March 3rd - Meeting

I hope the upcoming midterms aren't bogging you down too badly. Students for Global Change is in full swing for Mother Earth Week (MEW) for April 18th - 24th. Tonight at the meeting we're going to delegate tasks - we need people to come to help put together this wonderful week-long event of ours.

We'll be talking about visual displays (trash bags in quad, signs, promo materials), networking and getting people involved (we need presenters and workshops and informational displays), and overall generating hype for the event. We're trying to make Oswegostock happen at the end of the week, so we need people who know people in the music department who might be interested in performing at the event. It's going to be a big, fun hopefully all-day event.

In addition to talking about MEW, we're going to be talking about our awesome t-shirts that we're going to start purchasing. Come to add your input on the t-shirt design as it is now. We're also going to be doing a fundraiser selling lollipops, so if you're interested in getting a shirt but don't have money - no worries! If you grab a bag of lollipops to sell, you'll have the t-shirt paid off ASAP!

Finally, we'll be talking about our new social justice movement. It's most likely going to be an educational week near the end of April (a.k.a. the week after MEW) where we're planning on putting 3-D representations of poverty, war, genocide, and over social issues all over campus. This means that one day we're MOST LIKELY going to be dressing as hobos and spend the night in the concrete quad in our cardboard tents and then walk around class the next day all in our hobo gear talking about poverty. This will be a BLAST, I promise! More to come on that.

So, with all of that said, come out to tonight's meeting at 8 p.m. in Campus Center room 237. ALSO - TONIGHT AT 6 p.m. IN CAMPUS CENTER ROOM 209 - there will be a green kiosk informational meeting. Alisia Engle, the student association director of sustainability, will be talking about the Go Green Kiosk and signing up to put together environmental information. Contact her at engle@oswego.edu for questions. (There may be a possibility to get community service credit for helping with a campaign - ask Alisia for more information).

MOTHER EARTH WEEK will also have community service opportunities as we will need help putting together campus clean-ups. Let me know if you're interested in MEW but can't make it to the meetings.

Thanks, and hope you have a great day!