[USFT] Re: [USFTCC] GENERATION FAIR CONFERENCE APRIL 1-3, 2005 IN DC!

Thu Mar 3 18:05:55 MST 2005

I just noticed the bit about small seed grants being available to
start collaborative projects that are sparked during the FAIR
conference.

If anyone from USFT is able to go, that might provide a great
opportunity to partner with Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC,
another FAIR Network member) to educate people about the links between
Fair Trade work and AIDS relief work.  Remember that idea about
packaging a Fair Trade banana along with a condom and information
about the extent of the AIDS epidemic and how Fair Trade helps fight
it?  (The joke being that bananas are often use to demo condoms,
right?)

Anyway, SGAC loves the idea as much as we do (or is it just me?) , and
with some of that seed money all it would take is a person to
spearhead it...

Matt

PS -- I really need to stop sending so many emails and work on my
thesis now.  This'll be it from me for a little while.

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:38:39 -0500, Lina Musayev <linam at gwu.edu> wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:40:47 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [FAIR-Network] Email Flyer and PDF Flyer for Outreach
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> ANNOUNCING: The Generation FAIR Conference, April 1-3! 
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> generationfair at yahoo.com 
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> www.generationfair.org 
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> April 1-3, 2005 
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> at American University in Washington, DC 
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> REGISTER NOW! 
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> For registration, agenda, workshops, logistics, travel, and background
> information, see our website: generationfair.org 
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> The Generation FAIR Network (Young People for a Fair, Accountable,
> Interdependent, and Responsible U.S. Global Engagement) is a loose network
> of 12 nonprofit organizations working to mobilize young people around
> progressive values and policies that unite our campaigns. Our goal is to
> link together campaigns for global justice and strengthen our collective
> advocacy efforts by developing more unified messages on the role of the U.S.
> globally. 
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> The Generation FAIR Conference is dedicated to recognizing the
> interconnectedness of the numerous global justice issues, and to spurring
> collaborative action across these issue groups, so that over time young
> people will become stronger in our efforts to bring about change. This
> conference will support us in creating a strong, unified youth movement that
> will address our diverse demands and help us win campaigns. 
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> Seed Grants will be Awarded to Projects Planned at Conference Small seed
> grants will be awarded to collaborative projects planned at the conference
> to make sure the end of the Generation FAIR Conference is the beginning of
> new organizational relationships that strengthen the progressive youth
> infrastructure. 
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> A variety of collaborative workshops will address the connections between
> issues such as energy, the environment, and militarization; AIDS and
> international debt; gender issues across the global justice movement; the
> environment and immigrant rights. Action-oriented workshops will focus on
> coalition-building, campaign strategy, and critique past collaborative
> campaigns. Local to global connections will be examined, comparing for
> instance the economic structure of urban areas in the U.S., the Caribbean,
> and African countries. 
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> A GENERAL ANTI-OPPRESSION TRAINING WILL KICK-OFF THE WORKSHOPS ON SATURDAY
> MORNING, AS THIS WILL FORM THE BASIS FROM WHICH OUR GROUPS CAN BETTER UNIFY
> OUR CAMPAIGNS. 
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> Young speakers as well as movement veterans will address both the climate of
> youth organizing today and share practical, tactical tips on how to run
> successful collaborative campaigns BASED ON THEIR OWN PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE! 
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> Monday, April 4, 2005 Optional Lobby Day coordinated in conjunction with the
> conference. Activate the cross-issue concepts and relationships built at the
> conference to immediately effect the power structure! Conference
> participants, with the help of FAIR Network members, will lobby their local
> representatives based on their STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE; this might not be your
> usual focus of your efforts. For instance, if someone usually would lobby on
> AIDS issues, but finds that their congressperson is more strategically
> important for issues surrounding CAFTA, this person would lobby on CAFTA,
> thereby strengthening his or her lobbyi ng perspective, knowledge, and
> strategy by lobbying on a campaign that is intimately connected to her own!
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Matt Eppelsheimer
USFT Northwest
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