Meeting Held:
Mon, April 28, 2003 7:00 9:00 pm
Bellevue, WA
Attendance: 44 (half or more of the group from
Eastside neighborhoods)
Facilitators: Ellen Bovarnick and Lee Gilchrist
Minutes: Wendie Dyson
I. Neighborhood Reports:
a. Reports from: Queen Anne, Shoreline, Roosevelt, Phinney Ridge, Veterans for Peace, Capitol Hill/Montlake, Madison Park, Madrona/Leshi, West Seattle, Duval, Redmond/Kirkland, Bothell/Woodinville, Eastside Suburban Peace Network
b. Vigils/Tabling: A few groups have cancelled their vigils while those who have continued have been encouraged by the unexpected increase of public appreciation for continuing their vigils. The majority of folks in the room were continuing to vigil.
c. Refocusing: Many neighborhoods reported recent meetings to discuss long-term plans on where to go from here. Bothell, Woodinville and Duval are collaborating on certain issues.
d. Education: Many groups have decided to focus on education and reported recent, upcoming or ongoing educational events in their neighborhoods. Topics include DU, Patriot Act, military recruiters in HS, media, military tax dollars, & UN.
e. KVI: Duval, Redmond & Kirkland reported the KVI presence as dwindled while the publicity from KVI caused the peace vigil to grow from 4 to as high as 40 people. Numbers at the last Duvall vigil were 20 KVI and 20 SNOW.
II. Coordinating Committee Report:
a. Coordinating Committee members are rotating out as new neighborhood liaisons join CC. As of next week, Will Rose is replacing Marcia Mullins as liaison.
b. Staff: In process of hiring a replacement for Karissa Loewen as well as a new full time organizer position. Karissa's last day is Wed, 4/30. Spencer Sundell is SNOW's newly hired web master.
c. Mennonites have offered a matching donation up to $13,000 for staff hiring.
d. Many thank you's to Karissa, Marcia and other CC members for all their work with SNOW.
III. Fundraising Report:
a. CC is considering means of generating a steady cash flow possibly through monthly neighborhood contributions to SNOW based on size/means/resources of group.
b. Current efforts: Ballard fundraising concert May 9th, HAIR tickets (password "love" gives $10 of ticket price to SNOW), and the One Hundred Dollar Club.
c. The meeting raised $127.10 from passing the hat.
IV. Website:
a. New list set up on list serve specifically for discussion (snow-discuss@lists.riseup.net). Reminded that purpose of list serve is to exchange information and not the best format for in-depth conversations.
b. In process of connecting Pay Pal to SNOW site for on-line donations
c. Minutes of SNOW general and core mtgs posted on web site.
d. Discussed need for continued use of phone trees in neighborhoods for those without internet/email access.
V. What's Next? Wage Peace At Home (US) and Abroad
a. Wage Peace at home means: Supporting civil liberties, human needs and participatory democracy
b. Wage Peace Abroad means: Support representative international institutions, oppose chemical/bio/nuclear warfare, and assist in rebuilding of Iraq/Afghanistan
c. Brainstorming session with Eastside to gather input on what's missing or needs editing in the evolving "Next Step" mission statement above.
VI. May 31st Event
a. Purpose: Galvanize the neighborhood groups and roll out the new mission statement.
b. Who: SNOW and snow-minded people; 800-2,000 people
c. When: Saturday afternoon, May 31st
d. Where: Marsha seeking suitable location that has a large gathering area and smaller breakout rooms (like Garfield)
e. Format: Larger gathering organized by neighborhoods for introduction to the mission stmt and speakers related to new focus. Then, break out into smaller groups to discuss tools &/or topics for moving forward with the new focus. Return to larger group for rah-rah, swap ideas, find out date of next neighborhood mtg to plan next step.
f. The meeting broke into working groups on large program, small program, logistics, and outreach/publicity to continue work on event.
VII. Announcements
[end]a. Let's just say there's no shortage of energy and events going on. Please check the SNOW web site or join snow-announce@lists.riseup.net for current calendar of events.