Please attend the Third Annual Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, hosted by the Committee for Justice in Palestine, held at the Ohio State University; also, please encourage organizations of which you are a member to endorse the Conference and to urge their members to attend it.
***** From: Palestine Conference Announcements <palestineconferenceannouncements at yahoo.com>
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--------------------------------------------- Call to Attend the Third Annual Conference of The Palestine Solidarity Movement November 7, 8, & 9 at Ohio State University
Email your registration to <registration at palestineconference.com> or register online at: <http://www.palestineconference.com>
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Dear Activists in the Palestine Solidarity Movement,
The organizing committee of the conference has passed a proposal to change the conference location to Ohio State University and the date to Nov 7-9, by the required 2/3 majority vote, and it is now time to start building a successful conference oriented towards the development of cohesive activist organizing strategies for the coming year. (A more in-depth explanation of why the conference host and location were changed, as well as a detailed description of how this vote took place can be found on the website: http://www.palestineconference.com).
Ensuring a democratically organized conference at OSU requires the Organizing Committee of the Palestine Solidarity Movement be transparent and representative of all groups. If your organization is not represented on the Organizing Committee it is extremely important that you elect two members for your organization to represent you. (For more information on the democratic structure of the movement, the voting procedure and the role of the Organizing Committee, please visit: http://www.palestineconference.com/).
Diverse national conference planning committees are now forming to build an open and transparent conference. All organizations can and should plug into the national committees to help organize the conference. This structure is to help ensure that all organizations have equal input and that the movement takes collective ownership over the conference. Organizations can have representatives join whatever committee they want, but no more than one rep per group per committee (The Host group CJP will have one rep on each committee to facilitate communication and logistical needs between national committees and the host).
Committees: To join Committees email the committee, and to find more detailed descriptions of the committees, please visit: http://www.palestineconference.com/committees.htm.
1. Media Committee media at palestineconference.com
2. Security Committee security at palestineconference.com
3. Finance Committee finance at palestineconference.com
4. Brochure-Literature Committee literature at palestineconference.com
5. Web Committee web at palestineconference.com
6. Registration Committee registration at palestineconference.com
7. Proposal/Resolution Collection Committee proposal at palestineconference.com
8. Workshop Selection Committee workshops at palestineconference.com
9. Facilitation Committee facilitation at palestineconference.com
10. Outreach outreach at palestineconference.com
If you are interested in having delegates on the national organizing committee, joining one of the subcommittees listed, or have questions/comments about the committee structure, please send a message to <organizingcommittee at palestineconference.com>. *****
-- Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>