Sept. 27th Meeting and events

Camp Wellstone
Camp Wellstone will be taking place October 14-15. Camp Wellstone is a very well-known activist training. See http://www.wellstone.org/ for more information. Sign up sheet was passed around at the meeting, if you were unable to make the meeting and are interested in signing up still, contact Ryan Schryver at schryver.ryan@students.uwlax.edu There is a $10 registration fee that also needs to be paid to Ryan by next Tuesday's meeting at the very latest. Checks can be made payable to the La Crosse Peace and Justice Coalition.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RFK Jr. is an environmental lawyer and has worked on many environmental campaigns through out the Americas. This is a big event, 2000+ people and guaranteed to motivate the hell out of you. CAB still would like our help in publicizing this event as well as set up for this event. It will be taking place November 2 at 7pm in the REC. If you are interested in helping with this event there is an informational meeting October 5th at 9pm, location TBA. If you volunteer for 3 hours the cost of your ticket will be free. So if you are interested in helping and going to this event for free come to the informational meeting or contact Kristen Pitts at pitts.kris@students.uwlax.edu

Troop Withdrawl from Iraq
Canvasing help is needed! Signatures to get troop withdrawl put onto the April referendum are being collected. 2500 signatures are required from La Crosse residents in order to get this on the referendum. If you are interested in helping canvas for this cause there will be a gathering Saturday October 7th at the Maple Leaf Parade for Oktoberfest. The meeting place will be outside of Jules Coffee shop on Pearl street at 11am. If you are interested in helping to collect signatures, but cant make Saturday...see Ryan Schryver for he has petition packets that you can take to collect signatures. More information on this issue: http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org/iraqreferendum/

SOA
We need to know numbers of how many people are interested in attending this years School of the Americas aka School of the Assassins Protest at Fort Benning, GA November 18-21. School of the Americas is government-run program where the U.S. military teaches Central American armies torture tactics, counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics and forced oppressions to keep citizens from uprising against the government. Our tax dollars pay for this school. If you are interested and did not sign up at the meeting, please contact Andrew Gilbert gilbert.andr@students.uwlax.edu also contact Andrew if you have any questions regarding the protest and what goes on there or why it goes on. Andrew attended last year and is a good resource for those of you who have questions! For more info: http://www.soaw.org/new/

Upcoming Announcements
If anyone has anything they would like to bring up at future Progressives meetings there will be a new format. If you could arrive 15 minutes before the meeting starts (6:45 for those of you who are mathematically challenged) Contact either Jeremy Jansen, Jackie Jarvis or Erin Lavoie We are hoping to bring a little bit more organization to the meetings. As always if you think of something during the meeting there will be time to make announcements at the end.

Birth Control
As you all should be aware...there is a bill right now talking about prohibiting the distribution, prescribing and advertising of hormonal medications on UW system campuses. This is totally NOT ACCEPTABLE! Jill and Erin are leading the way in taking action on this issue on our campus. We need to focus on contacting Dan Kapanke and letting him know how we feel about this issue, this bill simply can not be passed! Letter writing campaigns, phone calls, petitions, etc...anything we can do to not have this bill passed! The sub committee for working on this issue will be having a ameeting this Thursday (sept 30) if you have any questions contact either Jill hayes.jill@students.uwlax.edu or Erin erin_lavoie@hotmail.com

Students for Choice
This Madison organization is going to be speaking and lobbying at the capitol regarding this birth control issue..if anyone from Lax is interested in attending Thursday October 27th please contact Erin erin_lavoie@hotmail.com asap so we can see if a bus is needed or we can just carpool

Endangered Species Act
VOTE NO! Bill HR 3824 Please contact Ron Kind asap at 220-225-5506 about this act. It is going to be taking away from critical habitat that is currently being protected by the endangered species act...if this new act is enacted it will no longer be protected which will lead to endangered species becoming extinct! Questions on this can be directed to miss Kristen Pitts pitts.kris@students.uwlax.edu

Bluff Clean Up
Trekker Club is having a bluff clean up this Sunday sometime in the afternoon. A sign up sheet was passed around, but if you missed it contact the trekker club for more info and for a time.

Women's Leadership Conference
If you are not attending SOA, i highly reccomend you attend this conference in Eau Claire as it is the same weekend and you can not attend both. If you would like to sign up there is a sign up sheet in the Student Association office on the second floor of CC or contact Liz Peyer peyer.eliz@students.uwlax.edu

Progressive Movie Night
The second half of the Corporation will be shown TONIGHT in the ward room, cc at 7pm.

Did you know that La Crosse has no racism? If you buy this...well you shouldn't be getting this e-mail...if not we are planning on attending the next anti-racism taskforce meeting. If you are interested contact Carrie Olson

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS IN ATTENDACE...YOU ARE ALL AMAZING! :) NEXT WEEKS MEETING WILL BE TUESDAY OCTOBER 4TH AT 7PM IN 259 CC