[Educationforall] FW: May 1st Coalition - 2010-04-13 Meeting Summary

Wed Apr 14 06:15:23 UTC 2010

Hi everyone!

Here's a brief summary of this week's meeting of the May 1st Coalition San Diego:

ROUTE & TIMES defined!! Meet at Chicano Park at 11am, depart at 12pm (noon), march on Logan Avenue, 16th Street (homeless join @ 16 & Island), left on Market Street, right on 1st Avenue, circle the building, arrive at 880 Front Street (Federal Building) at around 1pm.

Several other points were discussed:

- a Plan B (as in "Broadway") route was defined in case there is a large number of people marching;
- logistics committee will notify San Diego Police about the event;
- media committee: press release text proposal was submitted to group discussion (improvements to be made - Bruno, Ivan, Cynara);
- need to collect funds for printing flyers & posters (America G. started the collection);
- a call for a 'spending boycott' on May 1st was approved by a 9-6 vote;
- proposal to protest in front of a bank; (Norma)
- discussion on AB 540 ('California Dream Act');
- discussion about attacks on UCSD professor/activist R. Dominguez; (Rick might contact him?)
- Jeeni had a proposal about the name of the event, but she had to leave early;
- outreach: planning pre-May-1st student forum at City College (Diana, contact person);
- report back from Centro Cultural de la Raza and evening event; call for artists (Fernanda, contact person);

Committees should be meeting on their own this week to advance on various organizational tasks. If you would like to join a committee, simply call or send an e-mail to its members and get on board!

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LOGISTICS COMMITTEE (route coordination, timetable, security, talk to SD Police, list of speakers, sound system, stage, tables, music, chant sheets etc)

Norma Villegas: 619-623-0712, tianormalita at gmail.com
Jeeni Criscenzo del Rio: 760-525-1915, jeenicdr at gmail.com
Fernanda Rios: 619-742-2581, brujita8106 at yahoo.com
Ken Eby-Gomez: 951-252-3758, sxeken at riseup.net
Rick Trujillo: 619-691-1257, emmasheric at cox.net
Union del Barrio contact for coordination: clfv_sd at uniondelbarrio.org

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OUTREACH COMMITTEE (responsible for announcements at events, churchs, communities, schools; flyers & posters, funding, internet, open mic night, phone calls, City College forum etc)

Abel Macias: 408-219-8891, abel.macias at yahoo.com
America Gomez: 619-890-8457, amegomez at gmail.com
Antonio Perez: 619-292-5898, papasconchesse at hotmail.com
Avery Wear: 464-7056, isoavery at gmail.com
Adam Steinberg: 619-496-1793, pearlcrash911 at yahoo.com
Miriam Aguilar Escobar: 619-894-1113, maescobar at dslextreme.com
Enrique De La Cruz: 619-948-8345, elcucui09 at hotmail.com
William Vera: 619-408-7520, vagopower at hotmail.com
Diana Lizalde: 619-647-2595, diana_lizalde at yahoo.com
Erik Campos: 619-392-2330, ecampos at ucsd.edu
Cynara Kidwell: 619-208-0567, cynarad at yahoo.com
Rafael Bautista: 619-709-0942, rafada1 at yahoo.com

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MEDIA COMMITTEE (press release kit, Radio/TV media contacts via email, phone, fax, letter, Facebook etc, organize press conference, help with poster & flyers, video/audio/photo documentation of May 1st)

Ivan Penetrante: 619-370-1296, igpene at gmail.com
Bruno Ruviaro: 650-265-8316, bbttrr76 at gmail.com
Cynara Kidwell: 619-208-0567, cynarad at yahoo.com
Miriam Aguilar Escobar: 619-894-1113, maescobar at dslextreme.com
Pedro Estrada: pedro_estrada2001 at yahoo.com

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Things are coming along! On our way to a great May 1st in San Diego!

Bruno

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Next May 1st Coalition meetings:

April 20 2010
April 27 2010

Always 6-8pm, San Diego City College, room B-104

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=437177095331

Groups & organizations that have participated of one or more meetings:

Sí Se Puede
Union del Barrio
Education for All (EFA)
Border Angels
Colectivo Zapatista
MEChA Mission Bay High
MEChA de City College
MEChA de UCSD
Centro Cultural de la Raza
Gabriela Network San Diego
Beat / Mecha
Amikas.org
Veterans for Peace
NEAELL Caucus / SDSC
Unitarian Church (UUSB/SBSL)
California Young Democrats
Visionary Feminists (City College)
Latinos y Latinas en Acción
SDSU March 4th Committee
Anakbayan San Diego
SD Food Not Bombs
Anarchy! San Diego
ISSO SDMC
SPDP-Go-Team
International Socialist Organization (ISO)
Party for Socialism & Liberation
W.S.A.

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