September 20th, 2005 General Meeting Notes Recorded on: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Associated with: DAWN General Assembly Meeting DAWN Meeting Notes for Sept 20th 2005 ### ROLES: ### Facilitators: Dave and Malachy Notes: Ryan Stack: Amy Time: John ### REPORT BACKS: ### PALESTINE FEEDER MARCH: Farragut park 9:30 10:30 AM Then march to Elipse. Following the UFPJ/Answer marching there will be a tent on the Monument grounds with interactive art, education and materials. Monday March on Congress - cni Center for the National Interest is sponsoring this. ENDORSEMENTS FROM JO: Jo got National Writers Union and DC Labor Counciltwo to issue endorsements for the 9-24 event. Labor Unions feeder march will be at AFL-CIO at 10 am. Then march to Mall. MGJ: This weekend is also the World Bank / IMF protest as well. They are tying these messages together. A couple actions: MGJ feeder march from Dupont at 11:30 will march down to Merle Park via the World Bank or alternate route (if closed off.) Rally is permitted, the march is not. On Sunday, there will be "Adopt an Intersection" to try to slow down the World Bank delegates from getting to the World Bank. HOUSING AND LOGISTICS: DAWN is committed to working on housing for people on the 9-24 event to get housing for people that are coming from out of town. Please post if you can take people in. Post at septemberaction.org or unitedforpeace.org. The Convergence Center also needs help for staffing. Volunteer at St. Stephens. LISTSERV: DAWN listserv is going to change from yahoo to Mutual Aid. There will be a major listerv project on the 24th to get new email addresses. We will be asking for help gathering them. DCRESL: Last Wednesday at the Unitarian Church of Arlington, there was a forum about the possible return of the draft and recruitment in our schools. Many Virginia groups did a huge about of work promoting this event. The audience was really engaged and there were many questions. Many people were interested in doing counter recruitment work. We set a date for our first organizing meeting. Go to DAWN's website for information about how to get involved in DCRESL. WHITEHOUSE PROTEST: Yellowcakewalk.net GALLOWAY: The Galloway speaking tour is underway. He will be in DC and Speaking with Camilo Mejilla and Cindy Sheehan. Date time and location: 7 pm First Congregational Church on Saturday. JEWISH FEEDER MARCH: There will be a Jewish feeder march to the 9-24 event. Email pxbenson at gmail dot com to get more info on joining up. CAFE MAWONAJ NEW ORLEANS SOLIDARITY: Several New Orleans solidarity missions are being run by the Black Panther Alliance. They are going down to help again on Oct. 1st. Cafe Mawonaj is still accepting donations. New Orleans Indymedia is a good place to get info about local activist efforts to help the region recover. OUTREACH for 9-24: Flyering Pre-Rally and other outreach. You can drag for volunteers at the convergence center. Friday flyering at U street and 13th Street. 5:30 - John Wednesday flyering at Columbia Heights 5:30 - Katie Woodley Park 5 pm on Thursday - Ryan Union Station 8 to 10AM - day TBA - contact Karen Kalorama Recreation Center needs a bunch of flyers. Flyers are downloadable. Yikes McGee will sponsor the table. Tabling is 10 AM onward. Who can table on Saturday? We could hand out a flyer with a pretty comprehensive list of events. Septemberaction.org has this in electronic form. Collection of Signatures and Email addresses and Tabling. If you want to help out on Saturday Meet at 9:30 on Saturday at Farragut North on K street to try to cover the various feeder marches with signature people. Pat Elder is in charge of donations buckets and they also need volunteers. What to do with newbies in Subsequent meetings. ### BREAK OUTS: ### There were no breakouts ### PROPOSALS: ### DC TO NEW ORLEANS CARAVAN: A friend went down and is pretty shocked at the relative lack of support from the progressive community. Wants to form a caravan to go from DC to New Orleans and help. They may need help with that and we may be able to do something if we are convinced we are more useful than a burden down there. Organize caravans to go down on Sunday. Asking for a level 1 endorsement. **** Level 1 endorsement PASSES %) **** 9-24 DAWN CONTINGENT: Dawn should have a contingent in the 9-24 march. We would organize people from DC to march as a group. We would want to raise our issues and work together as a group. Does this add or detract from using our manpower to further the listserv signatures gathering idea. ***** Passes without objection ***** WHITEHOUSE PROTEST: DAWN could support yellowcakewalk.org guy who stays down at the Whitehouse and makes fun of Bush. He makes connections with a lot of folks. He could use some more moral support. Make them laugh instead of getting in their faces. There is a guy that shows up as Nixon. Erik has signs in 60 languages! Saturdays from noon to dark. GALLOWAY EVENT: Cindy Sheehan, George Galloway and Camilo Mejilla --> $250 dollars in DANW tickets/support is proposed in addition to our previous level 2 support. **** 6-9-4 proposal FAILS to Pass **** POST 9-24 PUBLIC MEETING PROPOSAL: A meeting after September 24th to gather in the DC folks who are coming to activism for the first time. Allow people to talk about their experiences. Short presentations about what DAWN is. No proposals and other type of business. The working groups will do presentations at the end. This will be set for next Tuesday at AFSC if no better place can be secured . 75% of meeting would be a discussion. **** Passes 16-2-2 **** ### FACILITATORS FOR NEXT WEEK: ### Zach and Jim