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Jan 18th Meeting and News
We had our first real general meeting of the semester yesterday and have a some upcoming events planned. At the meeting we discussed the proposed Uganda bill that would make homosexuality punishable by death, as well as making "promotion" of homosexuality an offense punishable by 5-7 years in prison. We will be having a march on Tuesday the 26th in opposition to this bill. The march will begin at 12:30 at the Allen St. gates, and we plan to contact various campus LBGTQA groups and any other interested student groups to ask for their participation. Anyone else who would like to participate is welcome.

We also discussed the recent disaster in Haiti, and what we can do to help. Anyone interested in that should contact someone from the Penn State chapter of Project Haiti. Information on that was sent out over our mailing list, but if you are not a part of that, contact our Events officer, Kylee Digregorio. There will also be a spaghetti dinner to help raise money for Project Haiti on February 1st at St. Andrews Church (on the corner of Foster and Fraiser.)

Our action for this week was a letter to thank Obama for giving Temporary Protected Status to Haitians in the US, and to ask him to rescind the policy of interdiction at sea. More information on this, and the action itself, can be found in the Actions section of this website.

Finally, we are now starting tabling, which will be every Wednesday from 10-5 in the HUB. If you are interested, you can sign up at the Tabling section of this website every week, and feel free to stop by and help any time you are free during the day.
posted by bsf5033 on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:43:17 EST

Welcome back!
We have a lot of things planned this semester, so I'll just jump right into it.

First, we had a table at today's involvement fair - if you weren't there, you should have been. We have a lot of potential new members, but if you missed it you can get added to our mailing list by contacting our webmaster at bsf5033@psu.edu or through our contact form. Our first meeting is next Monday at 7pm on the Hub lawn, and will feature a more in-depth introduction to Amnesty for the new members.

We've got several new ideas for events this semester, so come to the meetings and keep checking this site to find out about those. We're also always open to any suggestions you have, so feel free to contact us through Angel or this site's contact form with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
posted by bsf5033 on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:53:08 EDT
edited by bsf5033 on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:28:54 EDT

Congrats
Just a quick summer news update - our own PR/Events officer Stephanie just completed her orientation and is now working for Amnesty USA's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office as a Student Area Coordinator for central Pennsylvania. She's quite excited about her new position, as well as her existing officer position with AI PSU, and we're all looking forward to an excellent upcoming semester.'
posted by bsf5033 on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:46:15 EDT

Semester Wrapup
I apologize for the recent lack of news - finals and such were pretty much taking up all my time. Anyway, I just want to make one final post to end the semester.

Since my last update we had a rather successful Jamnesty concert - managed to raise some money for the club, and despite our final band being a bit tardy, it went quite well. In addition to Jamnesty we had John Prendergast speak about conflict minerals in Congo, and how these minerals, used in our common high-tech devices, are fueling slave labor and war in Congo. For more information on this, see EnoughProject.org

Finally, we've elected our new officers for next semester. While our graduating seniors will be missed greatly, I would like to congratulate our new officers of Arielle as Co-Coordinator, Steph as Events and PR, and Paul and Alexis as Recruitment and Retention officers. Returning officers include Anna and Tara as Co-Coordinators, Tara as Treasurer, Aaron as Secretary, and myself as Webmaster. We've already begun planning for next semester, so be ready for some great events when classes resume.
posted by bsf5033 on Thu, 07 May 2009 17:14:04 EDT

AGM and Updates
Well, the AISUA Annual General Meeting (AGM) was last weekend, and it was quite an exciting time...despite some problems with sleeping arrangements due to arriving at 4 in the morning on Friday. Events included a rally for immigrants' rights, some very informative workshops, and a few panel discussions, along with a concert by Chad Stokes of State Radio, a screening of the film Torturing Democracy, and much more. It was a rather busy weekend, with much sleep deprivation. But it was an excellent experience, and I highly recommend it to any who did not attend.

In other news, I've been doing some more updates to the site. Most of it has been backend work (making things easier for the next webmaster, and myself,) but I also added the video for State of Georgia by State Radio, which was written about the Troy Davis case. I have also added links to Torturing Democracy, which I highly recommend if you have the time. And as always, let me know if I've broken anything during my site updates - It all worked fine in my testing, but something may have slipped by.
posted by bsf5033 on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:27:16 EDT

Upcoming Events:

Officer Meeting

February 14th at 5:00pm

204 Hub

General Meeting

February 15th at 8:00pm

218 Thomas