CGSA Conference Meeting Notes: 3/4/07 Communities en Movimiento: Cultivating the Politics of Listening and Sharing Location: Sirena PellaroloŐs Phat Krib Facilitator: Ruben Mendoza Timekeeper and Harmony Keeper: Sirena Pellarolo Note-taker: Evelyn Rojo AGENDA 1. Review Mission Statement 2. Establishing rubric 3. Develop calendar 4. Committee Breakouts 5. Recruitment 6. Workshops/Themes 7. Call for papers 8. Constitution for CGSA MEETING 3/4/07 -Set up committee meetings/committee updates -Conference Reportbacks -Tasks (rubric, etc.) -Review Outreach effort/Needs -Workshops development (Moni suggests that we first work on this item) ORDER (1) Conference Reportbacks (10-15 minutes) (2) Committee Updates (10 minutes) (3) Set up committee meetings -JohnnyŐs committee meeting did not meet -Workshop: Thurs., 3/8, 7:30 -Fundaraising Đdid not meet -Logistics-3/7, 3:00, XiKano room -Outreach: (1) Need to send out Save The Date Outreach Committee needs to start making dist. List. Call for proposals (3/12): (2) Help! (MECHA, etc) Proposal: Next meeting -Sunday, 3/18 Barbecue at el Sereno Community Garden -11:00 a.m. Carne Asador is Johnny -12:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. -Open up/invite others (create a list of the following with contact info) Copwatch LA East Side CafŽ Casa del pueblo Harmony Circle Pico Youth Family Center El Centro de Mexico in Santa Ana Mayra-Mecha de Ventura College Boyle Heights Proyecto Jardin Semillas del Pueblo CSUN Mecha Irene Vasquez, CSU D.H. Pacoima Beautiful Alberto Dentana South Central Farm Tia ChuchaŐs CARECEN CHIRLA Jornaleros -Fundraiser: Julissa, Scott, and Frank (4) Tasks a. Review outreach effort/needs b. rubric etc c. workshop development (5) Announcements; Next Meeting separate email with all committee info. (meetings membership): Johnny will send out the different committee meetings of time and locations One person in each committee needs to contact everyone else for reminder -open-please join up/we need help! Rubric -Preliminary -Later: Proposals will help define more clearly -Participatory/interaction -Creative -Use space creatively -Link different spaces/activities -Listening/Sharing -Tighten Up Save the Date/CFPs: Hands on component; experiential Ą Non-profit vs. autonomous organizations Ą Community gardening *note: July 1st earliest to send our budget request Workshops Themes? Get community feedback on what people want Đpriority at our next meeting A) Indigenous poetry Muralism/Graffiti Art Chicano/a Hip Hop Conscious Chicano/a Music Community B) La otra compa–a/encuentros Permaculture Food/Nutrition Ą Food/Nutrition/Health/Holistic Healing/Spirituality Sexuality Literature - Critical Theory Community Organizing Parents (educational involvement); children Space open to any knowledge Something created right there Huge canvas; art based on themes End of day: Share what has been created/Shared Globalization Ą Women in Latin America Immigration; undocumented students; informed economy UCLA---Ideas org of undocumented students Connecting immigrant assimilationŃall kinds of assimilation/domestication Environmental Racism Militarization of schools & targeting of Chicano/a Chicano/a Grad Students-Theses Gender; sexuality Ą Impact of capitalism Ą Sexual exploitation & objectification Ą Impact of organized religion Ą Grassroots Slingslots, self-defense, barricades Ą Copwatch Ą Harmony Ą Failures (S.C. Farm) & Success (Atenco, etc) Media -Representation/manipulation/literacy -Making our own (zines, YouTube, independent media, etc.) Single Mothers-organizing school Ą Disrupting routines Ą Alt. ways of learning/communicating/languages (i.e., dark room; posters/visual (workshop space) Network/Links/Connect Invisible theater Theater of the oppressed FTS Manual (include networking info, self-defense, recipes, remedies, useful info)Ńthis is sort of in place of traditional conference booklet that just has workshop times and places. Ą Participants: Bring something to share (recipes, remedies, poems, etc.) as part of registration process.