From: "Pope, Karen O." <POPEKJ@uwec.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:14:56 -0500 Subject: RE: Report and NOTES FROM MAY SFPJ MEETING ATTACHED Message-ID: <4F19260FE7477F4DA03B00B62E7F63903DA7ECAE73@CHERRYPEPSI.uwec.edu>
Bob:
This is getting to be a wonderfully progressive place, thanks to work by yo
u and others!
I am so glad to read all your news.
Dear SFPJ:
Attached are the NOTES FROM THE MAY SFPJ MEETING at which time we discussed
an SFPJ annual Eberth Alarcon memorial peace and justice event.
Please read, comment to ALL and I guess the next step will be to have a gen
eral meeting to discuss. It would be great if someone on campus could orga
nize that--any volunteers?
I recently ran the May notes by Asha, and the current attachment includes h
er thoughts and comments. Thanks to Asha and Kate.
karen
popekj@uwec.edu<mailto:popekj@uwec.edu>
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From: sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu [sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On
Behalf Of Nowlan, Robert A. [RANOWLAN@uwec.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:17 PM
To: sfpj@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Report and Run-Down on a Number of Campus/Community Progressive Or
ganizations
Friends, SFPJ:
For your information, and also to encourage any and all among you able
and interesting in helping out to contact me about doing so, I'm sending yo
u a current report and run-down on a number of campus and community progres
sive organizations. Details below.
Bob Nowlan
Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival and Series
Now beginning our third consecutive year we are expanding to include a
monthly screening and discussion series--with events to take place in Octob
er, November, December, February, March, and May--as well as a ten-day fest
ival in April. Our first series event will take place this October 10, at
8 pm, in Davies Theater, with a screening and discussion of Ken Loach's 20
06 Cannes Film Festival top prize award-winning film The Wind That Shakes t
he Barley, starring Cillian Murphy. We are also organizing as an official
student organization that will operate throughout the academic year, as wel
l as continuing to offer students the chance to enroll in a spring semester
Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival class for course or service-learning
credit. We will keep you informed as we proceed in developing our series a
nd festival schedules, including we hope in bringing interesting guest pres
enters and performers to campus, but we also definitely welcome your suppor
t and assistance in whatever way you can give it. We especially hope that
attendance at our series and festival sessions, free as always, will be hig
h; we are one local campus and community organization that does scrupulousl
y follow the legal requirement to obtain official permission and pay corres
ponding fees to those who own the public performance rights for all the fil
ms we screen (unlike most other such groups, sad to say, who run the risk o
f legal difficulties every time they don't do this and every time they adve
rtise a screening as open to a public audience--whether they charge an entr
ance fee or not). If we have strong attendance and participation in our s
essions it more than makes up for the cost involved in putting this on for
the community. For more information, contact Bob Nowlan, Executive Direc
tor, the Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival and Series, at tor, the Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival and Series, at ranowlan@uwec.
edu<mailto:ranowlan@uwec.edu>, or John Nicksic, nicksijs@uwec.edu<mailto:ni
cksijs@uwec.edu>, Director, the Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival and Se
ries.
Progressive Media Network
The Progressive Media Network (PMN) is a campus and community organization
dedicated to fostering progressive alternatives to dominant corporate media
in Eau Claire, in the Chippewa Valley, and in West-Central and Northwest W
isconsin. PMN produces Progressive Outpost and is the principal sponsor of
the Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival–and Series. PMN is also a prin
cipal contributor to WHYS Community Radio. PMN is interested in working, o
ver the long haul, to develop and carry out progressive interventions in pr
int, radio, television, film, video, musical, artistic, theatrical, and ele
ctronic media. Progressive UWEC staff and faculty, as well as progressive
community members are most welcome to write for Progressive Outpost--and, a
lso, to pass on story ideas to us. And again, we could certainly use your
financial support to help us insure that this venture will continue over th
e long-haul. And we can use additional people actively involved with our e
fforts so that we can not only improve what we do with Progressive Outpost
but also expand to meet our long-term goals of making a substantial impact
in television, music, art, theatre, and the internet/world wide web as well
as in radio, film, and print. We are working on pursuing mechanisms for l
ong-term financial support, but that will take time; ultimately, we would l
ike to reach the point where we can hire someone full-time as our PMN gener
al manager. Finally, if you would like to make sure you receive a copy of
an issue of Progressive Outpost when it is in print, and don't find it easy
to pick up at the locations where we normally distribute let me know and w
e'll get a copy to you. (Plus help with distribution is welcome too! Righ
t now PMN is, for all practical purposes, just two people.) Our plans for
this academic year, at the moment, include publishing issues in November,
February, and April, all near the very beginning of the month. For more in
formation, contact PMN Co-Executive Directors, Jeremy Gragert, formation, contact PMN Co-Executive Directors, Jeremy Gragert, gragerje@uwe
c.edu<mailto:gragertje@uwec.edu,>, or Bob Nowlan, ranowlan@uwec.edu<mailto:
ranowlan@uwec.edu>.
