ANARCHIST UNIVERSITY - GENERAL MEETING NOVEMBER 23, 2003

corrections from last Minutes (to be updated on website):

• Yehuda's class will take place on Thursdays starting at 8pm, perhaps at his house, or at the Meeting Place
• classes start on on week of January 12th, 2004 (until the end of March)

announcement:

• HR & Leslie will organize a facilitating workshop open to all but of special benefit to new facilitators, in early Januray before classes begin

Emily's class proposal:

• idea for September 2004 term: a Photoshop workshop (or other graphic design software)
• laptops required, or access to computer lab
• participatns may be partnered 2 per computer
• we observed that this is the first 'workshop' class being proposed, and discussed whether this fit the anarchistU - we will need a discussion about this -how is a workshop taught in a npon-authoritative way?
• workshop is intended to empower people with a new communication skill - there is still the elitism issue of access to technology
• this is intended to provide access to skills which otherwise are very expensive to learn
• Dwayne mentioned that he may have access to a computer lab with 25 computers at a youth shelter

promotion:

• Luis will make new flier with course schedule by Friday - will leave these at Manning mailbox for people to pick up and distribute
• Chris will talk to CKLN about the possibility of doing a radio spot - process needs lots of lead-time (which may be too late for promo before classes start) - and requires reciprocal promotion
• Sam will talk to CIUT this week
• Luis will send out an email, and will talk to Teaching Ourselves on CIUT for a radio spot
• Yehuda will post flier on Indymedia website - Luis will post flier in PDF format on AnarchistU website
• Luis will try to get NOW community listing
• Yehuda will poster on York campus - Amish will also do postering
• Chris will speak to Mike Smith with idea of writing something
• Chris and Rob will shoot at Rogers TV tomorrow, which will air 3 times starting Thursday - they will tape this show for our archives
• Yehuda will be our new email administrator for the period December-February
• Chris will print out our email list abd deopsit it in our archive (in case the electronic version disappears in cyberspace!)

website:

• Sam will reformat the website so that new course schedule appears first when people open it, will move stuff around to make it more current and easier ot navigate

party:

• we will move the party from Manning to Yehuda's parents; house at 50 ellsworth Avenue (south of St.Clair / west of Bathurst)
• Alan will put together a schedule of videos from his collection - Rob will bring Tear gas Holiday - then followed by an open screening
• Yehuda will be responsible of getting a keg
• Yehuda will try to get DJ equipment from freetechno
• Alan will ask Raw-Brt to see if he'll DJ - Sam and Luis also interested in Djing

summer:

• we may want to organize a weekend retreat event at Kimbercote Farm in the summer, maybe with Intro to Anarchy, Consensus-Building workshops
• we may run a couple of classes in summer, but for the most part we will take a rest from AnarchistU activities

avoiding hierarchy:

• Luis observed that he's become a bit of a spokesperson for the collective in the media - is that a problem?
• people felt that is not a problem, and observed that others are also speaking to the media
• we observed that it's mostly the facilitators that attend the general meetings - why are the other participants not attending?
• it was suggested that we post the agenda in email announcements to the meetings, to allow for an entry point for people not attending - it was oserved that we don't want to have an 'executive committe' situation that sets the agenda in advance, but that the agenda is put together at the meetings themselves
• we do post an abbreviated agenda in our emails - we also post our minutes in the website
• facilitators are entrusted with conveying to other participants how the anarchistU is organized, especially the role of the general meetings, and encouraging attendance - facilitators are also entrusted with passing participants' email addresses to the email administrator so that we have a full list and we don't lose anyone!

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