Columbia Nader Coalition

Agenda

Report-Backs

1. Total Request Live, September 29
2. Washington Square Rally, September 30
3. Boston Super-Rally, October 1
4. Boston Debate Protest, October 3 (?)

Brief discussion of Nader appearance Friday.

Discussion: Abortion, Al Gore, and the Nader Campaign

Break Up into Groups

1. Publicity / Media
2. Teach-in
3. Radical Action

Next Meeting: Wednesday, October 10th, 8pm, 413 Kent Hall. Speaking: Dean Loren, Green Party candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, 15th District of NY
Teach-In: Wednesday, October 17th, 7:30pm, Location TBA.

Useful Information and Announcements

• Nader will be at Columbia this Friday, October 6th, at 8:30pm in the Lerner Auditorium! Volunteers are needed to help ush (or whatever it is that ushers do). Columbia Political Union will be doing a voicemail and mass email, but we need to poster. More information during today's meeting.
• Please try to have free time on Election Day to hand out poll cards at the polls and provide other last-minute help. As Columbia has a two-day recess for Election Day, no one should have class and so we're looking for a large amount of help to come from Columbia.
• Tabling for Nader is being done by the newly-formed Harlem for Nader group at City College and on 125th & Lex. Anyone who can help would be much appreciated. Contact Candice Rivas, work: 212/339-0447, home: 718/597-3174, email: sosa@latino.com
• The Columbia Political Union student debate is October 23rd, in the Roone Arledge Cinema in Lerner.
• If you have had trouble with the Board of Elections and registering to vote, or if you have not yet registered, please contact Mike Castleman, mlc67 or 3-2151.
• The West Side Green Party is holding a house party this Sunday, October 8, from 4-6pm at the apartment of Julia Willebrand, 225 W. 84th Street Apt. 1B. Speaking will be Erin DeOrnellas, a local Green who went on a clandestine trip to Burma to teach conflict resolution to minority ethnic groups working in opposition to the state's totalitarian regime. Suggested contribution is $25, but you're free to give what you can - any contribution or none is fine. RSVP to Julia, 212/877-5088.
• Sweatshop workers from Nicaragua and NYC, along with the National Labor Committee's Charlie Kernaghan, will be speaking in the Earl Hall auditorium this Friday, October 6, at 5:30pm. There will be an anti-Kohl's action on Long Island on Saturday, October 7. To ride on the bus, meet at the 116th gates at 9:00am. For more info, contact Ginger, gsg15 or 3-6638.
• Anyone with signed petitions, please give them to Mike after the meeting.
• Nader will be at Hunter College Auditorium, 69th & Lexington, this Saturday, October 7, between 12 and 2, as part of a two-day conference on "Independent Politics in a Global World". Tickets are $5 for students. Call the Nader office, 212/353-3111.
• The Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing will hold a community hearing on Wednesday, October 18, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in Davis Auditorium of Schapiro Hall, Room 412. At this hearing, students, faculty, alumni and staff of Columbia University, and other appropriate individuals, are invited to present their views on the University's ethical and social responsibilities as an investor. For more information, contact the Office of the Secretary, 211 Low, or Lily Parshall llp15.