Progressive Student Association
Since leading the build-up of opposition on this campus to the impending Ir
aq War from the fall of 2002 onward, the Progressive Student Association (P
SA) has worked hard to serve as the foremost progressive student activist o
rganization here at UWEC. Over the past five years many students intereste
d in acting publicly to help make a difference in efforts directed toward h
uman emancipation, social justice, collective equality, ecological sustaina
bility, and a peaceful world have worked through the Progressive Student As
sociation. PSA has taken the lead in making things happen, in organizing l
ocal efforts right here at UWEC to work, and to fight, for progressive soci
al change. PSA is the kind of organization that is very much open to new c
ontributions, new ideas, new energy, and new focuses. PSA is an umbrella o
rganization welcoming enthusiastic, energetic activists of all kinds – fr
om left-liberal Democrats to Greens to Anarchists to Socialists and more.
Right now we are in need of more students to become actively involved; we
have recruited a number of prospects at the recent Blugold Organizations Ba
sh, but I want to strongly encourage you to in turn strongly encourage prog
ressive students you know to get involved with PSA. We need them. For mor
e information, contact Dana Thompson, President, thompsod@uwec.edu<mailto:t
hompsod@uwec.edu> or Bob Nowlan, Faculty Advisor, ranowlan@uwec.edu<mailto:
ranowlan@uwec.edu>.
Progressive Film and Video Makers
Replacing the now effectively defunct TILT Student Filmmaking Society, Prog
ressive Film and Video Makers is forming, starting this fall, to unite the
efforts of students, staff, faculty, and community members interested in ma
king explicitly progressive movies–and, in particular, movies that activ
ely represent, and advance, explicitly progressive values. Documentary, fi
ction, hybrid, and experimental videos are all possibilities. And people c
an help out through learning, including from scratch, in any one or more of
the following areas: writing, shooting, recording, editing, designing, act
ing, directing, producing, distributing, and exhibiting. Again, we have a
number of students, staff, and community members who have already expressed
considerable preliminary interest in being involved with this new organiza
tion, which we aim to make an official UWEC student organization this fall,
but we could certainly use more help and support--including suggestions of
specific ideas for projects, and assistance in gaining access to equipment
and other resources that we'll need to make these films and videos. For
more information , contact Bob Nowlan, Faculty Advisor, ranowlan@uwec.edu<m
ailto:ranowlan@uwec.edu>.
WHYS-UWEC
In helping represent Eau Claire’s independent, alternative, progressive,
community radio station, WHYS, 96.3 FM, right here on the UWEC campus we ar
e also forming a brand-new official UWEC student organization, WHYS-UWEC, t
his fall as well. Students who become involved can learn more about radio
broadcasting, production, promotion, fundraising, and working closely with
diverse local and extra-local non-profit, progressive, community-based orga
nizations and initiatives. They also can work to help forge strong connect
ions between WHYS and musicians, artists, scholars, teachers, students, and
other newsmakers based at UWEC. They can furthermore work to help promote
and strengthen the development of local–including UWEC campus–musical
and cultural production and performance, as well as local (again including
UWEC) news and public affairs radio reporting and broadcasting. And, final
ly, they can work to help find ways to make WHYS a central part of everyday
life on the UWEC campus and to forge collaborative connections between WHY
S and other broadcast media on campus and in the greater Eau Claire communi
ty. Although I've just mentioned students as our principal initial target
audience for membership in this new organizational initiative, progressive
faculty and staff at UWEC are also certainly welcome to help us out as well
, including in realizing some of the prospective goals for what our organiz
ation might do that I've sketched above. For more information, contact Stu
dent Co-Coordinators, Brendon Hertz, hertzbj@uwec.edu<mailto:<mailto:hertzbj@uwec.e
du>, and Chris Malina, malinacd@uwec.edu<mailto:malinacd@uwec.edu>, or Bob
Nowlan, Faculty Advisor and WHYS Coordinator/Facilitator, ranowlan@uwec.edu
<mailto:ranowlan@uwec.edu>.
ACLU-UWEC
Starting this fall 2007 semester the Chippewa Valley chapter of the America
n Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is seeking to establish an official ne
w student organization here at UWEC, ACLU-UWEC. Students involved with AC
LU-UWEC will represent the ACLU and its now nearly century-long mission of
fearlessly defending freedom everywhere right here on campus, at UWEC, and
work in close collaboration with the Chippewa Valley Civil Liberties Union,
the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union, and the American Civil Liberties Unio
n. This work may well include helping out in hosting visiting speakers, as
well as helping out in organizing on-campus workshops, forums, teach-ins,
creative productions and performances, rallies, marches, vigils, and other
protests and actions focusing on fighting back whenever our fundamental civ
il liberties–and human rights–are under attack, right here in Eau Clair
e or anywhere in our community, state, and nation. And, again, although p
rogressive UWEC students are our principal initial target audience for mem
bership in this new organization, we welcome UWEC staff and faculty as well
as community members to help out as well. For more information contact: B
ob Nowlan, Faculty Advisor and Chippewa Valley Civil Liberties Union Vice-P
resident, ranowlan@uwec.edu<mailto:ranowlan@uwec.edu>, or Jeremy Gragert, C
hippewa Valley Civil Liberties Union Board of Directors, gragerje@uwec.edu<
mailto:gragerje@uwec.edu>, or Hannah Lott, provisional ACLU-UWEC President,
at lotthn@uwec.edu<mailto:lotthn@uwec.edu>.