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Feminist Majority
10:00 PM Smith

Angelica's letter writing campaign, next week on 31st, 1st, 2nd
We should sell tee shirts as well

Open Mic coming up, we should sell stickers at the door so that people are more likely to pay enterance fees.

11/8 Womyn's Center Opens

11/30 Open Mic. Should we try to combine with World AIDS day, which is the next day?

12/7 Feminist Scholar from Duke will speak on campus.

12/10 Human Rights Day

Clothes Line Project?
A project that uses shirts with statistics and sayings to raise awareness about domestic violence
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Action: Chalk the names of victims
decorate the trees with purple ribbons
have people wear purple shirts
chalk statistics
Meet Sunday at 4:00 to helpl do some of these things.

Feminst Majority General Body Meeting
October 2, 2007
Tuesday 10:00 PM
Smith Common Room

Agenda:
Love Your Body Week
Vote on Unity House Affiliation
Announcements

Love Your Body Week
Committees Met and began sorting out details for there specific projects. The committees again are:
Banner: Laura, Kristina, Claribel
Nutrition and Health Information: Lindsey
Information on Loving Your Body: Rachel and Ashley
Movie Night: Ashley and Angelica
Display: Rachel, Laura, Yalidy and Heather
Updates on Love Your Body Week:
Sex Toy and Masturbation Workshop:
Meagan, from Mykos, will be coming again, she's tentatively planned for Oct. 18th, a Thursday, at 8:00. We should begin looking into other subjects that she could talk about during her workshop, such as fun with partners, safe sex, etc.
Display:
Unfortunately, the Women's Center will not be fully operational by the time of Love Your Body Week. Tristan will look into possibly having the Display be in the LGBTQ center. People can begin sending pictures showing how they love their body by either sending them to Yalidy's mailbox or by emailing them to yamatos@conncoll.edu. Be sure to tell your friends!!!
Movie Night:
The Movie night is currently schedule for Tuesday, Oct. 16th. There will be pizza and a discussion afterwards, but the exact movie has not yet be finalized.
Vote on Unity House Affiliation
After much discussion about the benefits and responsibilities of becoming an official Unity House club at this percise point in time, we decided to delay the decision until December, when we would be electing new Co-Chairs who would have to bear much of the responsibility of being responsible to Unity House. If you have any questions about this decisions, please talk to either Yalidy, Claribel, Heather or Tristan.
Announcements:
Feminst Majority will be working in conjunction with Planned Parenthood on a petition and Letter campaign to pressure the Connecticut Senators to make birth control more affordable. We have already collected 200 petition signatures, but we can do more! For more information about this campaign, please talk to Angelica.
Facilitator Training:
The week after Love Your Body week, Monday Oct. 22, Tristan will do a 20-30 minute presentation about faciliation so we can learn how to run more effective meetings so that we can have time to discuss current events, feminist issues etc. in addition to our awesome plannings.
Notes by Tristan

Feminist Majority, Tuesday Sept. 25th
10:00PM Smith Common Room

Harvest Fest:
Diva Cups
We can't sell them because we can't get enough from the Health Center, but we can offer information about them and offer sign ups
Tee Shirts
We have them and they look awesome. We'll be selling them for $12
Harvest Fest Sign Ups
See email for details and how to sign up

Question about the Rights and Responsibilities of being an Unity Club and Whether We Want to be one
We had a discussion about the positives and negatives of becoming a Unity club, right now it looks like we would prefer not to be an official Unity Club, but still retaining strong contacts with other Unity Clubs. We will be voting on this next week, so come vote!

Facilitation
We want to continue our tradition of having open discussions on women, gender, sex, sexuality and feminism during our meetings after we have finished all our business. In order to make this an easier process, we'll look into having everybody go through some facilitation training, so that we can have productive discussions. If you want to get a head start on learning about facilitation, go here:

Love Your Body Week
Committees need to start meeting!!!! Here are the committees, please contact everyone in your committee:

Make a banner: says you're beautiful, incorporates bodies as letters
Laura, Kristina and Claribel will work on the banner

Nutrition and Health Information: Lindsey will work on this issue

Information on Loving Your Body: Rachel and Ashley will work on this issue

Movie Night: Ashley and Angelica

Collage: Rachel, Laura, Yalidy, Heather will work on this

Future Project?: Birth Control Availability
Birth Control prices have gone up because of a change in US tax laws that no longer exempts colleges from certain protections for selling Birth Control at affordable prices. At Connecticut College the price has jumped $10 this year from $15 to $25.
There is a national campaign to make Birth Control more affordable. Connecticut Senator Dodd is on a health committee that will make influential decisions about this, so he needs to be pressured. Planned Parenthood is launching a petition and letter writing campaign, which we should support and work on.

Announcements:

Self Defense Classes:
ConnColl will be offering Self-Defense Classes in November at a very low price. They will be three classes, Nov. 3rd, Nov. 10th, Nov. 17th Contact Angelica for more information.

Global Leadership Summit: Brown University, Providence Rhode Island
Saturday Oct. 20th, 07
www.feministcampus.org/leadership/brown

Southern Leadership Summit
Oct. 4-8th
Tulane University, New Orleans Louisiana.
www.feministcampus.org/leadership

Posted by Tristan