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January 17, 2003 National Sudent Conference (West) in San Francisco
1) West Coast Student Conference Report
2) Pre-Conference Press Release
West Coast Student Conference Report
San Francisco State University, Ceasar Chavez Student Center
January 17, 2003
11:00am- 6pm Final list of schools attended:
1. Cal State U Humbolt
2. Norte Dame De Namur U.
3. San Francisco State U.
4. U.C. Berkeley
5. U.C. Davis
6. U.C. LA
7. U.C. Santa Cruz
8. U. San Francisco
9. U of Southern California
10. San Jose State U.
11. Scripps College
12. Santa Monica Community College
13. U. of Washington
14. Portland State U.
15. U.C. San Diego
16. U.C. San Francisco
17. Reed College
18. San Diego State U.
19. Cal State L.A.
20. Washington State U.
21. U. of Oregon
22. Seattle Central Community College
23. Occidental College
24. De Paul, Chicago (guest)
Proposed Agenda
11:00-11:30 introduction to conference
rules and procedures of how conference shall be run
individual school check in
11:30-1:00 Vote on Agenda
1:00- 2:00 Coordinate with East Coast Conference
Discuss name
National Conference
2:00-3:00 Lunch
Workshops
3:00-5:00 Proposals
5:00- 6:00 other propsal and committee work time
with the addition of
1. local organizing
2. disscussion of current events to know what we are planning
Eas Coast Conference
Specific name proposals
1. Campus Anti-War Network (CAN)
2. Students for Peaceful Solutions
Adam's proposal: to have a third option in the voting
process,third would be neither.
Proposal seconded and passed.
Vote count:
28 for Campus Antiwar Network
1 for Students for Peaceful Solutions
1 for neither
1 abstentions
Vote passed to have CAN as our official name.
Kirya's proposal: to discuss points of unity.
Proposed Points of Unity from East Coast Conference:
1. Opposition to the war on Iraq
2. Commitment to educate people against the war
Proposals as a result of discussion
Philip - proposed points of unity include:
1. No to racism and attack on civil liberties
2. No UN Sanctions
3. Link movement to workers and immigrants
4. Money for education and not war
UCSC - proposed points of unity include:
1. no to war and sanctions on Iraq
2. money for education and jobs
3. Defend civil liberties
4. End scapegoating to Muslems/ ArabsPhilip withdrew his proposal and combined with UCSC's
proposal
Todd's proposal- in addition to GW's proposal, include civil
liberties and no to UN sanctions and have sub commitees to
represent the West Coast todiscuss points of unity at the
national conference.
Ani Mara's proposal includes:
1. no to war on the world
2. stand in Solidarity to Foreign students/ no SEVIS
3. no to Special Registrations
Vote count of the three proposals on the table:
21 for Todd
6 for Philip/ UCSC
2 Ani Mara
1 abstentions
Todd's proposal passed meaning points of unity would be
disscussed by west coast representatives at National
Conference.
The National Conference
Vote to have a National Conference:
Passed: 29 yes, 0 no, 2 abstentions
East Coast proposed the dates February 22-23 2003 hosted by
CSAWN in Chicago.
Vote to have National Conference on Feb 22-23/03 in Chicago:
Passed: 27 yes, 0 no, 2 abstentions
Lunch time and workshops
UCSC held workshop on how to demilitarize on campus
SFSU held workshop on how to start a group on campus
Todd held committee meeting for national conference?
After lunch had GW conference call and talked about national
conference. Organizers for Chicago conference will have three
people elected: two people not from Chicago , University of
Michigan and University of Wisconsin Madison, and one person
from Chicago, Kristen: KristinL68@hotmail.com (777) 227-
7873. GW had also established five regional comittees, 1. New
York, 2. Mid- West, 3. South, 4. North East and 5. Mid Atlantic.
Proposals:
1. to invite other national anti war groups to 2/ 22-23 national
conference as guests (not delegates).
