[Climate Justice] 23 Sept Meeting Notes

[mrc12 at hampshire.edu]

Notes attached and pasted below (the ones attached are prettier)
Thanks to Dineen for taking them!

Climate Justice League 23 Sept 2013

21 Sept Sat	(already happened) Draw the Line and 5College Divestment Meeting
28 Sept Sat	Climate Action Now Conference 10-4 Springfield
1 Oct Tues	Students & Goliath Screening FPH MLH 8pm
18-21 Oct	PowerShift Conference 2013 in Pittsburg
30 Sept	        CJL Meeting: discussing plans for educating ourselves  
and local      schools

IMPORTANT THINGS:
	-if you want to go this Sat, there are 2 open seats so ***tell us  
now!*** Or if you have a car we can give you directions
-come to the meeting with ideas for things you want to learn and  
things you want to teach!
-tell the world about Students & Goliath Screening  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teRe-owVFi8 <- trailer

Meeting Notes

Introductions & Food

Recap for Sept 21 Draw the Line and 5 College Divestment Meeting
	Marched all over Amherst and to the TD Bank office
	Great brainstorming sesh after with 5Colleges: ideas like travelling  
?pants? for all the college?s divestment campaigns

Overview and Explanation of Divestment
	Every college has an endowment fund which is money they get from  
investments in companies and corporations. Divestment means not having  
money come from certain companies and corporations. In the 80?s when  
there was a campaign to end Apartheid in South Africa, divestment was  
a powerful tactic used by college students to end support for and  
therefore weaken Apartheid. The climate change movement is using this  
tactic once more ? college students now are making their schools  
divest from fossil fuel companies. Hampshire has already divested, and  
we are now supporting the Five College?s campaigns for divestment.

ClimateActionNow Conference
	http://climateactionnowma.org/climate-action-now-conference-2013/
this Saturday Sept 28th 10-4 in Springfield
Tracks include topics like Military and Industry Impact on Climate  
Change, Sustainable Communities, and Grassroots Organizing
	Keynote speaker: Jacqui Patterson from the NAACP

Students&Goliath Screening
	Oct 10 8pm Main Lecture Hall ? a week from tomorrow!
	Already on the events calendar
Flyering will happen later this week
	Sun or Mon chalking the ground
	Digest announcement ? Dineen

PowerShift Conference
	http://www.wearepowershift.org/conference/powershift2013
This year the annual PowerShift conference is in Pittsburg Oct  
18-21st. It will be a 10,000 student event teaching the youth how to  
work effectively and powerfully to make climate justice a success.  
Hampshire and the Five Colleges have students going, as well as  
transportation to get there. It costs $85 but if you want to go there  
is a possibility that the school can fund your attendance.

Last Year: another events recap
	Colleges Against Climate Silence Rally
	Keystone XL Rally in DC and Portland, Maine
	Westborough Direct Action with 350 and follow up Pipeline Teach-In at  
Hampshire
	Amherst College Divestment Open Mic

-This Semester-
	educating local schools <-lots of hype happening with this idea
	put on rallys
	screen movies every other week to educate and enthuse selves and school
		Josh: a screening of Thin Ice is happening soon stay tuned

Before/for Next Meeting
	Tell everyone about Students&Goliath Screening
	Bring ideas about what you want to
		a)learn more about in terms of Climate Justice so you are educated  
enough to educate others
		b)focus on for the presentation to the students


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