SFSU Anti-War Student Meeting- ISO Rears its Head Again

The email for the event is below. Both the email sender and the contact for the event are members of the ISO.

Student activists in the area should consider coming to network and organize regionally. But notice how the decision making process is clearly laid out and explained, a wise concession of the ISO after everything that went down at the UCB conference in November. Now that we know what is up this time, lets be prepared in advance and not let anything fishy happen.

And please ISO members, no comments that this is "red-baiting" or "reds under the bed paranoia" or "ruining movement unity." These will not be accepted because we heard all those cards played the first time around and they won't work anymore. This message is a heads up!

Let's keep the movement growing and not impeded by any group trying to dominate!

>From: Kravitz4me [at] aol.com (by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit [at] igc.org>)
>
>Hi All
>
>This is an update concerning the regional student orgnizing meeting
>scheduled to take place on Friday, April 19th. Yesterday was a busy
and
>inspiring day as students all across the country demonstrated in a
National
>Day of Action to commemorate the Deir Yassin massacre and to call for
an
>end to all university investments from Israel. Because of the high
level of
>activity Bay Area and other California students were involved in, the
>agenda setting meeting at San Francisco State was small, but
productive.
>Five members from San Francisco State's Students for Peace group were
in
>attendance and brainstormed a preliminary agenda and decision making
>procedure.
>
>Time and Location:
>Friday, April 19
>Time: meeting will be 3-5:30 pm, dinner and signmaking will follow
after
>Place:San Francisco State University, 19th and Holloway, SF CA, in
Jack
>Adams Hall in the Cesar Chavez Student Center
>
>Meeting Purpose:
>
>The purpose of the April 19th meeting is to A.) give students from
around
>California the opportunity to share their experiences in organizing
against
>the war B.) organize a student contingent for the April 20th anti-war
>demonstration with banners, signs, drums, and whatever people want to
do to
>make our presence at the demonstration known, and C.) to establish a
>regional California student network as part of a broader national
network
>organized at the Colombia University student anti-war conference in
>February.
>
>This network would not be representative of the whole student anti-war
>movement per se, but would be a launching pad for coordinated actions
and
>events and will be essential to building a national movement. The
United
>States military is organized and has proven its brutality in
Afghanistan
>and Palestine. Now it wants to invade Iraq. With a California network,
>students organized to stop the war drive will be able to have a
greater
>impact against the very organized brutality of the United States
>goveernment.
>
>Proposed Procedure:
>
>The proposed decision making procedure is a simple majority voting
process
>with a series of rotating facilitators, one for each agenda point. The
way
>this works is that each agenda point will be moderated (i.e., people
will
>be asked to raise their hands and will be called on to speak), on a
>time-limited basis. When the time period is up, proposals will be
decided
>on by vote. A simple majority will decide the direction of the vote.
This
>is only a proposed procedure. If people want to make decisions a
different
>way, I must know by Wednesday, April 17th, so that we can plan the
meeting
>accordingly and take everyone's input into account.
>
>Proposed Agenda:
>
>Okay, here is goes....remember, this is a proposal..if people have
other
>ideas , please reply to this email by Wednesday, April 17th, so that
>appropriate chages may be made. I know that is not alot of time, but
next
>week will be MAD BUSY as we all know and if we want this meeting to
run
>smoothly and be as powerful as possible, us in Students for Peace need
to
>have at least a couple of days to absorb and work through input.
>
>1.) Performance by Monica E.( a student here at SF State who does
political
>performance pieces, as kind of a warm up)
>
>2.)Introductions and campus reportbacks
>
>3.)Network Building
>
>4.)Proposals
>
>5.) Dinner, housing, and signmaking for April 20th.
>
>Contacts
>
>***for general turnout, information, or questions about the agenda and
>procedure, Leticia Arellano- leticiaarellano [at] hotmail.com,
(415)346-8418
>
>*****for housing, Helia moon8883 [at] aol.com
>
>P.S...PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU"RE COMING! If you want housing reply
to
>this email by Wednesday, April 17.
>Thanks, and see you on April 19th!
>
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>
>Students For Peace @ San Franciso State University
>A Coalition of Student groups and Faculty dedicated to building a
movement
>against the US launching a "war on terror" both abroad and at home.
>
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>
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>