Passed 24 yes, 0 no, 1 abstention
2. with in statement proposed by the East Coast, to remove all
specific dates and names.
Original statement stated: " This organization remains independent of other national
organizations to avoid divisivness and sectarianism and we will
join with other groups for specific actions like Jan 18th
A.N.S.W.E.R. demonstration and Feb 15 called UFPJ."
Passed 25 yes, 0 no, 0 abstentions
3. To endorse 2/15 day of national and international action
supported by United for Peace and Justice (UPJ) in NY and Bay
Area United Against War (BAUAW) in SF
Passed 26 yes, 0 no, 0 abstentions 4.
To endorse 2/8- 15 week of cultural resistance
Passed 25 yes, 0 no, 0 abstentions
5. To endorse 3/5 day of action
Passed 23 yes, 2 no, 1 abstention
6. to establish 4 regional west coast committees: 1. Pacific North
West, 2. Northern California, 3. Southern California, and 4.
Western Mountain States and have at least one representative
from each regional committee on any working committee ( look
at proposed agenda) Passed
7. Humbolt State proposed to have campus wide day of action
e.g. student walk out on 2/6
Not Passed 6 yes, 8 no, 1 abstention
8. NION proposed campuses to disseminate information for
SEVIS list Passed
9. To have National day of student action school day after the war
begins called "day X" Passed
10. along with proposal #9, each campus send a report to group
email campus_peace-owner@yahoo.com Passed
Endorsements passed:
( came to the agreement that endorsing an event means we
support it and that a campus does not have to plan something
even though it was still left open for others to participate in.)
* suggested days of action:
Mon 1/27 march on the United Nations (Not in Our Name)
Tues 1/28 State of the Union from President Bush
Wed 1/29 suggested day of protest
* we made commitment to some action on campus on one of
the three days, 1/27-29
* endorse 2/8-15 week of Cultural Resistance
* endorse 2/15 international day of action student rally in New
York
* endorse 3/5 day of action
Announcement made by Jackie, the student coordinatior at
ANSWER about student contigents
At Spear and Market at 10:30 am and future week of actions on 2/
13- 21.
Working Committees at break out times:
1. website
2. local organizing
3. media/ zine
4. national conference
5. emergency response
suggestion to have CAN email list be put on @riseup.net so it is
not supervised by government inspections.
Pre-Conference Press Release for National Sudent Conference (West) in San Francisco
The student peace movement has been growing steadily since the October 26, 2002 rallies in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. See University Students Organizing Against War, which describes student organizing at the October 26 Washington, D.C. rally.
Students Against War in Iraq (SAWI) at George Washington University convened a meeting with up to 300 students from about 35 schools and universities. SAWI started a listserv at that meeting, which has grown to include students throughtout the country.
The listserv has grown and has responded to the students' call for sister national conferences in Washington, DC and San Francisco on January 17, 2003, the day before the massive rallies planned for the 18th in those cities. The StoptheWar Coalition, which has been working with Traprock to support and link the student movements in the UK and US, is sending two representatives to the DC student conference. Jeremy Corbyn, UK MP (Labour) and leading human rights advocate, will give the key note address at the DC Conference. He is a primary organizer with Stop the War,which is also sending Helen Salmon, a student from Oxford University and the UK's National Union of Students. She is coming as an ambassador to the US student movement.
PLEASE FORWARD AND DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE---
Announcement:
Students Against War at SFSU is planning to host a conference for west coast college campus organizations. As Bush is preparing the war on Iraq which will most likely take place by late January if not sooner, we think that it is absolutely crucial that the grassroots student anti-war movement set up an organizing network to be able to take on the Bush war machine to the best of our ability. This is a conference to discuss mass orgainzation between college campuses, set up a network of campus groups against the war on the West Coast as well as to plan for futher action against the war with Iraq.One of the most exciting aspects of this conference is that students on the East Coast in Washington D.C. at George Washington University will be having an organizing conference on the same day, and through modern technology we could potentially coordinate actions and organize work at the national level.
