Elections: Positions

Please come to vote and run for positions.
We will vote at the potluck.

STAND positions

President

-attend COLT Training w/Treas

-attend funding meetings (2/semester)

-hold UNR STAND's executive board accountable

-maintain Google/OrgSync calendars

-FWD ASUN emails to E-Board

-create meeting PPTs/agendas

-email/FB message members to remind about meetings

-attends STANDcamp in D.C. or finds someone else to

-fills out monthly form for STAND

-maintains contact with Outreach Coordinator

-maintains relationships with elected officials

-communicates advocacy successes

-works with team to form goals + general timeline for year

-(is on credit card form)

Vice President

-holds President accountable

-takes minutes every meeting, emails to listserv/Pres

-responsible for maintaining STAND materials including tabling, education, budget (suggestion: googledocs)

-maintains contact with advisor

-maintains contact w/ and outreaches to other clubs and orgs

-organizes socials

-(is on CC form)

Treasurer

-attend COLT

-attend funding meetings

-familiarize self with all funding policies

-research orgs to donate to (in addition to GI-NET) & present to group

-research successful fundraising events & present plans to group

-SFH: give input on best pricing model

-SFH: give input on art auction v. other fundraising activities; work with PR Chair to organize

-tabling events (lemonade, tea, etc. stands)

-add events to calendar
-record of money: budget copies for e-board, record of fundraisers, record of donations
-Manage travel documents (STANDcamp)

Media/PR Coordinator

-sends out media alerts

-maintains relationships with media contacts

-sends alerts to professors/community members

-aware of STAND materials re: media

-write L2Es & op-eds in coordination with STAND's efforts

-coordinates classroom presentations

-keeps Facebook/MySpace/STAND pages up to date

-creates talking points/event descriptions with E-board feedback

-create ads for use in local/school newspapers

Education Tasks

-read news updates compiled by STAND's E-Team

-keep updates on STAND's blog

-highlight important events and forward important blogs to E-board

-highlight important events for chapter

-(possible): organize social event once per month, use an e-team discussion guide

-makes copies of edu. one pagers, let's Pres/Treasurer know in advance of $ needed for copies

Everyone on E-Board

-try best to read news updates/blogs

-always read highlights sent by Edu Coordinator

-set reminders on Calendar for deadlines

-if overwhelmed, contact Pres/VP so someone can help w/ the workload

-hang out, know your shit, be responsive

-deal with the boring details before/after meetings

Needs: members

-provide constructive criticism

-participate in brainstorming

-participate in outreach (pass out fliers in classes, table, etc.)

-volunteer to chair events committees

-think about possible contributions

-attends events, bring friends, take pics, share!

Other possible tasks:

-HS outreach

-website/blog

UPDATES: UNR STAND ELECTIONS

Hey everyone!

Tonight we will have a meeting at 8 p.m. in the Rita Laden Senate Chambers. We were planning to hold elections tonight, but as a few candidates can't make it, we've decided to postpone them until our potluck.

The potluck is, as of yet, TBA--it will probably be after finals. Everyone is welcome to come! I mean everyone! If you have any friends who are interested in getting involved, or even just learning more about STAND, bring them too!

I'll see you all tonight! If you're not able to make it and you're interested in a position, please email me and I'll add you to our ballot.

-Christy

P.S. here is the link to the positions available:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhfptxr7_14gxgprjdf&btr=EmailImport

Ory Okolloh on becoming an activist: Why We Need to Look at the Positive, Too

Enablis encourages South African entrepreneurship, with expansion plans in the works.

Afrigator is a site that encourages African bloggers, searchable by country.

Mzalendo is a site which holds Kenyan MPs accountable. Similar to STAND, they believe advocacy is one of the backbones of affecting positive change.

Movie Showing: Reporter

UNR STAND will show Nicholas Kristof's trek into the DRC on Monday, April 16th at the University of Nevada's Library Theater: Event details on Facebook

REPORTER is a feature documentary about Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, who almost single-handedly put the crisis in Darfur on the world map. The film puts the viewer in Kristof’s pocket, revealing the man and his methods, and just how and why real reporting is vital to our democracy, our world-awareness, and our capacity to be a force for good. (Reporterfilm.com, 2010)

Go to Reporterfilm.com to see the whole page

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

Your Cell Phones Are Funding a Deadly War

Legislation introduced in the house November 19th would make businesses trace conflict minerals. Just as Diamonds funded crimes, tungsten, tantalum, tin, and gold provide $180 million a year to armed groups in the Eastern Congo. We can support this legislative effort to make companies choose legitimate sources from mines that do not fund violence against women, children, and all life in the Congo river valley.

Thursday, April 22, 2010 Agenda

Thursday, April 22, 2010
8 p.m.
MIKC Wells Fargo Theater

Video: Sexual Violence in Congo

Stand’s Website:

In need of a serious overhaul.
Jay Dave has been kind enough to offer his web design skills, let me know if you want to be added as an author, or if you have any design ideas, I can make you an admin!

The site: unrstand.blogspot.com

News Update:

o GI-NET reclassifies Sri Lanka as “High Radar” area
o UN mission in Darfur: abducted peacekeepers are OK
o ICC Prosecutor Seeks Non-Cooperation Ruling Against Sudan
o U.N. fears Congo pullout will hurt fight against rape
o Burma's hip-hop resistance spreads message of freedom

Next Week’s elections:

In order for elections to be successful, let’s go over what each job entails.
UNR STAND’s leadership team is in need of more clearly defined roles so that one person is not carrying the brunt of the work.

