Events

Mercy Corps and our Global Citizen Corps
initiative are excited to announce that the 2009-2010 Global Citizen
Corps Leadership program is now open and accepting
applicants!

The Global Citizen Corps Leadership program is a
national network of high school student leaders who educate and mobilize their
schools and communities to fight global poverty. Every year, Mercy Corps selects
200 Leaders to gain the knowledge and skills to become effective anti-poverty
experts through in-person and online trainings. Throughout the year, Global
Citizen Corps Leaders organize Global Action Days to inform and inspire their
classmates to take action on poverty and related issues like hunger, HIV/AIDS,
climate change and access to education.

If you know high school students who
are ready to stand at the forefront of the fight for a better world, you can
help spread the word and build the movement.

Here's how:

• Post the Global Citizen Corps announcement on your
  website or in your newsletter and encourage students to apply.
• Tell educators about the Global Citizen Corps
  Leadership program and how they can promote it at their schools.
• Tell students about the Global Citizen Corps
  Leadership program and how they can get involved.

For more information on Global Citizen Corps please
visit http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/.

To apply to be a Global Citizen Corps
Leader, go to: http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/about.htm?page=about_apply.

Thank you for passing on the torch and helping
empower a new generation of globally-minded youth to fight global poverty.
Encourage high school students to apply to be a leader today!

If you have any questions please feel free to contact
Amie Wells directly at 503.328.0259 or via email at awells@mercycorps.org.

PDX Peace Coalition Membership Meeting:

All organizational and individual members are encouraged to attend.
This is the meeting of the general membership of the coalition where
all proposals and budgets are approved by the members.

Monday, February 9

7:00-9:00 PM
Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse
4317 SE Stark St. Portland

Hello all,

Here is the draft agenda from the Coordinating Committee for Monday's meeting. After several discussions in different groups, we are all worried about our capacity for the April activities, so felt that we needed to take a step back and evaluate the context of exactly what we are trying to accomplish in April. And after that we will be better able to make clear decisions by the end of the meeting about the specifics of the April event.

So, we have worked some discussion and strategizing into the meeting agenda we propose below. If anyone has any concerns or would like to propose a change to the agenda, please either respond to the Planning list, or email: coordinatingcommittee@lists.pdxpeace.org

Thanks, see you Monday!
katie
coordinating committee
katie@pdxpeace.org

PDX Peace Coalition Membership Meeting:

All organizational and individual members are encouraged to attend. This is the meeting of the general membership of the coalition where all proposals and budgets are approved by the members.

Monday, February 9
7:00-9:00 PM
Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse
4317 SE Stark St. Portland

Proposed Agenda

1. introductions, groundrules, agenda review/approval, pass the hat. (10 min)

2. Financial Report [Megan] (5 min)

3. Discussion: Current Political Context (15 min

4. Brainstorm: Goals of the coalition (10 min)

5. Brainstorm: Potential tactics to achieve those goals (10 min)

- attempting to think farther ahead than we have been, we will try to start framing our discussions in terms of what we want to do over the next 8-12 months.

6. Strategize: Character of April Event (30 min)

- we need to spend some time figuring out exactly what we want to accomplish with the April event

7. Decision: April 4 Schedule (30 min)

8. Next Meeting (5 min)

9. Announcements (10 min)

Feb. 9, 2009 7pm: Plan Colombia

"Cashing in on the Drug War Failure"

-Plan Colombia exposes the hypocrisy and destructive nature of the

U.S. government's failed "War on Drugs" and the controversial Plan

Colombia.

This event is sponsored by Colombia Support Network and will be held at  Whitefeather Peace Community 3315 N. Russet in Portland.  For more information contact Wesley Hill at 936-537-1155.

Paz y justicia

www.colombiasupport.net