Procedure
We ask that two delegates are sent to represent each campus and have decision making power in order to have balance and some democracy at this meeting. The representatives can be from any anti war organization on your campus. Anyone else who would like to attend is of course, encouraged to, but only the delegates will have decision making power. One of the main reasons why SFSU Students Against War voted for this conference to be delegated is because we thought it would be more fair that way. An anti-war group of 5 or 6 people just getting started should have have much say as to action planning and coordination as a group of 70 or 80 people, for instance.
As soon as your delegates are selected, please forward their name and contact information to <mailto:leticiaarellano2000@yahoo.com>leticiaarellano2000@yahoo.com and <mailto:noozle83@hotmail.com>noozle83@hotmail.com.
Leanna from SF State is currently drafting a proposal for decision making procedure which should be sent over the lists in the next couple of days.
Proposed Agenda
A complete agenda of the conference will be later finalized, and we are open to any ideas that anyone might have. We feel that for this conference to be as successful as possible, agenda points and proposals have to generated by the conference participants themselves. Please bring your ideas and creative energy; we are looking forward to seeing you. Here is a proposed agenda put together by students from San Francisco State University, UC Berkleley, Stanford University, and City College of San Francisco.
1.)Reports from campus groups
2.)Future Actions/coordination-note-a student from Stanford recently suggested that Emergency Response organization should be included on the agenda
3.)Committees
Proposed Committees Include-
*national conference
*national zine/newsletter
*outreach
*coordination between schools
4.)Contingent Organizing for January 18th West Coast March in San Francisco.-This contingent will be meeting at 10am on January 18th, at the corner of Bush and Battery Streets in downtown San Francisco outside of the Montgomery Street BART train station.
Please send ideas for agenda proposals to <mailto:wcstudentconference@yahoo.com>wcstudentconference@yahoo.com.
Endorsements
We are asking for endorsements from any and all of your campus committees and coalitions, particularly those on the West Coast. Here are a list of endorsers so far, with some updates.
*San Francisco State University-Students Against War
*UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition
*University of California, Davis
*University of California, Santa Cruz
*California State University, Humboldt
*Notre Dame de Namur University-Belmont, CA
*University of California, San Diego
*Seattle Central Community College
*University of Washington
*Portland State University
*University of Vermont
*George Washington University
*Northeastern University
Please send any other endorsements to <mailto:wcstudentconference@yahoo.com>wcstudentconference@yahoo.com.
Housing
We will also be organizing housing for anyone who needs a place to stay. Lara from UC Berkley is the point person for housing. She can be reached at <mailto:mellowlark@yahoo.com>mellowlark@yahoo.com. If you will need housing in the Bay Area , please contact her as soon as possible. Thanks.
General Information
when: Friday January 17, 2003
Time: 10:30am-6pm
Where: San Francisco State University, Rosa Parks Conference Room, in the basement level of the Cesar Chavez Student Center (just look for the big building in the middle of campus with a mural of Malcolm X and Cesar Chavez on the front of it).
Location
San Francisco State University is located at 1600 Holloway Ave., in the Sunset District of San Francisco. Its crosstreets are 19th Ave. and Holloway. It is located off of the 280 John Daly Boulevard Exit. It is accessible via several forms of public transportation:
MUNI bus lines-17, 28, 18, 29, 26
MUNI train line-M
There is also a shuttle that runs back and forth between Daly City BART station and SF State about every 10 minutes.Contacts for endorsements and general information: Leticia Arellano <mailto:leticiaarellano2000@yahoo.com>leticiaarellano2000@yahoo.com and LeAnna Sharp <mailto:noozle83@hotmail.com>noozle83@hotmail.com, Students Against War, SFSU
Hope to see you there!
Leticia Arellano, Students Against War, San Francisco State University
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