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| Woowee! It's been forever lightyears since I updated this! Well, there's some ground to cover, so let's get started.
First off, there's a meeting this Wednesday, November 16, and the
format of the club is going to be slightly changed. There's going
to be the usual talk about stuff going on (and IS there!), but
afterwards, instead of banting for like twenty minutes like we normally
do at lunch, I'm going to do a short presentation about sweatshops and
try to bring all of us up to speed about what's going on in the
world. OK!
Two things going on right now :
1) Sometime this week the recycling program is going to
double/triple in size (it'll take a few days to see). Glisson
will probably be covering the overhead on this and I'll actually make
the new bins as it'll be easy. But, I'm going to start needing
help on emptying, and bagging, the bottles, and taking them to
show. If anyone is interested in this I'll give you a crash
course on it. Typically it just takes around 30-45 minutes
afterschool on Friday afternoon.
2) Main hall display. Originally this was going to be an
anti-sweatshop display targeting specific corporations and was going to
be in the main hallway replacing the cheerleading display that hasn't
been updated in a year. At this poin't I've decided to change the
display to target just coke, for complicated reasons I'll tell everyone
at the meeting. If you are an avid drinker of coke, I suggest you
check out the whole story at Killer Coke website. Not sure how long it will take to make it, but I'm guessing around a month or so.
3) This is an idea I've been tossing around for a while and would
like some feedback on. How about a campaign to deface the sexist,
bigoted writing on all the bathroom walls at school? Not sure
exactly what to put over it, but it would be a great way to get a lot
of people involved in doing something that 100% of the school
population would see. Maybe it wouldn't last more than a week
before our defacement gets defaced, but it'll send a message about what
we're about!
So that's all, make sure you show up on Wednesday!
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| EDIT: Ok, so in addition to being on the NAACP day (which I'm
in), the wednesday meeting also falls on german club which will be
putting out most of the people who are interested. So
everybody! Remember, we won't really be doing much this wednesday
except seeing who shows up and meeting new people, but next wednesday
will be a real meeting and I'll disseminate (mmm tasty) info about the
recycling project.
Hello and welcome to the unfinished, pooptacular new Young Activists
blog. Hopefully this site will stay updated with info about the
club and the projects going on in it. If you have any questions
please drop a comment on this xanga, my xanga, or email me at
restate.my.assumptions@gmail.com .
We will be having our first meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Mr. Dugan's room (421).
The focus of this club is going to be
discussing and carrying out various progressive projects to
benefit our school and community. First up on the roster is going
to be a greatly expanded recycling program to include plastics and
aluminum cans. After that's been hashed out, everybody is *very*
encouraged to submit an idea for a project. If you can get some
support from others within the group then we'll get to working on
it.
This club isn't student council or national honor society. You
should join because you care about what you believe in, not because
it's going to look good on your college/scholarship application.
I founded it because I was really dissatisfied with the lumbering
inability of other clubs to do anything meaningful for the school and
community besides prom or dances. There aren't going to be any
officers. After it gets off the ground hopefully I won't have to
"lead" it anymore. Most of the details haven't been determined
yet because I want the members to make as many decisions as possible
about what happens in the club!
SO! If you're interested in doing something you believe in for
the benefit of your school and community, *please* come join us on
wednesday!
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