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7:07 Introductions
7:09 FLOC Presentation
-Mariano’s story shows how unconcerned farmers can endanger the lives and
livelihoods of farmworkers and get away with violating federal labor laws
-Jim Wilkerson choose to pull Mt. Olive pickles from Duke in solidarity
with FLOC’s current campaign against the company, but is now considering
revoking that decision due to pressure from Mt. Olive
-Students are encouraged to write non-combative letters to Wilkerson in
support of his decision to pull Mt. Olive
-FLOC would like Duke to sponsor a picket at a Kroger store as part of an
ongoing campaign to picket at one store every Thursday until they stop
selling Mt. Olive. Nick Wood is main contact person for this campaign.
-Students at meeting filled out Kroger comment cards to ask them to remove
Mt. Olive products
-Contact info for FLOC – 489-4485 (office), flocnc@hotmail.com
-Meeting Wednesday at 7 in GA down under to plan our involvement in this
campaign
7:35 MLK rally
-There will be a one hour discussion at 10am on MLK to be planned by
Progressive
-Potential for a rally/SpeakOut, vaguely about social justice
-Topics: hate crimes/Mike Reedy, labor issues, potential DSG legislation on
hate crimes
-Target cultural groups for involvement
-Contact Pavithra, pv5, for more info
8:05 Charter and Constitution
-next meeting will ratify constitution by consensus
8:11 Campus Employment Task Force
-Creating a permanent task force of employees, students, and faculty to be
consulted about all aspects of campus employment
-Big issue = OUTSOURCING!!
-Will be handled through SERC, SERC meeting Tuesday at 10:30 in the alumni
lounge
8:15 Progressive joining JwJ
-$100 annual membership fee and will send representatives to bimonthly
meetings
-would have Progressive peeps go to coalition members events and members
come to our events
-some Progressive kids already represented on Worker’s Rights Board
-agreed by consensus to join JwJ
-Theresa would like every progressive student group at Duke to also join
JwJ, but group consensus was that this would cause logistical problems and
overrepresentation of Duke undergrads
8:25 Activities Fair
-Wednesday from 11-1, registration at 10:30
-passed around sign-up sheet, will table for entire time
-see Jonathan, jfh4, for Dirty South t-shirts
8:28 MLK Peace Rally in Raleigh
-MLK Gardens at 11:30 Saturday, March to Capital Bldg. And Rally
-Transportation is available, Allison or Gray will send an email
-Civil disobedience protest at Ft. Bragg
-Visit www.ncaw.org for more info
8:30 Peace Group Chartered
-Jilly will bring potential constitution for approval at next meeting
8:33 Farmworker Awareness Week
-Rural Health Coalition Meeting at 9pm in 114 Carr on 1/22 to plan events
8:35 USAS Report-back
-4 Progressive students went to USAS leadership retreat last weekend
-Indonesia Campaign
~an independent union trying to establish itself in a factory in Indonesia,
and there are allegations of union-busting
~WRC starting an investigation
~Natalie is sending a letter of solidarity to the workers with the picture
of us that we took at the meeting
-BJ&B Campaign
oat a BJ&B factory in the Dominican Republic all union organizers of an
independent union that is trying to form have been fired
ocampaign is heating up! (caliente!)
-Duke is being considered as a potential site for USAS national conference
this summer. would require that 8-10 people stay here to organize for it
-USAS is seeking new members of the international solidarity committee and
coordinating committee, see Natalie, nl12, for more information
8:42 Break for a Change Classes
-TAKE ONE
8:45 World Economic Forum Protest
-NYC, February 2-3
-more information at www.anotherworldispossible.com
-Jess will forward more info to the list
8:48 New Era Strike
-Workers at a New Era plant in Derby have been on strike for 6 months
-Duke has suspended our contract with New Era until the administration gets
independent confirmation of the acceptability of the working conditions in
the Derby plant
-Another plant in Bangladesh has also been identified as violating labor
standards, so should we pressure the administration to suspend the contract
until the labor issues are resolved there too?
-Contact Allison for more information, allison.brim@duke.edu
8:52 GROW training
-weekend trainings by the USSA is coming this semester, possibly on
February 15th
9:00 Durham Anti-War Coalition
-agreed to give $30 donation to organization
-this is Theresa again
9:03 Radical Rush
-talk to Michaela, mjk15
9:05 Next Meeting
1/27 (two weeks) at 7pm in 114 Carr, Natalie facilitates and Chris takes notes