April 8 Meeting Overview

   

ITEMS OF DISCUSSION:

1. MISSION PROPOSALS

  • Proposals on Crabgrass
  • Distribute to community
  • THOUGHTS:
  • De-politicize a bit, open to moderates
    “Making sure people don’t feel the doors are closed to them”
  • Emphasize equality

2. INTERNET/TECHNOLOGY HAPPENINGS

  • G-Mail Account
    • G-Mail/Google Horizontal Access
    • ACCOUNT: mpfreeschool PASSWORD: powers204
    • Create a tutorial about different applications of the account
  • Overhead Access
    • Powers Code: 75403
    • Other Buildings: Pick up phone, tell them you are a grad student and they will give you a code.

3. SUBCOMMITTEES

  • Add into agenda? Each committee has short, weekly blurb
  • Rotating subcommittee setup; multiple committees
  • No set membership; weekly time for people to work on task

4. COAL PLANT

  • Bay City Coal Plant Proposal
    • Website: mipowershift.org ; Bus Registration
    • Media Training Workshop @ 7:00pm in the Huron Room (UC)
    • Demonstration at 4:30 on Bay City
    • Crab Grass Thread

5. UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS

  • Take Discussion:
    • Emailed IWW in Grand Rapids; someone would teach a basics of unionizing class.
    • Involve Graduate Student Union
    • Subcommittee?
  • Rhizone Collective
    • Lansing on Friday & Saturday (April 17th & 18th)
    • Contact Merkel
  • North Star Center
    • Community center in Lansing
    • Contact Roberto (didn’t get much info about this one down)
  • Energy & Climate Bill
    • Talking to Granholm about recently proposed energy bills
    • Contact Chelsea H.
  • Library Thing
    • Online personal library database
    • Angie – online account
  • AMC
    • Conference in Detroit
    • End of June
    • Friday is last day to get a proposal in
    • Contact Angelo? (sorry if this is wrong)

NEXT MEETING:

Monday @ 9:00pm
Powers 200 for Coal Presentation

THINGS TO DO:
Create a solid definition of Free School
Poster Making (Trevor)
Printmaking, History of Radical Printmaking