SATURDAY 02/23/08
10am: Intros
10:45am: Recent campaign updates:
* NVP – youth vote turns out in record numbers, candidates recognize PIRG – Danny
* Global warming – where are we going from here – AB 32 implementation, clean cars, high speed rail, more solar, etc.) – Jason
11:15am: Issue Briefings from our Experts – the problems we're tackling.
* What's Wrong with Our Health Care System and How to Fix it (Mike)
* Protecting Yosemite, Joshua Tree, and other State/National Parks (Gina)
* How to Reduce Global Warming Pollution 80% by 2050 (Jason)
* Solar: The Next Frontier (Bernadette)
* Protecting Our Oceans From Trash and Other Nasty Stuff (Dan)
* How to Make Textbooks Free (Danny/Laura)
* High Speed Rail for California (Emily)
* Mortgage Lending – Preventing the Next Crisis (Pedro)
12pm: The Summer Canvass
* Start out with a little context – Elana
* Campaigns under consideration by Environment California/CALPIRG
1pm: LUNCH
2:00pm: Skills Sessions
* Lobbying 101 (Steve with Gina and Jeremy)
* Public Speaking – Delivering a Statement at a News Conference (there's a transit report release coming up on March 6th that campuses will help release.
* Leading a CALPIRG Campus Chapter – (Danny)
o Skills 2: Coordinating a Statewide Campaign – (Danny)
* Visibility: How to make your campaign known on campus (Tara)
* Working with Student Government (Laura)
o Skills 2: Recruitment/Leadership Development (Laura)
* Knowing the Target of Your Campaign (powermapping) (Dan)
* Planning a News Conference (Jason)
* Building a Coalition for Your Campaign (Bernadette)
* Leadership Training for the Summer Canvass – basic FM skills
* How to bump up your average
* How to run a kick-ass petition gathering event?
* Something on interviewing
2:45pm: Skills Sessions 2 (Repeat)
* Lobbying 101 (Steve with Gina and Jeremy)
* Public Speaking – Delivering a Statement at a News Conference (Pedro and Mike)
* Skills 2: Coordinating a Statewide Campaign – (Danny)
* Digital Organizing: Using Facebook, Youtube, and your chapter website for victory (James)
* Visibility: How to make your campaign known on campus (Tara)
* Recruitment/Leadership Development (Laura)
* Time Management (Amy)
* Knowing the Target of Your Campaign (powermapping) (Dan)
* Planning a News Conference (Jason)
* Building a Coalition for Your Campaign (Bernadette)
* How to be a Great Campaign Coordinator (Sujatha)
3:30pm: Break
3:45pm: Campaign Breakouts – planning the next couple of months.
* High speed rail (campus and canvass) Dan/Emily
* Hunger and homelessness (students) Ramneek/Laura
* Oceans (students and canvas) ?
* Global warming (students and maybe canvass) Ruchika Maybe Jason
* Textbooks (students) Tessa/Tara
* NVP (students) Danny/Sujatha/Nelson
* Healthcare Mike
* Maybe Democracy Now Dallas?
5pm: Each group will pick a spokesperson to present their goals/top priorities to the rest of the group.
Wrap-up at 5:30pm. Dinner at USC.
Sunday 02/24/08
9:00 AM Intros. Personal highlights for the semester
9:10 Budget Discussion. Danny provides general overview of the F08-09 Budget
9:30 AM How to raise more revenue to cut the deficit down. The 5 Ways
10:00 AM Begin discussion of line-items, what we may have to cut and why. Increase in supplies/copies.
10:30 AM Budget discussion end. Roll Call. Begin process of granting provisional board members to LACC. LACC Reps present case
10:35 AM Bring to vote.
10:45 AM Danny provides intro to Elections, function of EC, rules, format
10:50 AM Mike provides what we're looking for in the EC, what an EC can do and what is has done
10:55 AM Chair nominations (5 min.). Each candidate will have a 2 minute speech (5 candidates x 2 minutes = 10 total). After all have gone, a 5 minute Q & A session. 10 minutes of discussion
11:25 AM Vice Chair nominations (5 min.). Each candidate will have a 2 minute speech (5 candidates x 2 minutes = 10 total). After all have gone, a 5 minute Q & A session. 10 minutes of discussion
11:55 AM Break (5 minutes)
12:00 PM At large nominations (5 min.). Each candidate will have a 1.5 minute speech (6 candidates x 1.5 minutes = 9 total). After all have gone, a 5 minute Q & A session. 10 minutes of discussion
12:30 PM end
Showing posts with label Retreat. Show all posts
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Random Goings On
Hey peoples, I'm about to crash and i'd love to, but duty calls.
So, the LACCD (Los Angeles Community College District) Board of Trustees met today at LASC (Los Angeles Southwest College). Pretty campus, still a lot of construction or remodeling going on, but it was a nice place.
The meeting itself was all right, as much fun as any public hearing can be i suppose. Anyway, there was some drama that came up from people currently left out of the loop or just in general opposition to funding the 9 new PIRG chapters at the LACCD, but overall, it seems that these people are in the minority for various reasons. Some may be uninformed, others running on incorrect hearsay, others just morally opposed, others feeling threatened by our presence, or still others just doing what they're told. The 9 ASO Presidents apparently voted on some initial contracts of ours last Friday, and there was some confusion with that.
I don't know what the ASO is exactly or what they do, but what i got from the meeting was that they do some of the same type of work, and foster leadership development kinda like us. However, i'm not so sure they have access to the same scope of resources or the same extensive network we enjoy.
Whatever happens, it should be exciting times moving forward, and clearly you could feel the energy from the supporters and the momentum on our side.
