Meeting Summary - December 7th

Another great turnout this past Friday - you are a dedicated committee and it is so nice to see! Here's what we discussed:

- Brainstormed a list of organizations to donate the money that was raised from the Comedy Hypnosis show. Many contributed ideas and the ultimate decision was to donate $1000 to HelpDarfurNow.org. We liked that their overhead costs were low. From their website:

Help Darfur Now, Inc. is a non-profit organization formed by New Jersey high school students, committed to providing much-needed financial aid to refugees and refugee camps. The charity is an all volunteer organization with no payroll expenses. Approximately 98% of all proceeds contributed to the organization go toward Darfur relief efforts.

- Reminder about the upcoming showing of "Darfur Now" at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington on Tuesday night, Dec. 11th. Show starts at 7:30pm. Members of the Darfur People's Association of NY will be there speaking as well.

- Ben informed us that showing on HBO is a documentary called "Sand and Sorrow."

- Future activity ideas:
- movie showing after school coinciding with a pizza sale
- Car wash in the spring
- Pop-tops being looked into for legitimacy
- Tents of Hope

- We need to re-do the bulletin board.

"Sand and Sorrow" Documentary on HBO West

Sorry for this late night post but for anyone who's interested, Paul Freedman's documentary about the genocide in Darfur which is narrated by George Clooney is on HBO West (Channel 306) right now and should be replayed many times on the HBO and HBO West channels throughout the next few weeks.

"The documentary, which is set to premiere on the premium cable channel in December, chronicles the historical events that led to the rise of Darfur's Arab-dominated government that allows its people to be killed and displaced, provides an inside look at the situation on the ground and examines the international community's "legacy of failure" to respond to such profound crimes against humanity in the past."

Meeting Agenda Summary - November 29th

Debriefed Comedy Hypnosis Event:
- Raised $1300
- We need to decide where the money is going. We discussed some organizations and asked people to do some research and thinking and be prepared to dialogue at next week's meeting.
- An article appeared in the Smithtown News about the event
- Keep in mind that at the events that we plan, you must be willing to work and possibly forfeit being a participant

Preparation for Darfur Rally:
- Update on speakers - Senator Flanagan is speaking, as is Mr. Menendez and Harrini and Daniella
- Harrini and Daniella gave a run through of their speech and it floored us. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
- We have items for a table - trifold board, display for our committee, water jug for donations, flyers, and pamphlets. Ally graciously agreed to take all of this to the rally.

Darfur Now at Cinema Arts Centre:
- Tuesday, December 11th at 7:30 pm at the Cinema Arts Centre in huntington (www.cinemaartscentre.org)
- People from the Darfur People's Association of New York will be there.

Next Friday, December 7th, we have a meeting. We will discuss new campaign ideas.

Things to do next week! - Time Sensitive

The Darfur Rally is coming soon....it is Saturday, December 1st. We have flyers run off that need to be hung up on Monday. Can someone or multiple people stop by F206 on Monday to get this done? Also, we should get an announcement submitted to E Administration informing students that such a rally is taking place. It is saturday, Dec. 1st at High School East's football field from 12-2pm. There will be speakers, educational information, and more. Can someone submit an announcement? Thanks.

I've been having alot of people ask me if we're going to be selling tapes from the comedy hypnosis night. I'm curious, are we going to do this?

Invitations to Post

Many of you have not accepted the invitation that was sent to you to be a "posting" member of this site.......please do so even if you have nothing to say at the moment!

Ricky, I cannot read your email address so you may not have gotten the email!

This Friday's Meeting Is Cancelled

I need to cancel this Friday's meeting as I will be on a plane to Seattle. Unfortunately, I cannot meet any other day this week either. Next Friday we don't have school due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

This is just bad timing. I really did want to debrief the Comedy Hypnosis show and we also need to move forward with plans for the Darfur Rally being held at East on Saturday, December 1st. Please try to plan accordingly now to be able to go to that event. We will have a table and will need people to be at that table. We now have a nice tri-fold information board and we have a new board already to be done up! Stasia has some great color images that we can add to it and also add some information. We also have the brochures and the flyers all ready that we can use. In addition, we can have the jug on the table. The big things are getting people to show up, maybe making up that one other tri-fold board, and helping Harrini and Daniella who agreed to speak at the event! Also, I cannot go to the event so all of the materials need to be taken on the Friday before by those who will be attending.

Long story short, no meeting this Friday or next Friday. The Friday after that is November 30th, the day before the rally. We will meet. If anyone is able to help ahead of time with any of the tasks mentioned, please stop by F206! Thanks.