UWL Progressives

The Progressives bring together progressive thinking individuals to encourage democracy, ecological wisdom, social justice, non-violence, global awareness, post patriarchal values, respect for diversity and personal as well as social responsibility. The group focuses on actions to promote and raise awareness of these issues.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

EARTH DAY

EARTH DAY!

The first 2006 Earth Day organizational meeting is next Tuesday, December 6th at 8 p.m. in room 332 Cartwright Center. This year myself (Kristen) and Kaitlynn Radloff will be co-directing the Earth Day Celebration, but we will need mucho helpo from all of you. In fact, one of my major goals this year is to create more of an actual coalition with local businesses and organizations, which I will expand upon at the meeting.

The foci of this meeting are:
1) To create committees (see below for what committees will be forming)
2) To discuss likes/dislikes of last years event (what to change, what to keep)
3) To brainstorm new ideas, new events, new set-ups, new locations, new weather

Now, I understand that 8 p.m. on a Tuesday does not work for everyone, so if you've got ideas or thoughts you'd like to share, please let me know. We really want to make this year's celebration the best possible and it's best if we address new ideas now while we're just starting the planning. Also, like I said above, we'd like to make this coalition more of a coalition, so if you know anyone from organizations, businesses, or the gym who you think would be interested in this, please let them know.

Thanks a bunch and I hope to see all your lovely faces next Tuesday!
Kristen



Committees to be formed (can be revised):
Fundraising (we need you now!)
Education (this may be split into K-5, 6-12)
Entertainment (musician line-up and speaker system arrangements)
Food/Refreshments
Booths
Education Events during week
Public Relations & Media
Designers (brochure, posters, banners)

1 Comments:

At 9:37 PM, Blogger Cathy Van Maren said...

Open Eye Docs has permission to show the film, Kilowatt Ours, in April 2006. It's about personal energy use and how to make it better. If you all are interested, I'd like to suggest scheduling this film during the Earth week activities. As I said, I have permission to show it and they will send handouts and other info.

Also, is anyone there interested in making 2006 the year we work on getting La Crosse to sign on to the U.S. Cities version of Kyoto? As you may know, over 160 U.S. cities' mayors have signed on to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (more info at http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/mayor/climate/

If you are interested, this would be a great week to work it (maybe we need another referendum petition??? I know how much fun you had standing in the freezing wind for the US Out petition ;)

 

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