October 28, 2007
Face meeting October 28
Flyers are printed for the event - will be picked up tomorrow
Quick Meeting tomorrow to get flyers for posting them up – meet upstairs in Reid at 4pm – distribute them at your will on your own time – e-mail Gabriela if you can’t come at 4 but you still want to put up flyers
Will make a Facebook group/Facebook event – look to join the group and invite people you know, get talking, get excited
Event is 7:30 Jewett Main Lounge this Thursday – meet at 7pm to set up
October 21, 2007
FACE 10/21/07
Military Panel Advertising
Women in the Military: The Hidden Battle
Fem sign with the military hat on it – letters in Camouflage on pink paper
Flyers will be designed tomorrow
Table toppers
A blurb preview + Post Panel article in the Pio
Look for an e-mail from Gabriela soon asking for help putting up flyers
Gabriela bought the pornography book from Amazon – we're going to submit a request for a speaker after we read the book and discuss it – it got good review in Ms
E-mailed Douglas in the bookstore about fem magazines (Bitch and Bust) – that's now in the works
E-mailed Ana about getting magazines in the library - she's on that
Discussed a conference in LA next month sponsored by Fem majority, but based on cost, how soon it's coming up, and the possibility of attending a spring conference in the NW, we decided to pass on the LA onference
Women in Politics Panel
Working on getting the Governor to come the week before Thanksgiving We can request a speech topic – women in politics
Patty Murray as a possible speaker
Would ASWC help us?
Republican Representative in Walla Walla – invite or no?
Event at the Verve
This Tues – Planned Parenthood “Save Birth Control” A group will meet at WRL and walk over - this should be a great event - please come!
Waiting to hear back from coffeehouse organizer on Staceyanne Chin
STD Testing and Awareness event
Free STD testing vouchers reserved for people who don’t have enough money and emergency use, and free testing with a raising awareness event - STD testing event National Sex Health Awareness month in April, but that's pretty far away
Biggest thing keeping people from being tested isn’t resources, maybe laziness? Fear? Anonymity issue? Hope to change this
October 14, 2007
Face meeting 10/14/07
Military Panel:
We met with Buddy tonight, one of our two panelists and discussed the event
Nicole is going to book the venue for the Jewett Lounge, and if we hold the event around dinner time – 7:30 ish – we hope to pick up passersby
The event is November 1st
This is how we see the event going:
Buddy will speak first for about 15 minutes on his observations of sexism and a historical perspective of how the issue has changed
Janet will speak second for about 15 minutes on her personal experience/observations of sexism and homophobia
Then there’ll be an extensive Q&A session that will constitute the rest of the event
Near the end, we’ll discuss action options and encourage people to attend an in-depth follow-up action meeting
We’ll give people a packet with:
1) A list of website/resources for them to use in staying informed and educated
-Please send links you’d like to be included of your favorite general resources to Gabriella so we can compile a master list
2) A “What you can do” sheet with different activism options
3) A copy of a letter they can sign and hand to us
4) Other ideas of material we should include? Send ideas to Gabriella
Some possible targets we discussed for activism/letters/petitions were:
Patty Murray as a veteran’s advocate
The Department of Defense
The local high school as a recruitment target
At an upcoming meeting we’ll brainstorm the activism letter to be handed out with the
Peace Coalition
We’ll also discuss advertising for this event: flyers now – listserve closer to the event
Buddy also wanted us to consider the campaign going on now by Code Pink – see the link Brittany sent
Marriage Lecture:
Professor Janning expressed a desire to speak about marriage sometime in December
More information on this to come
VOX wants to do this event with us - encouragement for us to attend VOX meetings Wed @ 4pm
Speaker:
Gabriella sent around an article about a Professor in Texas who wrote a book about pornography and masculinity
He’s like to come speak, most likely in the spring
See if we can get his book as a book on campus
If anyone is interested in volunteering to read his book – email Gabriella
We’re going to contact ASWC to see if bringing him in as a speaker is a possibility
Feminist Magazines:
Want to see a bigger presence and variety of these in the bookstore and/or library
Possible Upcoming events to plan:
1) Drive to see a bigger reporting of sexual harassment/misconduct
Want to get more information out about the process so more people feel comfortable reporting
Work with Barbara Maxwell and Consent on this one
2) Staceyann Chin as a guest performer at the coffee house
3) Outreach to let people know who we are
- Table toppers for the military panel and FACE meetings in general
- Next meeting discuss a potluck
September 23, 2007
FACE meeting 9/23/07
1) Hedwig movie screening this coming Saturday
The movie will be shown in Kimball and will start around 7:30
We're still waiting to see if Professor Tobin will introduce the film
Tomorrow evening there will be a meeting for any who want to be involved in designing advertisements - arty people please come! More information on this will be e-mailed out shortly
Either Tuesday or Wednesday there will be a meeting about distribution of the advertisements - we need a group of people to plaster stuff everywhere
If freshman could talk to their CORE teachers and ask them if they'd plug our event.
There is a song in the movie based on Aristophanes' speech in Plato's "Symposium" which CORE will be reading the the first week of October. If CORE teachers could mention our event to their classes (or offer extra credit would be even better) this could really help our turnout.
At the event, we'll have a FACE table to let people know about us and have listserv sign-up available. We're also inviting GLBTQ and The Coalition Against Homophobia to join us in this event
Stazh made a Facebook event for us - invite everyone!
We're going to try and get a popcorn machine, and we're working out what other munchies we'll have at the movie. Interested in baking for this? Let us know
We've confirmed that (sorry if I misspell your name) Gabriela, Stazh, Gabbi, Amelia, and I will be at the event to make sure everything runs smoothly
2) Military Panel
The panel is set for October 25 from 7-9pm. The location will be confirmed soon
Two people - Janet and Buddy - will be speaking We still have to decide if we want to give them a set range of topics we want them to cover or if we want them to freeform it
The Peace Coalition will be co-hosting this event with us
We're hoping to have a meeting sometime in the future with Janet and Buddy to talk about how we all see the event going
Still looking for ideas for action items we can offer after the panel
Hope you're all enjoying the end of your weekend!