[Iswg3906.organizers] today's meeting minutes

[Jessica Foran]

Quick follow up-- I just realized that the next GMM is this coming
Wednesday. Is anyone able to put together a report for the working group?
Typically the reports just update the membership on the activity of the
working group since the last GMM and any upcoming plans. I assume the
donations reporting also applies to us, however we haven't made a donation
since September so I'm not sure how important it is to include at this
point. Perhaps, given our discussions today it would be best to include
them ($500 to line 9 support, $500 to grassroots media production, $200 to
MFNSA). What do others think?

The report should be sent to Malissa Phung <recordingsecretary at cupe3906.org>
by tomorrow, but sending it Tuesday probably wouldn't be an issue.

Let me know, thanks,
j.


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Jessica Foran <foran.jessica at gmail.com>wrote:

> Copy and pasting these because my guess is that the attachment wouldn't
> send...
>
> Feel free to add and re-send--the minutes are a bit brief so I may very
> well have forgotten some details.
>
> j.
>
>
> *ISWG Meeting Minutes – November 10, 2013 at 2pm*
>
>
>  In attendance: Jessica, Peter, Tony, Marguerite
>
>
>
> *Updates:*
>
> 1)      Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women - Peter is touching base
> with Sisters in Spirit, Myka Burning and the National campaign. Others will
> continue to look into touching base with local folks who are doing this
> work.
>
> 2)      Elsipogtog – may have more funding needs in the future. Peter
> will be in touch to offer support and they can assess how to proceed.
>
> *Projects:*
>
> 1)      Funding Guidelines – working guidelines read as follows. Jess
> will send to the email address so they are on hand to send to groups that
> get in touch with us for funds.
>
> *Thank you for getting in contact with us. Below are some questions we’d
> like to pose to your group in the spirit of building relationships of
> solidarity. There are no wrong answers. We pose these questions to make
> space for us to share our analyses. We look forward to engaging these
> issues with you and to finding ways to collaborate. *
>
> *1)      **How is the project you’re working on decolonizing? What is
> your understanding of decolonization?*
>
> *2)      **How does your project confront power structures, such as
> capitalism, patriarchy, racism, white supremacy, colonialism, heterosexism,
> ableism, etc.?*
>
> *3)      **What is your likelihood of finding funding elsewhere? What
> other groups are you collaborating with on this project?*
>
> *4)      **Are there other forms of assistance that would be helpful for
> you? For example, transportation assistance, photocopying or promotional
> assistance.*
>
> 2)      Workshop Series:
>
> *Logistics:* Nov.30 and Dec. 7 as possible dates—decided on Dec. 7th to
> give adequate notice for folks to read in advance. Time: 2-5pm. Location:
> Options are Artbar and the James Street Bookseller. Tony will contact
> Artbar, Peter will contact Bookseller and report back via email. Back ups:
> booking a room on campus, or the basement of the Green Smoothie Bar.
>
> *Theme:* Language and Decolonization—Niki relayed that the focus was
> going to be on how language and stories shape the ways we think about and
> understand the world, using Thomas King’s ‘The Truth About Stories’
> (book/audio).
>
> *Contacting Folks:* drafted a call out (below). Jess will get contacts
> from Niki and send out by Tuesday this week. Decided we’ll send it to folks
> to have attended the first workshop/allyship workshop and other people we
> know who are working on issues of decolonization.
>
> *Other related tasks:* Jess will also talk to Niki to confirm she can
> facilitate and see if she is open to attending the next meeting, where
> we’ll be discussing/planning the workshop in more detail (+ get notes on
> workshop intentions).
>
> Someone will draft a follow up email to send out to the group in a week’s
> time, which will include: location confirmation, brief re-cap of the last
> workshop (peter), reminder of some of the intentions for the series (jess).
>
> Everyone will read/listen to the audio recordings before next meeting on
> Nov. 24.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Saturday, December 7: Language and Decolonization workshop; The Truth
> About Stories, by Thomas King*
>
>
>  *First off, sorry we didn’t follow up on the announced workshop back in
> September. Some members of the working group had personal issues come up
> that cut into our capacity. But for the fall and winter, we’re really
> excited to pick back up the idea of a series of workshops delving further
> into issues of decolonization and Indigenous solidarity. *
>
>
>  *As we’d planned before, the next workshop in this series will deal with
> the theme of Language and Decolonization, using Thomas King’s book, The
> Truth About Stories, as a starting point. This text is available in the
> library or in audio format, read by the author, here.
> <http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey-archives/2003/11/07/massey-lectures-2003-the-truth-about-stories-a-native-narrative/>*
>
>
> *We’re sending this callout to people who have either attended the
> solidarity and allyship workshop in the summer or who are also working on
> issues of decolonization. Please feel free to send this along to people you
> know who are also engaged in this work and who might be interested.*
>
>
>  *We’re planning this workshop for 2-5pm on December 7th, at a location
> to be announced. Early next week, we’ll be sending around another note to
> confirm the location and to refresh ourselves on some of the intentions of
> this series.*
>
>
>  *Looking forward to seeing you soon,*
>
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