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 16, 2005

MEETING

James Kinsman
James came to talk to us about his upcoming campaign.  He is running for the 94th assembly district position.  He is currently a labor union representative in the state of WI, and a lobbyist. James is pro-choice, does not support the ban on birth control, faught to raise the minimum wage across the state, he worked on the budget to help the students fight against cutting financial aid and raising tuition.  He came to us to ask if there was anyone interested in helping him with his campaign this summer, he is willing to open his house to students who want to work on this with him....look for more info on this and other events from Ryan...
 
SOA
WE NEED TO FILL THE BUS ASAP! There have been many cancellations in the last few days and the bus is no longer full...if you know ANYONE interested in going please contact Andrew ASAP.  Also, if you have no t yet paid Andrew, he needs your check or cash right away! The protest is this weekend and all of this needs to come together as soon as possible...
 
Sexy Calendar
The first photo shoots for our calendar happened last Sunday and they were able to get 5, maybe 4 scenes completed...one may be a little questionable...the next photo shoot will be sometime this Sunday afternoon, look for more info from Pitts on this to follow...also if you are interested in helping look for sponsors for this, that would be amazing! contact Pitts pitts.kris@students.uwlax.edu if you are interested
 
Acedemic Oversight Committee
TONIGHT at the senate meeting in 337CC at 600pm come to support the nomination of 2 progressives/environmental council representatives to an oversight committe to ensure energy efficient and environmentally friendly things happen with this new aced emic building that is going to be built...they need your support tonight so if you have nothing going on at 600 come to this meeting!
 
Environmental Council meeting Thursday at 4pm in CC - We will be talking about the new academic building and more. Please come and show your support for making this building as environmentally friendly as possible!
 
Wal-Mart
Movie premier TONIGHT at 7pm in PORT'O CALL come to watch this new documentary about Wal-Mart!
 
Fair Trade Coffee Month
Fair Trade Coffee is the same price as normal coffee this month at the Cyber Cafe...they are also selling our mugs for $5 so go down and support this! Good work Jill!
 
Troop Withdrawl Signatures
We are almost there! THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HELPED GATHER SIGNATURES AT THE CLOCKTOWER! We can make our goal if we keep working this week! The signatures are due by this FRIDAY so hand out petitions in your classes today and tomorrow! Need more petitions? See Ryan ASAP have completed petitions? Drop them off in Guy Wolf's office located in GMH
 
Joint Legislative Hearing
1-2pm Cleary Alumni Center, room TBA next Monday...there will be an opportunity to speak with Kapanke, Shilling, and others about the current legislature...thank Jen for opposing AB343!
 
AB343
If anyone missed the article in the Tribune last Sunday that talked about the work done by our very own Jackie, Erin and Jill...go to http://www.lacrossetribune.com and search birth control ban to read the article...Keep going on this issue, it's not over!
 
NEXT WEEKS MEETING TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22, 7PM 259 CC

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