Hopefully we'll discuss the FBI witch hunts, grand juries and how the government is trying to convince us that environmental activists are terrorists.Someone will go and talk to GAEA soon to see if they're interested in co-sponsoring the event.

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*********** POTLUCK & DISCUSSION NIGHT***********
The next meeting will be a week from today, August 31st (thursday), at the OASIS house. It will be a potluck dinner (vegan and vegetarian foods preferred) and discussion about the middle east.

So far, this is what we've established for events:

Movie night is set to happen, tuesday nights as usual, but Greg needs to let us know what movies we have to show.

We have some skillshares vaguely set forth in the future. Ian wants to eventually do one on grease cars (modifying cars to run on cooking oil.) The Vegan cooking idea is still a good one. Re-showing Busted would be a good idea. Chloe is going to ask her friend to do a workshop on the consensus process.

Paul expressed interest in contacting the new head of the CDC about the military-industrial complex recruiting on campus, possibly to have a discussion about ethics and the professions.

We need a new president. Does anyone want the job?

I think we're off to a good start. I hope people can make it to the potluck!

-Rickshaw

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- $$ in the Community Service Dept. as a part of SAO = Free Transportation to Community Service events.
Let's use this!

How about?

*Saturday, April 22nd
Worcester Clean Up
Gaea wants to form a Justice/Gaea team!
Let's clean up our enviornment and chill with other campus activists!

-April Fools joke? Greg is a funny man. Contact him.

-Satchmo- back on the ball. We've got Gaea, Photo Club and Justice on the organization petition and we're tackling more!

-Earth Day
Friday/Monday April 21st/24th
Joint Effort with Gaea and SocComm
Gaea says we can get all funding from GSG!
Need people to head up the planning for this.

-Amnesty National Student Action Week: Ratification of CEDAW Treaty (Women's Issues)
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

*Bake Sale
Friday April 7th or 14th
Work with Amnesty for bake sale that charges men $1, women 73c, and minority women 50c
Will highlight unequal pay in U.S.

*Gail Dines
Monday April 17th 7pm
Sexism Speaker is willing to hold a closed workshop with 25 Justice, Click, BiLaGA, and Amnesty members.
Advisors to Justice are welcome.
MUST sign up! There is a reading pre-requisite.

Salut, Chloe

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Stuff going on now:

**Menstration & Feminism Skillshare
Wednesday March 29th HL116 8pm
Help Allison!
Make flyers/posters, tablesitting, participate, and/or make an announcement at a class.

**Screen Printing Shillshare
Tuesday & Wednesday April 11th & 12th
Help EPOCA prepare for thier event by making T-shirts

**Busted: Moved to a tentative Wednesday

Future events:

**Consensus Training
Replace a Justice meeting one Thursday after April 8th -- More in the future

**Earth Day is April 22nd. Alt food on the 21st or 24th? Work with Soccomm (Julia) and Gaea

**Solar Panels. Gaea has solar pannels to play with. Ideas for future projects?

We had a nice little chat with Gail Dines, the Sexism/Pornography speaker, at the end of our meeting. We should do more fun things like this in the future.

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Next Justice Meeting: Thursday, Mar 2 @ 7:00 PM
Clark University Center, 950 Main St, Worcester

1. Critical Mass Today
2. WoGAN, Peaceworks, Justice, etc Potluck Tomorrow
3. Iraq War Awareness & Action Week - Mar 14 thru Mar 20
4. Worcester Consulta
5. D-Term Skillshares Schedule
6. D-Term Movie Schedule
7. No Sweat Update
8. Elections
9. Future Justice Meetings Schedule
10. DC Money Update
11. Website

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1. Critical Mass Today
Quad or Turtle-Boy Statue
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Meet on the quad at 4:15 or at the turtle-boy statue at 4:30. It's a fun bike ride through Worcester.

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2. WoGAN, Peaceworks, Justice, etc Potluck
Sat, Feb 25 @ 5PM in the Oasis House, 22 Schussler St
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In an effort to help bring together the social justice student groups in the consortium, Tim has set up a Potluck dinner for Tomorrow night. It will be on Sat, Feb 25 @ 5PM in the Oasis House, 22 Schussler St. Bring a dish if you can, a vegan one would be best.

