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National Meeting Of the October 22nd Coalition
by Renee Wilson Friday, Jul. 30, 2004 at 12:11 PM
justice@PAPV.org 412-657-4268 5125 Penn Ave

The National Meeting of the October 22nd Coalittion will Take place in Pittsbugh August 6,7,8, 2004 The meet and greet will be held at the Safari Club in the Strip at 6pm until 10 pm

Dear, People for Justice
PAPV will be holding the National meeting Of the Oct22nd Coalition On August 6,7,8, We have all ready taken care of most of the sleeping aragminents but all ways can use more if you have a room are if some one can sleep on your floor please call me. the more people from out of town sign up the more room we will need. the Friends meeting house have gave us space so I think we will be alright. The place that we hold the meeting will be At the The Safri Club in the Strip for the Meet and greet the people from out of town than we will be at Kinsley Center on Sat from 9 am-5pm on Paulson Ave pittsbugh 15206
We will than move to the Thomas Maton Center at 5125 Penn ave on Sat evening and all day Sunday from 9 am to 7pm, We have two people who can go to the Airport and pick people up we need one more person please call me.
We need warmers for the food about two more we also need paper plates and forks and thing like that please call me if you can help with this we want to make the people from out of town feel good to be here with us so if you can bring a cake a cookie do so. I hope to see every one at the Safhi club in the strip for the meet and greet and at the meetings. Peace Renee --
Summer


National Meeting of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation Areas can send as many as three people. There is still only one vote per area. Pittsburgh will pick people up from the airport, but they need to know your travel arrangements in advance so they can plan this, as well as planning food and lodging. August 6, 7, 8 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Contact: office@october22.org (National Office of October 22), or call 1-888-noBrutality Or renee_wilson_7@msn.com (Pittsburgh); or call 412-657-4268 (Pittsburgh) Registration fee: $30 Food will be provided during the meeting times. Lodging will be in people's homes. It is recommended to bring your own sleeping bag and towel. Friday August 6 6 p.m. - evening Meet and Greet. People from Oct.22 local areas out of town meet with people working locally with Oct.22 Pittsburgh Saturday August 7 9 Breakfast 10 Opening Session and First Plenary Reports from Areas -- This will include strengths of the work they have been doing, and problems they have been running into, questions that they have. The Political Terrain that this October 22 takes place in -- what are the particulars of the increases in repression; what is the status of the increase in police brutality and violence; what sections of the population are being targeted, and in what ways; what is the resistance of people, and what are the ways in which it is being expressed. Relevant reports from other areas -- news about the anti-RNC work; news from NION, UFPJ and anti-war, anti-repression groups; reports on the latest in the Mumia Abu Jamal case; Amnesty International racial profiling report; and other activities impacting on the overall scene. The Mission of the October 22nd Coalition, and our special contribution to the resistance in this country -- How do we go about building the bridge and alliance between those who don't directly experience police brutality and those who do? What does October 22nd have to say that no one else is saying? Who should we be uniting with? Where should we be doing outreach to make the biggest impact? Vision of October 22nd this year -- what do we want to see? What is our capacity to make things happen? What are the strengths and weaknesses in the local areas, and in the National Office? How can we make a plan that takes our current situation (reduced staffing and funding in many areas) into account, while still having maximum impact? 1 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30- 6:30 Secondary Plenary This session will talk about the plans that we need to make for this coming year. Kickoff meetings, Outreach and work with the families of Stolen Lives; Youth work; special outreach efforts to anti-war groups, anti-repression groups, immigrant groups, religious groups; Using the CALL and endorsements; the Poster, the Stolen Lives Project research, the forms of publicizing the SLP research; Media work; and Fundraising 6:30 - 7:30 Dinner 7:30 - evening Meetings on special topics, in smaller, more informal groupings These meetings will be organized by the people who are at the meeting. They could include going more deeply into any one of the topics raised in the second plenary, or topics which were not raised in any other way. Sunday, August 8 9 Breakfast 10 Opening Session Continuation of discussion from Saturday Second Plenary. Reporting on further thinking and discussions on unresolved plans. Reports from the Saturday evening Special Topic meetings 1 - 2 Lunch 2 - 4 Timeline of Activities Uniting on national plan for October 22nd, 2004 Attachment 1 Type: text/html Filename: Unknown.html Encoding: quoted-printable Download Attachment 2

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