Next Meeting:  9:30P Wednesday, 1/27/99 at Tressider Union, Sequoia Room

ACTION ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:

• Special Fee Preparation
• Public Service Student Organizations Fund (to finance a retreat for coordinators to build community and capacity -- YEAH! )

• Conference Rough Format
• Retreat Possibilities
• More Thoughts from all you RAD PEOPLE

• Retreat Destinations, Dates, etc. (because we need to apply for the funding now)

All Notes will be available at http://www.stanford.edu/group/aware (and please let me know if I should add something)

Thanks to everyone that participated in the meeting.  I think we were all very happy to see such a good turn out and the positive, hopeful spirit we all had for the potential of this Alliance.

For those that were not able to make it, I hope that you will be able to join us next time as we continue to develop the relationships amongst the groups.  Contact me if you have any additional Questions.

Everyone at the meeting shared what they would like to see (tangible functional things) from the Alliance.

Here are some of the ideas that we had:
 

1. Know what other groups are doing.
2. Big, collaborative event for all groups, once or twice a year.
3. Provide people-power and increased visibility for each other on important issues--more importantly, to PROACTIVELY look for ways we can involve other groups in each other's work...not just passing out flyers or showing but really incorporating each other into programming.
4. Alliance Lists, Alliance Coordinator Lists
5. Regular Meetings with Representative from Participating Groups
6. Development of Real Community Within Alliance -- Friendships and Faces add so much to everything we do together
7. Maintain Umbrella-Like structure--not to exist as a new entity, separate from pre-existing groups.
8. Reach-out to additional people in all areas

1. Support groups trying to get Special Fees (to support their organization and support Alliance work which each group's Special Fee [or Program Board Funding] will help fund)
2. Conference in the Early aimed mainly at Freshmen, to Disorient them and get them thinking about Real Issues and learn about what groups are really doing to promote activism (a counter, if you will, to the Stanford Bubble and all the hype and weirdo energy of Freshmen Orientation.  Groups will plan events/panels discussing issues they are working on...and maybe get outside speakers to talk about issues as well.  YEAH!
3. Working with Labor Conference to deal with issues of minorities, females, prison workers, etc in the labor market
4. Before School Retreat for coordinators/representatives to get to know each other and develop bonds and community that will help collaboration efforts throughout the year.
5. Use web calendar to share events with rest of group:  http://campus-calendar.stanford.edu/aware
6. Bi-Weekly Meetings on Wednesday Nights at 9:30.  Additional Meetings as Necessary.
7. Let other people know this Alliance is for real.  Get them to come if they are interested in this kind of thing.

• .Environmental Justice:  work w/ MEChA on Strawberry Worker's Campaign
• .Investment / Corporate Responsibility

• .Police Brutality
• .Cement Factory, Environmental and SocialJustice in EPA

• .Labor Issues and Conference
• .Campus Living Wage

• .Cross-Cultural, Multi-Cultural Outreach

• .Police Brutality and Human Rights in the United States

ADDITONAL GROUPS PARTICIPATING
SAC - Stanford Advocates for Children
Art for Peace

STILL SEEKING REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL GROUPS INTERESTED