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3. Iraq War Awareness & Action Week
Mar 14 thru Mar 20
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March 19, 2003 is the day the bombs dropped on Iraq. Local Worcester groups want to plan awareness events and actions around this time. We'll talk to Peaceworks folks tomorrow at the potluck about plans. Here's what we at WPI have talked about so far:

Tues, Mar 14 - Film About the Iraq War (We need recommendations!)
Thu or Fri, Mar 16 or 17 - Memorial for the dead American Soldiers on the Quad (wooden crosses and stuff)
Sat or Sun Mar 18 or 19 - Sign and banner making party
Mon, Mar 20 - Student march and rally downtown - work with Peaceworks and
WoGAN

Tabling, leafleting and postering throughout the week.

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4. Consulta update
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The Worcester Consulta is a project of WoGAN and community groups that will try to bring together many student and community groups to focus for a day on local and global struggles. Briana will be going to the Worcester Consulta planning meeting next week to represent Justice and will report back to us at the next meeting. If you want to get involved in planning the consulta, contact Briana: broy@clarku.edu.

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5. Skillshares
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Tentative D-Term Schedule:

Wed, Mar 22 - Affirmative Action Discussion featuring Calvin Hill, Director of Minority Affairs at WPI - Drew, Jeff and Tim
Wed, Mar 29 - How to Sew Reusable Menstrual Pads and An Overview of Keepers (a Women's History Month event) - Allison, Briana & Chloe
Wed, Apr 5 - Busted! - Know Your Rights Workshop - Tim & Drew
Wed, Apr 12 - Biodiesel Skillshare - Motorsports Club and Alex Dismore (CJ & Tom too)
Wed, Apr 19 - Design Your Own Clothes - Stenciling and Screen Printing - Briana and Rickshaw
Wed, Apr 26 - Bike Repair - CJ and Ian (Ian, CJ volunteered you)
Wed, May 3 - Vegan Cooking - Allison, Cody and Drew

We have 5 skillshares and 4 good spots. We do have enough Wed's to do them all, but May 3 is the second-to-last day of classes for the year... The schedule I threw together above isn't meant to give vegan cooking the short end of the stick, but since we're going to try to work with Chartwells we'll probably have to be flexible with the date for it. We can talk more about the schedule for D-Term at our next meeting.

Also, if you could write up a short description of your skillshare and send it to me, I can make sure it gets publicized.

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6. No Sweat update
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Members of Justice are working on getting more non-sweatshop goods at WPI. They're talking to Sunny from SGA to see if it's something that SGA could help with. Lot's of info has been gathered the No Sweat workgroup will soon be publishing a leaflet and a cost-benefit analysis for the student store and the SGA. Weekly info-sessions will be popping up during D-Term to help raise awareness and get support from the student body.

D-Term Movie Schedule:

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7. Movies & Discussion - Educate to Liberate
Every Tuesday Evening
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Tues, Mar 14 - Film About the Iraq War (We need recommendations!)
Tues, Mar 21 - Behind the Labels
Tues, Mar 28 - Peacable Kingdom

We need five more movies. Here are the available dates:
Tue, Apr 4
Tue, Apr 11
Tue, Apr 18
Tue, Apr 25
Tue, May 2

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8. Elections
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We have some new officers:
Pres: Chloe
VP: Drew
Secretary: CJ
Treasurer: Cody

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9. Next Justice Meeting: Thursday, Mar 2 @ 7PM
Clark University Center, 950 Main St, Worcester
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Joint meeting with Justice and WoGAN next Thursday. Starting next week we will alternate having joint meetings with WoGAN. WoGAN has meetings every other week so here's the schedule for the next few Justice and Wogan Meetings:

Thu, Mar 2, 06 - Justice/WoGAN meeting @ Clark
Thu, Mar 2, 06 - WPI break, No meeting
Tue, Mar 14, 06 - Justice meeting @ WPI room TBA (So John Sanbonmatsu can make it and so we can jump right into Iraq War Awareness & Action Week. Details about that are below.)

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10. DC Money Update
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Drew got the $490 reimbursement for the bus tickets for the DC trip. Since we distributed the debt, we'll distribute the reimbursement too. Jake will email us the numbers that we should be getting back and Drew'll divide it up.

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11. Website
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Cody and CJ are working on our website. Hopefully we'll be able to post minutes, picture and other stuff soon.

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