USAS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Starting Date: 04-25-2003
Ending Date: 04-27-2003

Address

Morgantown, West Virginia
United States

Description

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`-' `----'`-', the Mid-Atlantic USAS conference is coming up!
April 25, 26, & 27 in Morgantown, West Virginia
hosted by Students for Economic Justce of West Virginia University

Featuring DAVID REES, author of _Get Your War On_
(if you haven't yet, check out http://www.mnftiu.cc/)

(oh, and don't worry, crash housing will be available)

*************** REGISTER: E-MAIL organize@usasnet.org
WITH your name, your year of graduation, your school, your e-mail, your phone, your address, and your most recent campaign! *****************************

tentative conference agenda:

Friday Night: Registration: Movies/settling in/dinner on your own

Saturday:
9am breakfast

10am Welcome and USAS/EJC 101
10:30am Victory Panel
11:30am Workshop Block 1
1pm lunch
2pm David Rees presentation, discussion
3:30pm Strategy sessions
5pm Workshops Block 2
6pm dinner with speaker on sweatshops
7pm Culture Sharing
9pm Kegger/Major Rager

Sunday
9am Final strategy sessions/discussions
10am brunch
11am Goal Setting for Region (Each workshop/presentation/strategy
session posts its goals to the group and we discuss possible actions, I think?)
12:30pm Wrap up, thank yous, settle registration issues if necessary

yay, go outside and play, no more conference, yay.

workshops include:
- Quaker Peace Monitoring Training
- the Workers Rights Consortium
- Campus Living Wage Campaigns
- Global Water Crises
- Adelphia/Verizon
- high school activism
- Fair Trade Coffee/Chocolate
- NAFTA/CAFTA/FTAA
- Anti-Racist Organizing

*************** REGISTER: E-MAIL organize@usasnet.org
WITH your name, your year of graduation, your school, your e-mail, your phone, your address, and your most recent campaign! *****************************

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