[mgj-discuss] MGJ general meeting and Communty working group Wed

[Martin Thomas]

MGJ General meeting
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 7:30 pm

St Stephens Church
16th and Newton St NE (Columbia Heights metro)

On the agenda so far:
speaker on the FTAA mobilization in Quito
DC-Quito solidarity rally and ZOMBIE MARCH
reports from working groups

send other agenda suggestions to thomasm at seiu.org

also Wed at St Stephens: at 6:30 pm, first meeting of the MGJ community outreach group- see below for more details.
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At the last MGJ meeting, we discussed forming a working group that would try to figure out ways in which MGJ can work with existing DC-based community groups to: 
*strengthen our ties 
*help out with local actions 
*show that we're not just around during big mobilizations 
*maybe take the lead on a local issue or two ourselves. 

Calling everyone who is interested to bring their ideas to a brainstorm to generate ideas about: 
*what should the scope of our work be? 
*what capacity do we have? 
*what local groups should we be working with? 
*what local issues can we work on to make local-global connection? 
*how does this work fit into short and long-term MGJ goals? 
*and more 

time/date: 
Wed, Oct 30 
6:30 pm at St Stephens -16th and Newton 
(the MGJ general meeting is at 7:30 that night)