2024-07-24 WCU Steering Committee Meeting
Attendance
Campaign Coordinator: @chima
Membership Coordinator: @HipGnosis
Treasurer: @Turcotte
Secretary: @Robert_H
Meeting Notes
Dates Voted On At the General Meeting
August 10th 10AM - 2PM; Bylaw Review
Social Event - Some Sunday
July 31st at Oddfellows Labor for Palestine Event All Workers Invited
General Meeting August 1st
- Reading Group: Pick Next Reading
August 5th Working Meeting
August 12th Steering Committee Meeting
August 19th Super Working Meeting
We need to renew TU Campaign
NVFG Needs to have an update that has us moving to phase II (so data on Phase 1 presented)
Minutes from since we switched to our calendar focused agenda that need approval
Still have if there are no objections, then the minutes are approved.
Extend meeting 6-7:30pm
- 30 minutes for Constructive Criticism
Schedule every 3 months to the end of 2025 for issues that WCU will write and publish about. Try to pick issues that will set us apart from the local Dems or broader “progressive’ scene.
Talk about posters at the GM.
Tentatively
August 4th 5-7 Social Event
August 29th Reading Group
August 31st New Member Orientation
Assign Later (Monday/Thursday)
Create the one page flyer
Send the texts that Peter drafted
Two more canvassing events (1 to invite people to the BBQ)
Have a BBQ that late in the evening but meant as a intro to the CalVilla TU + information sharing with WCU
Schedule day in late August to go to the Stockton Code Enforcement to drop off letter (2-3 tenants would be great)
NVFG
- Post the new phone banking script to get feedback
- We need to edit the pledge to account for Harris
- Need to put more things to Josh - have a thing that needs to be done like Sanction Israel
- We need to work with Members to work on social media posts about Harris’s historic and current record on Israel/Palestine to correct the record + her relationship to the tech bros
- Canvassing: If we can hand out links to the handbook and general TU is good stuff + Palestine stuff to make that work neutral.
- If we can find tabling, then we can do TU + Labor + NVFG 2:1 ratio on non-political actions (Foor4Less worker co-op; Rancho San Miguel’s)
- We need to make spanish version of the pledge; include Sheinbaum’s quote on the spanish literature
- Schedule phone banking days.
- Make the posts for the petition and start sharing and getting signatures
Task
- Take the Chima for Congress Under 18 Volunteer Form and Convert for WCU
- For people under 18, have optional 100% off coupon for member registration
- PUT ON AGENDA FOR GENERAL MEETING