Upcoming events~

RATH: Revolutionary Art Thing, WSAC’s annual celebration of art and social justice
This year’s theme: Fabulous Feminist Film Fest
april 24-29

Sat&Sun 24-25th WSAC Yard Sale! movies! clothes! books and more! 10am-3pm, 2629 12th Ave S Mpls. Also stop by our friends’ sale at Tarnish & Gold that weekend from 8am-3pm: 1511 Marshall St NE Mpls.

Mon 26th Mental Health Advocacy Day. 10am-4pm, Coffman Front Plaza.

Tues 27th Sex Ed for Everyone screening and panel: WSAC’s homemade comprehensive & inclusive sex education videos, followed by a panel of filmmaker activists. Free food! 12-1pm, Coffman 202.

Thurs 29th “The Greatest Silence” screening: a documentary about rape in the Congo. Co-sponsored by Amnesty and STAND. Free pizza! 6pm in Coffman 202. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108730255829526#!/event.php?eid=115436811802728&ref=ts.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! See the attached RATH volunteer sign-up form and email wsac@umn.edu (do not reply to this email) if you are interested in helping us out! We especially need help at the yard sale, and there will be free food there for volunteers.

ZERO RECRUITMENT DAY: April 22 @noon: Join sds at the ROTC to say “don’t enlist, resist!” They will be marching to the Recruiting center on Washington from the ROTC to picket over the noon hour.

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT LOCATION CHANGE: The annual protest against gender violence and hate crimes will be at Hansen Hall Plaza on 19th and Riverside this year instead of at the Brian Coyle gym as previously announced. 6pm on April 23rd, free food and entertainment! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108730255829526.

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
April 23, 7:30 pm, Willey Hall, Westbank Auditorium.
$10, $8 students, proceeds go to a local women's shelter and women of the DR of Congo

Minnesota Actions: “No More Dollars for Afghanistan War! Bring the Troops Home Now!” (From the Women Against Military Madness listserve) Tuesday, April 13, 4:00 p.m. Office of Senator Klobuchar, 1200 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis. On or around April 15, the House of Representatives and the Senate will vote on the $33 billion dollar supplemental bill for the war on Afghanistan. The purpose of our actions is to urge our senators to vote against the war supplemental bill and for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Money needed to withdraw the troops can be taken from the bloated $708 billion defense budget being requested by President Obama for 2011, which is more than the combined defense budgets of all other countries in the world. It is imperative that we speak out at this time against the escalation of the war in Afghanistan and further assaults on Afghan cities and towns, which can only result in more bloodshed, misery, and death for U.S. soldiers and the people of Afghanistan, one of the poorest nations in the world. Our actions will include; 1) the reading of the names of some who have been killed in the war in Afghanistan; 2) throwing shoes at the occupation; and 3) a die-in. The action is patterned after the action at the White House in Washington D.C. by twenty-four Minnesotans during the last week in January. You can find articles and videos of the action on the Voices for Creative Nonviolence website at www.vcnv.org. Initiated by: the Minnesota Peaceable Assembly Campaign Committee. Endorsed by: WAMM. FFI: Email braun044@umn.edu or phone 612-522-1861.

INTERNATIONAL WORKER’S DAY MARCH! Join a coalition of immigrants’ and workers’ rights organizations to demand equal rights and legalization for all. May 1st at 2pm, starting at Martin Luther King Park (on Nicollet Ave between 41st & 42nd St). Endorsed by WSAC! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108730255829526#!/event.php?eid=115072578503304&ref=mf.

April 12, 2010 meeting notes!
• Evals: Space Appeal went well. We find out on friday. Vices to Verses also good but we have some concerns to relate to the organizers.

• next steps for appeal? mn daily.

• finance report: no more $$ for cosponsorships till fall 2010.

• what does this mean for Tarnish & Gold: we can fund them in the fall, not now.

• TBTN update: Meghann to speak? possibly. WSAC co-sponsor with $100. Sophie to pass out RATH fliers at event.

• Cheyenne: MN Trans Health and Wellness Conference: we can’t give $$$ but some of us will volunteer.

• Mental Health Advocacy update: Alice. WSAC has built this cosponsorship into our RATH! Grace to write Active Minds a check for $150 as previously agreed upon.

• RATH!
o need volunteers: see sign up sheet
o committee to meet 4/13 at noon and 4/16 at 2:15
o need donations, clothes line, hangers, tables, change&change box for yard sale
o need FB event pages for each event: Carla and Andrea.

• Zero Recruitment Day: 4/22 @noon @ ROTC, march to recruiting ctr on Washington
• need tabling volunteers leading up to RATH. Sign up on white board.

• MIRAC has asked us to endorse their May 1 Immigrant Worker’s Rights march…and we did!

• Pride: we booked table, need volunteers to design bags and table. Mark your calendars.

• Remember to keep the new, pretty log book when you have office hours!