{"id":1444,"date":"2013-10-01T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2013-10-05T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:26:49","slug":"todays-meeting-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2013\/10\/todays-meeting-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Meeting Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody,<\/p>\n<p>Since some of you had to leave early, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a quick recap of what happened at the meeting today.<\/p>\n<p>We voted for our campaigns for this year with the results as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>Campaign for the Year<\/strong>: Conflict Minerals as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisehopeforcongo.org\/content\/conflict-free-campus-initiative\">Conflict Free Campus Initiative<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(CFCI), a creation of Enough Project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>Raise Hope for Congo<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Semester Main Campaigns<\/strong>: <em>LGBT Rights<\/em> with a focus on Russia (October) and then <em>Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rights<\/em> with a focus on India (November).<\/p>\n<p>Second Semester Main Campaigns = <em>Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay<\/em> (January) and then <em>Human Trafficking<\/em> (February\/March).<\/p>\n<p>Although we appear to have more time next semester, the Secret Policeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ball will leave us short on time for campaigns in February, which is why we opted for just two main campaigns again.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of campaign suggestions were:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Destitution and Forced Evictions<\/li>\n<li>Guantanamo Bay<\/li>\n<li>Right to Education<\/li>\n<li>Asylum Deeker and Refugee Rights<\/li>\n<li>Tibet<\/li>\n<li>LGBT Rights (Russia)<\/li>\n<li>Pussy Riot<\/li>\n<li>Human Trafficking<\/li>\n<li>Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rights (India)<\/li>\n<li>Violence Against Women (in the UK)<\/li>\n<li>Organ Harvesting in China<\/li>\n<li>Conflict Minerals<\/li>\n<li>Death Penalty<\/li>\n<li>Water Rights\/Land Rights<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We will try and cover the remaining campaigns at various points throughout the year as one-off meetings.<\/p>\n<p>I am very excited for our chosen campaigns! As I said, LGBT rights, human trafficking and<br \/>\nGuant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay have never been a main focus for GU Amnesty (not since I joined anyway) so it is<br \/>\ngreat to be doing these. For now though, here are the suggestions for our first campaign:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dayofsilence.org\/\">Day of Silence<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/li>\n<li>Events in partnership with LGBTQ+, the Equality Network (including something discursive),<br \/>\nand the 4 student bodies but particularly GUSA and GUSSC in relation to a campaign in the run up to the Winter Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>Attending events in the <a href=\"http:\/\/glasgay.co.uk\/\">Glasgay festival.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A photo campaign in support of the LGBTQ+ at our university\/globally and against Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-gay crackdown and the Olympic Committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inaction.<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLove is a human right\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 gig night, hopefully with the GU Band Society, as a combined campaign and fundraiser.<\/li>\n<li>Visual demonstration on campus (somebody suggested creating an image using the Olympic rings and someone else thought of playing the Russian anthem).<\/li>\n<li>Letter writing, as always.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These ideas were FANTASTIC and we will begin contacting the various organisations to see what we can arrange.<\/p>\n<p>We will be having a <strong>bake sale outside the library next Thursday 10th October<\/strong> for International Day against the Death Penalty. We will need everyone who is available even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only for a couple of hours to help run the stall and to take part in a demo. We will spend some time at our next meeting organising this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elections<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we are hoping to start next week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s election at 6pm so that we still have time for a regular meeting. However, we will obviously double check at the start of the meeting to make sure that everyone who wants to run can stay from 6pm onwards, and if not we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll begin before then.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our <strong>Tibet meeting tomorrow in the Boyd Orr 6(6.30 start)-8pm<\/strong>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad so many of you are coming along, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see you there.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody, Since some of you had to leave early, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a quick recap of what happened at the meeting today. We voted for our campaigns for this year with the results as follows: Our Campaign for the Year: Conflict Minerals as part of the Conflict Free Campus Initiative\u00c2\u00a0(CFCI), a creation of Enough Project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRaise <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2013\/10\/todays-meeting-summary\/\"><br \/>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,19,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmuU-ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}