meeting notes 3/10/10

This was a great meeting! We agreed on several things we want to do this semester and different people volunteered to start working on them. Meredith, Marlee, Julia, Cyndi, Mari, Nick, Casey, Emma, and I were there (am I missing anyone?).

We were excited about a sticker campaign, and we all decided to find a fact or two about coffee, gold, bananas, drugs, etc. that would inform students of our $'s impact on Central America/El Salvador. Someone said they already had a list of facts... who was that? Cyndi, maybe?

We also want to do call-in days for the mining issue, and Mari suggested doing them at potlucks. We liked that idea.

We were also into bringing a speaker to talk about Pacific Rim--mining--political violence--El Salvador one night, and do a follow-up discussion over lunch the next day with that speaker, as Sam suggested at an earlier meeting.

Meredith says she knows someone who might be a good speaker to bring to talk about mining and the Honduras coup. Julia also had an idea of someone to contact.

Marlee told us about the Nicaragua Sister Co-op Project bananas event happening tomorrow, and we decided to co-sponsor it.

Julia also suggested writing a mining piece for Headwaters, the new environmental magazine. Mari told us she's working on a piece about Pacific Rim for a politics class, and that she'd be interested in turning that into an article to reach a broader audience. Phoebe had also expressed interest in that at an earlier meeting, so maybe some collaboration can happen.

Emma found some information about the Peace Potlucks for us, in case we want to try to collaborate with them when our speaker comes.

We talked about other things, too, but I don't have the notes with me -- so definitely comment with other things that came up and that people volunteered to do!

In other news: Sofia agreed to be our treasurer! Congrats, Sofia! And thanks. Casey knows a lot about how to work with SFC from Oberlin Peace Activists League, and volunteered to be a resource for Sofia.

We decided our next meeting will be this Wednesday, 3/24, at Tank lunch. Nick's going to facilitate and send out a reminder email. Then after break we'll switch the meetings to every other Sunday at 7pm in International House.

welcome! bienvenidos!

Here it is! A blog for OSES, so we can communicate with those involved on campus at Oberlin College, OSES alumni, santamarteños, other salvadoreños, related organizations, etc. Adelante!