On another note, if anyone has any particular aversion to calpirg but really likes to fight global warming, we have an open invitation to another retreat in Davis this week, this one for the California Student Sustainability Coalition. Any takers? No? Yeah, that's what i thought.
So, the LACCD (Los Angeles Community College District) Board of Trustees met today at LASC (Los Angeles Southwest College). Pretty campus, still a lot of construction or remodeling going on, but it was a nice place.
The meeting itself was all right, as much fun as any public hearing can be i suppose. Anyway, there was some drama that came up from people currently left out of the loop or just in general opposition to funding the 9 new PIRG chapters at the LACCD, but overall, it seems that these people are in the minority for various reasons. Some may be uninformed, others running on incorrect hearsay, others just morally opposed, others feeling threatened by our presence, or still others just doing what they're told. The 9 ASO Presidents apparently voted on some initial contracts of ours last Friday, and there was some confusion with that.
I don't know what the ASO is exactly or what they do, but what i got from the meeting was that they do some of the same type of work, and foster leadership development kinda like us. However, i'm not so sure they have access to the same scope of resources or the same extensive network we enjoy.
Whatever happens, it should be exciting times moving forward, and clearly you could feel the energy from the supporters and the momentum on our side.
On another note, if anyone has any particular aversion to calpirg but really likes to fight global warming, we have an open invitation to another retreat in Davis this week, this one for the California Student Sustainability Coalition. Any takers? No? Yeah, that's what i thought.
Monday, April 23, 2007
E-C Stuff, Retreat Agenda
Hot off the presses from last night's call and the hand of Michael Reagan...for all like two of the people going on this thing. But for anyone that still cared about what we'll be talking about or the contents of said retreat:
"This is a rough agenda for the two days at Davis for the retreat. We still need to fill the rest of the trainings with trainers.
SATURDAY
10:00 Intros
10:30 Training Session #1
11:30 Training Session #2
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Discussion on how to run a coordinated statewide campaign--what is the role of a statewide student leader, how can we make sure our efforts are making as big of a political impact as possible
2:00 Campaign Breakouts
4:00 Introducing a New Campaign--What's Your Plan
4:30 Campaign discussion--which campaigns should we run? what should be our lead campaign for fall 07?
6:00 DINNER!
SUNDAY
10:00 Revisiting the three year plan--What the EC has done in the last 3 months, where we still have to go. Whats our plan to get off pledge.
12:00 Budget
1:30 Lunch
2:30 CALPIRG's coalition efforts--discussion on the EAC and possible efforts to reach out in the future
3:00 Summer Plans--set up plans for the canvass and summer campaign work, including how we should launch What's Your Plan in the summer
4:00 Lobby Training
6:00 Wrap up
Each training session will be run by a staffer and a member of the EC:
Campaign Strategy Development--how to plan out a winning campaign
How to host the biggest event of campus
How to keep a campaign visible and in the media
Advanced Leadership Development--How to be the best Chapter Chair--Mike
Power Mapping--plot out your political targets and how to persuade them--Tessa
Coalition Building--Create a movement on your campus--Nelson"
"This is a rough agenda for the two days at Davis for the retreat. We still need to fill the rest of the trainings with trainers.
SATURDAY
10:00 Intros
10:30 Training Session #1
11:30 Training Session #2
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Discussion on how to run a coordinated statewide campaign--what is the role of a statewide student leader, how can we make sure our efforts are making as big of a political impact as possible
2:00 Campaign Breakouts
4:00 Introducing a New Campaign--What's Your Plan
4:30 Campaign discussion--which campaigns should we run? what should be our lead campaign for fall 07?
6:00 DINNER!
SUNDAY
10:00 Revisiting the three year plan--What the EC has done in the last 3 months, where we still have to go. Whats our plan to get off pledge.
12:00 Budget
1:30 Lunch
2:30 CALPIRG's coalition efforts--discussion on the EAC and possible efforts to reach out in the future
3:00 Summer Plans--set up plans for the canvass and summer campaign work, including how we should launch What's Your Plan in the summer
4:00 Lobby Training
6:00 Wrap up
Each training session will be run by a staffer and a member of the EC:
Campaign Strategy Development--how to plan out a winning campaign
How to host the biggest event of campus
How to keep a campaign visible and in the media
Advanced Leadership Development--How to be the best Chapter Chair--Mike
Power Mapping--plot out your political targets and how to persuade them--Tessa
Coalition Building--Create a movement on your campus--Nelson"
Sunday, April 22, 2007
CalPIRG Retreat
So, I already know turn-out is going to be low, but for those who didn't know it yet, our second "quarter" statewide retreat is this weekend the 28-29, culminating with our Lobby Day on the 30th. It's going to be on the campus of UC Davis this time, due to its proximity to Sacramento and all.
The idea is to go for the two days of retreat, where the main attraction is our 3-Year plan (Stalin-esque, i know!) and our budget, then find your local assemblyperson/state senator and tell them that you think they should vote on x,y, and z bills. Sounds like a dream, i know, but the timing could not be worse for a lot of us.
Also, just to throw it out there, go support Alex and Marissa this weekend at their Boom Kat Dance Company Spring Concert 2007 also from the 28-30, 8:00PM every night, tickets on sale now.
The idea is to go for the two days of retreat, where the main attraction is our 3-Year plan (Stalin-esque, i know!) and our budget, then find your local assemblyperson/state senator and tell them that you think they should vote on x,y, and z bills. Sounds like a dream, i know, but the timing could not be worse for a lot of us.
Also, just to throw it out there, go support Alex and Marissa this weekend at their Boom Kat Dance Company Spring Concert 2007 also from the 28-30, 8:00PM every night, tickets on sale now.
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