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Musical Perfromance
The meeting started off with a wonderful performance of the pigtails for peace song performed by Erin, Jill, and Julie. Thank you ladies for the excellent song

Troop Withdrawl
There are amendments being made to the troop withdrawl referendum question that we all worked so hard to get on the ballot. If you collected signatures for this petition you MUST sign a form to support the amendments being made in order for your collected signatures to be valid. If you were not at the meeting and collected signatures PLEASE make sure you sign this form. If you need this form see Jessica Thill by t his FRIDAY! Her office is located in the upward bound office in Murphy Library. Not sure if you collected signatures for this petition? Jeremy has a list of names, contact him at jansen.jere@students.uwlax.edu to check it out.

SOA Education
TONIGHT at 7pm in 332 CC! If you went to the SOA protest or are looking for more information about SOA please come to this education event and discussion. Share your experiences and get your questions answered. This is a great thing for everyone to be aware of, so tell everyone you know to go!

Department of Peace
A department of peace is trying to be created at the cabinet level, you should all know about this by now...2 of our WI congress representatives have signed on with this new department, but Ron Kind has not. We need to start putting pressure on him during holiday season of peace to remind him that if he is supporting war, he should be counter balancing this with supporting peace. Ryan had some beautiful christmas cards at the meeting that we signed and sent to Ron Kind's home to remind him that all we want for chirstmas this year is peace. We are encouraging you to send him a letter, card, or what have you to his home Ron Kind 205 5th Ave. S Suite 226, La Crosse WI 54601 and remind him what this time of year is all about and encourage him to support the creation of a department of peace.

Bell Ringing
If you signed up to be a bell ringer for the salvation army at Skogans, look for an e-mail from J ill so you know when you are signed up and when you need to ring those little bells!

Wal-Mart: The high cost of low prices
Kevin is looking for some help. He has reserved a table at CC TOMORROW (thursday) from 9-3. He will be showing the dvd and will also be selling anti-wal mart buttons. We passed a sign up sheet around at the meeting, but if you werent there and can stop by the table anytime between 9-3 Kevin would greatly appreciate it! Also if you have a Santa Suit or know where to get one...let Kevin know!

Sexy to be Green
Last Calendar shoot! This Friday from 12-245! Pitts will be sending out an e-mail later with the location to meet. Calendars will be printed next week if we can fin ish this last shoot friday and when they are complete, you can purchase them for $10

Peacemaker Kidnapping
Christian Peacemakers in Iraq were kidnapped and are facing execution, but because the US has a policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists, we are doing nothing to help these peacemakers! there is an on-line petition, if you want to know more or you want to make your opinion heard go to http://www.freethecpt.org

TABOR
Taxpayer Bill of Rights...this is a proposal to freeze property taxes exactly how they are, no consideration for inflation...This would greatly affect our social services such as education system, trash system, police, firefighters, and all other services payed for by property taxes. Colo rado had tried this a few years ago and it did not work at all, it was horrible and they even had inflation taken into consideration. They have decided to abolish it all together. on Dec 8th from 630-730 there will be a discussion about TABOR in WI...it will be at the Acedemic Resource Center in room 200 A & B at WWTC (7th street)

Health Care Forum
Also on Dec 8th frm 530-7 there will be a forum on health care issues, if you are interested it will be at the La Crosse Health and Science Consortium on 1300 badger st in suite 3065

Earthday
The first earthday meeting was last night after the progressives meeting. If you have any ideas about earthday this year, or have feedback from last years earthday contact Kristen Pitts. pitts.kris@students.uwlax.edu

Facebook
Note from Guy Wolfe...Clean up your facebook profile! If you are underage, remove pictures of you drinking, remove pictures of other illegal activities and remove groups that would associate you with such activities...students are being prosecuted and ticketed for the contents of their facebook profiles...

Snapshots with Santa
On thursday, the study day, there will be the second annual snapshots with santa program in cc. you can pay $1 to have your pictures taken with santa and the money goes to benefit the new horizons womans shelter...it was amazing last year, so try to go this year! moms l ove that kind of stuff...and its only a dollar and its going to a good cause!

PARTY!
This Friday night at 1104 State St. (Schryvers house) There will be a $5 donation asked for to consume fermented adult beverages. This was going to be a theme party, some possible themes discussed included: ugly christmas sweaters, long underwear, dickies, neo-con, and inside out...we concluded this discussion with a decision...it is a create your own theme party and the person with the best theme will win a door prize...come on over on friday night, a good time will surely be had by all