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Agenda for ENS meeting week 3
Posted on: Thu, 24/04/2008 - 23:35
Agenda for ENS meeting week 3
Hello everyone, At today's (Thursday the 24th) meeting it was decided that from now on ENS meetings should appoint a facilitator at the end the meetings. This allows that appointed facilitator to open a thread on the forum asking for proposals/motions, which will then be collated by that facilitator and become the agenda for the next meeting. I was delegated to be the facilitator for next week's meeting. So I'm opening this thread for proposals/motions. When writing your proposal/motion think about specific things we need to do to realise it (e.g. it should ask for delegates or contain suggested dates and meeting times if appropriate). You do not need to add announcements or general points to this thread. They can be raised during the open discussions that will be had at every meeting. Cheers, Alex |
The Website subgroup believes that it is vital that we have a summary article to use on the website and possibly on other outreach for the campaign (e.g. Badger, flyers). This article should contain:
This article should be roughly 500 words long, and the meeting should delegate at least one person to write it.
The article should be ready in a week.
hi. i cant actually come to the meeting tomorrow, but please can you discuss adopting this stucture for the future ENS talks and reading groups, most importantly about changing the days when the groups meet
1. The reading group would meet THURSDAYS and read a certain book, or a few texts, and discuss it amongst themselves.
2. Some people in the reading group meetings would delegate 2 or three people to meet up onFRIDAYS (not mondays) to organise a talk on the subject of the texts they had read for the following week, and book a room as well as perhaps some other speakers who were not part of the reading group to talk on a similar theme. the meeting to organise this would be the monday "talk organising meeting"
3. this talk would be advertised by the comms group on FRIDAY (not mondays), having been informed of the necessary info by the talk organising group
4. the talk would happen on TUESDAYS (not wednesdays) and hopefully lots of people would come listen to it, learn a lot of stuff they didnt know before and be inspired to dedicate themselves even more to the campaign. then after the speakers (which ideally wouldnt go on too long anyway, maybe just 30-45mins) we'd have an (ideally) amazingly stimulating open discussion about the theme of the talk, at the end of which a vauge feeling of "we all pretty much agree on the basics of this, isnt it great that we're all coming together in such an amazing way" would be generated and we'd all go away happy.
My arguments for this proposal, which i hope can be noted, are:
A. wednesday afternoon is a shit time for any kind of event on campus given that so many people have half days
B. the comms group should meet on friday because its the day after the main campaign meetings, so all the issues will be fresh in everyones minds, and people who live on campus can spend the weekend distributing leaflets, putting up posters and just talking to people. I never understood why it met on mondays anyway, that always meant there were only a couple of days to advertise everything, its just much less effective. First years are more likely to come to stuff cos they have less academic work to do, and they're all on campus all weekend just waiting for someone to come and advertise shit to them
C. At the moment the reading group only seems to have the function of self-education for the individuals that attend it, rather than mass education for all students affected by the issues the group reads about. Mass education about these issues is something crucial to the sucess of the campaign, because without it no more students will see the need to get involved in the campaign, and it will wither away into nothingness, much like the "capitalist state" after the "proletarian revolution" that will "inevitably" happen as a result of the "irreconcilable" antagonisms "inherent" to the "system". (sorry for going off on such an anti-marxist tangent, no offense is meant to anyone who still believes that any of these concepts bear some kind of actual relation to empirical reality. if hope lies in the proles then we're all pretty much fucked, cos most of them dont seem to care, and the various marxist groups trying to inspire them to do so are less than a joke)
i'm sure some people will have arguments against this, and i know that as i wont be there my vote wont count, but if you could at least discuss this and make some kind of decision that would be great
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