Minutes from Meeting on April 16th

ISWI Meeting: April 16, 2O1O

Time Effectiveness at Meetings
- Sub-committees:
1. Early Summer Research Committee (legal resources, lawyers for the ordinance)
2. Outreach/Media Committee (compiling a master list of contacts with students, faculty, townspeople, etc., and attached to each name, include notes explaining what they have done, ex: Basler- Sociology professor at Amherst and spoke at the April 1st Hampshire Panel); (handling the media aspects of the group such as the blog, website, Facebook, etc.)
3. Events Committee

- Agenda: opening it up to membership to add/make suggestions to the agenda for meetings via e-mail; goal is to keep the discussions more focused

- Compile all the minutes of our past meetings and quickly run down everything so we can all be on the same page

- Q&A formatted discussion so all members can give input, we can all listen to the different perspectives of every member, of every level of participation

- Worker's Rights Workshop on May 7th @ Hampshire

- Dinner & Banner-Making before May Day: discuss structure and plans for next year

- May Day: set up a table in downtown Amherst to speak to local people, hand out cards with our contact info