All positions are open, and you may nominate yourself. Next week you will introduce your platform, letting us know why you are the best candidate. Please prepare a 1 minute speech.

*I will post the updated position requirements later. I must have not emailed myself the correct one.

International Justice Speaker Panel

We need someone to pick-up food Monday (Christy) and Tuesday (Austin) at 3:30 pm
We need someone to pick-up, drop-off Martina Knee for Tuesday and Wednesday
Tuesday, April 27th in the JCSU Theater- 7 p.m.
Set-up at 6
Spread the word!

Program:
TOPIC ONE: Can or should international law be enforced?
How can international law and justice be defined? (Or can they be defined?_
Are genocide and mass atrocities preventable? If so, does that make international justice organs such as the ICC obsolete?
Is having a permanent court a deterrent to future genocide and amass atrocities?

TOPIC TWO: Should gross violations of human rights be brought before international or local tribunals? (For example, ICC or ICJ versus Yugoslavia and Rwandan courts?)
Are regional or international organs more effective (at achieving justice/punishing perpetrators) than national/state mechanisms?
How can culture impact or affect the achievement international law?
What role can truth and reconciliation commissions play?

TOPIC THREE: What are the best methods for punishing human rights violations? (Sanctions, indictments, intervention, etc.)
What should be the result of “justice”?

TOPIC FOUR: Should justice come before peace, or vice versa? (For instance, end the war or charge the criminals first?)
Can ICC indictments or charges derail peace efforts in volatile ongoing conflicts? (i.e., Sudan)
Conclusions on merits/failures of international justice and expectations for the future

“Reporter” Screening

Monday, April 26th
7 p.m.
Location?
Free to all, help spread the word! We’ve got to appeal to the J-School crowd.

Working for Genocide Prevention at the Clinton Global Initiative University
Jenna Fox tells us about her experience at the conference this last weekend.

“In order to participate in the conference, STAND needed to make a "commitment"--a project or campaign proposal for which we intended to use the skills developed at CGIU. Our commitment relied greatly on the grassroots constituency that STAND developed through the Pledge2Protect campaign: the 51,000+ students and activists who issued their "pledge" for genocide prevention last fall. We committed ourselves to working with our parent organization, the Genocide Intervention Network, to the passage of comprehensive genocide prevention legislation. We committed to mobilize the grassroots constituency developed over the past five years around the development of a coordinated, interagency genocide prevention policy, based on the guidelines provided by the Genocide Prevention Task Force. This weekend's conference certainly assisted us in making steps towards that goal.” –Dan Solomon
*To read the full blog, click here.

Next week the meeting will be as previously scheduled, in the rita laden senate chambers. 8 p.m. see you there!

Working for Genocide Prevention at the Clinton Global Initiative University

From the STAND blog:

This weekend, I traveled down to the University of Miami with Mickey Jackson and Jenna Fox, STAND's National Outreach Coordinators, and Daniel Teweles, STAND's National Student Coordinator, for the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference. CGIU, started by the Clinton Global Initiative at Tulane University three years ago, drew over 1300 student activists, entrepreneurs, and organizers from all 50 states and 83 countries to network and share information about organizing strategies and project development. With few expectations about my CGIU experience going into the conference, I can confidently say that I have gathered a greater understanding of STAND's role in the global context of student organizations, and the potential effectiveness of STAND's vision for development and growth.

In order to participate in the conference, STAND needed to make a "commitment"--a project or campaign proposal for which we intended to use the skills developed at CGIU. Our commitment relied greatly on the grassroots constituency that STAND developed through the Pledge2Protect campaign: the 51,000+ students and activists who issued their "pledge" for genocide prevention last fall. We committed ourselves to working with our parent organization, the Genocide Intervention Network, to the passage of comprehensive genocide prevention legislation. We committed to mobilize the grassroots constituency developed over the past five years around the development of a coordinated, interagency genocide prevention policy, based on the guidelines provided by the Genocide Prevention Task Force. This weekend's conference certainly assisted us in making steps towards that goal.

The CGIU conference served as a valuable reminder that we can continue to educate and learn from other activists about the tools we use for student empowerment and mobilization. I attended a panel session on the use of social media for democracy and human rights promotion, including such social media innovators as Oscar Morales, of One Million Voices Against the FARC, and Ory Okolloh, the crowdsourcing pioneer responsible for Ushahidi. The panel repeatedly emphasized the importance of social media technology as a tool of social change, and State Department Policy Planning staff member Jared Cohen addressed the potential influence that such technology can have on policy formation.

A panel on community organizing and grassroots engagement, which my colleagues Mickey and Jenna attended, served to reinforce the maturity that STAND has accomplished over the course of our five-and-a-half year development. We continue to work to empower activists throughout the United States, to grant students a voice in shaping this country's foreign policy priorities. Through the Genocide Intervention Network, we advocate for genocide prevention and civilian protection, emphasizing those crucial human rights issues as elements of U.S. national security. Through our CGIU commitment, we hope to further develop that balance between grassroots engagement and organizational advocacy.

Our commitment to genocide prevention can only take form through the commitment of our activists. STAND has recently undertaken a significant structural review, which we hope will allow us to better empower activists and give a grassroots voice to our advocacy priorities. We, as activists, need to take advantage of these advocacy opportunities and take a crucial role in the revised STAND structure in order for our commitment to become a reality.

Video: Sexual Violence in the Congo