NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY OCTOBER 23rd in the SUB 215.
12-1pm.
Upcoming Events:
AWARENESS WEEK, Oct. 22-26
We need a lot of "tablers" to mind the display over the week in the SUB Concourse. We are doing this together with Oxfam and Amnesty, so we'll only need one STAND rep there at a time. If you can help out, please email ubc@standcanada.org with
a) The times you would be available (between 8:30-4 Monday thru Friday)
b) roughly the max. number of hours you can set aside for this even (even 1 is a big help! I know life is busy).
Showing “The Devil Came on Horseback”
[People are now working on this. We will send the call out for promo help when it's needed.]
Fall Speaker Event
(UPDATE: Philippe Le Billon has offered to speak to us about oil--thoughts?)
Theme: the China-Russia-Sudan connection. Co-sponsor with commerce Student Society?? Econ SS? Development/Economics...
Speaker suggestions: ask your poli-sci/african studies/economics professors for connections
-contact operations@standcanada.org, and ask for a list of speakers for UBC, and what support they might be able to get us.
-we also need food for this event—could seek donations from local businesses
Possible Venue: Liu Norm, Scarfe, Freddy Wood, Ballroom, Partyroom;
Timing will depend on 2 factors: room availability and speaker availability—so we need to look into both of these starting now.
Darfur/Darfur art exhibit? (www.darfurdarfur.org)
We are looking into local museums and art galleries for a place that this photo display might be mounted.
Other jobs that need doing:
a. Webmaster: Make use our Facebook Group, Blog, AMSlink, etc. Find new ways of interacting with the web and promoting our cause. Also, this may require fielding emails and updating membership database.
b. Someone to look into AMS funding. This might be Tanzina, our treasurer, or could be somebody else. We just need a list of what sorts of grants are available from the AMS and the Resource Centre Groups, and how to apply for them.
c.Divestment people. Check http://www.standcanada.org/index.php/take_action/divestment_campaign for some helpful background on this. You do not need to be a commerce or econ student in order to work on this campaign, although we'll take those as well!! Main goal: to get our funds out of the worst-offending companies that are currently operating on Sudanese soil, and funding the military which has killed so indiscriminately in Darfur.
So far, Freedom of Information requests have been sent to each of the boards at www.pensionsbc.ca, and we will engage further with them in the near future.
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To get involved with any of the above projects, just email ubc@standcanada.org and say so! Don't be shy. We are all just a bunch of students, but collectively, we are capable of great things.
www.standcanada.org
standubc.blogspot.com
www.crisisgroup.org
17 October 2007
Update for Oct 17
08 October 2007
Darfur documentary airing on CBC this Thursday
There will be a CBC Documentary airing this week on Thursday
October 11, 2007 at 9pm on CBC-TV, repeating Saturday October 13 at
10pm ET on CBC Newsworld. It's called Darfur: On Our Watch.
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone
Here is an excerpt from the documentary:
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone
-from Mark Moraes of STAND UVic
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