November 3, 2008

         Committees---IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING A PART OF A COMMITTEEE EMAIL ME!!! The committees are starting to plan events for next semester

o       Red Ball/ AIDS awareness week

§         Madeline

§         Kevin

§         Monica

o       Anti-Torture

§         John

§         Leigh

§         Sarah

§         Cliff

-         Things left for the semester

o       Documentary

§         Jeff will reserve a room

§         Next week we will flyer

o       Holiday Party!!

October 27, 2008 Minutes

Come Next Week to work on next semester!! Committees! Yay!

• Hunger banquet went well!
• Documentary:
• Will start advertising the week of the 10th
• November 18th is the date
• Anti-Torture
• Pushing it back to next semester
• Have it for an entire week
• Maybe have a debate?
• “Taxi to the Dark Side”
• Would have to buy rights
• Controversial
• Make a sub-committee
• Books to prisoners
• Women’s prison near Raleigh, and one near Richmond
• Need confirmation
• We can either go ourselves or find an organization
• The Red Ball
• For AIDS awareness—should work on this year
• Could make it part of a bigger AIDS awareness campaign
• Focus on this as part of something else—send individual invites to everyones PO
• Start a committee
• Silent auction to raise money
• Make shirts for it to raise money
• Student Documentaries for Next Semester!
• Come next week with ideas!

October 6, 2008 Minutes

• Hunger Banquet!
• Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 6:30 PM
• Dividing up everyone in three groups—we will get the food from Aramark or Campus Kitchen
• We are partnering with VSC
• Putting out table tents with facts to get people interested
• 40 people ish
• Marketing:
• Word of mouth
• Tables
• Talking to departments (international studies, sociology)
• Putting up a banner—VSC has reserved locations
• Something in the OGB in the week before
• Someone put it on the Student (Jeff)
• Events during
• Short clips playing
• Looking for informative videos (Madeline)
• What can you do now
• Students talking about what you can do now (Contact Melissa)
• Focus more on Winston-Salem issues
• Contacting someone from the food bank of Winston-Salem (Madeline will ask her friends, leader from Campus Kitchen)
• Location: the autumn room, possibly Benson, VSC is checking this week
• Food: Aramark will either donate or Campus Kitchen might be able to supply the food as a partnership
• Ways to get involved
• Have sign ups for things like the Samaritan Inn etc afterwards
• Will have an RSVP System but a walk ins welcome!
• Donations box instead of having someone pay—donations optional and giving volunteer opportunities
• Getting personal stories for everyone or read stories?
• Ordering the groups by the name?
• Bring a story next week!!

Minutes from September 29, 2008:

• Hunger Banquet
• Where should we do this?—Benson
• How do we get the food?—Jeff will contact Aramark
• VSC will be involved
• Publicizing Amnesty?
• OGB: bringing up different topics each day
• Come Help Amnesty Plan for the Hunger Banquet!
• Taylor will make a flyer to get people to come to the next meeting
• Flyer on Friday and Monday AM—keep in eye out on the listserve to find out where and when to pick up flyers! 201 Poteat!
• Madeline will Chalk on Monday Morning
• EVERYONE BRING A FRIEND NEXT WEEK!!
• There will be food and drinks!
• Documentaries!
• We have one
• Shooting for Peace
• DeTamble in Tribble—Jeff will do that
• As We Forgive
• Reconciliation for the Rwandan Genocide
• October 8 at 7:30 at Forsyth Country Day School
• Hurricane Relief Concert
• Tomorrow at 7:00 in Brendle
• 9:00 tonight Documentary on HBO!!
• About torture
• Torture
• What causes is this for?
• Fund?

Minutes from September 22, 2008:

Amnesty International Minutes for September 22, 2008
Forum is Friday! “Pro-Humanitate In Action”
o 7-8 People
o We have pictures
o Will send something to Wake TV for the Pit
o Make flyers and dorm storm on Thursday!
 Babcock and Luter: Brian and Sajid (Thursday)
 Johnson, Bostwick Collins: Monica and Madeline
o Come and Bring friends!
o I will send out flyers

• Voices on the Rwandan forgiveness after genocide
o Flyer!
o Forsyth County Day School
 5501 Shallowferd Road
o Wednesday October 8 at 7:30
o “As we Forgive”
• Meredith Fraizer: Human Relations Director in W-S
o Housing discrimination etc
o Want to have discussion on the candidate’s position on civil and human rights
o In October—will have more details next week!
• Documentaries
o Starting in October

o • Hunger Banquet
o Still waiting for details with VSC
o Since we have had one in the past, we will lead
o October 22 as a tentative date 6:30-7:30

• Benefit Concert for Earthquake victims
o Tuesday September 30 at 7:30
• “Girls Fight Back”
o 90 minute interactive program
o Speaker teaches self defense
o Wednesday night at 7 in Annenberg
o Anyone welcome!

• Students Against Torture
o We are waiting to hear back from facilities
o November 19th

Minutes from September 15, 2008:

• Forum “Pro humanitate in Action” 5:00-6:00 in Pugh on September 26!

• All Set up!
• Devin Cain, Elisabeth Holby, Lincoln Wheeler
• VSC will talk about it (2-3 people)
• Ask for pictures (send them to petrm6@wfu.edu)
• 7-8 participants giving a few minutes talk for an activity that they have been

• Documentary

• Sarah is waiting for one email
• If necessary to pay, Philosophy can help
• First weeks in October and November (maybe after)
• Two Wake students to look into that
• Kevin Duncan and Kristen made a documentary in Ghana about child services—two different movies
• First one on October 7th

• Hunger Banquet around October 16th or so

• Money?
• Work with VSC because they have a budget
• Philosophy department—contact the advisor to see if we could integrate some sort of philosophical moral issues
• Raising money (where should the money go?)
• Around October 18th
• Will have donations, will break it up via how the world is set up with distributions of food
• Giving people numbers
• They will leave hungry or sad and donating money

• Pictures for the website with amnesty events!

• Mcgomr7@wfu.edu

• Creating  a virtual jail on the quad for Guantanamo Bay—voicing concern?

• What would be a good day?
• Around the election?
• Could have gates from someone on campus
• Torture?
• Is this issue too political?
• Prisoners of conscious?
• Just different forms of torture?
• Having different forms of torture lined up on the way to
• Political prisoners
• Each person represents x number of people
• Email the College Republicans or College Democrats   
• Screen a documentary at night or maybe get someone to talk
• Name: Wake Against Torture
• Maybe asking the theater group as well
• November 19th or so
• Essentially: simulation or description
• Profiles of specific egregious cases
• Documentary: “Taxi to the Dark Side”