Women's Officer Report: Reclaim the Night North
Report:
All week I've been massively busy with Reclaim the Night organisation which has taken up pretty much all my time. This has included; postering, flyering, lecture shouts, door knocking, chatting to students, finalising speakers, coaches, police liasion, banner making, tshirt making, placard making, setting up rooms, steward training, press releases and speaking to the press. My report below doesn't repeat all this but just lists the other things I've been up to besides all this!
Monday 16
- Door knocking and flyer making/flyering for the General Meeting on Wednesday
Tuesday 17
- Attended 'Environmental Direct Action a History' talk.
Wednesday 18
- General meeting promotion and attendance
- Talk at Coventry University on Cross Liberation - how the LGBT and women's movement can work together.
Thursday 19
- Riveters meeting
- Impromtu exec meeting about 'Gaza Crisis' presentation at president's meeting
Friday 20
- Pre-meeting and meeting with Alan Gilbert about a number of issues. Got confirmation that nurseries would not be cut and students' children would be covered by child protection policy.
Saturday 21
- Reclaim the Night (which, by the way, was fantastic! Over 250 feminists and women took to the streets to reclaim our spaces from gender-based violence. With inspirational speakers, performers, fair trade tea and those who believe violence is wrong we took back our spaces!)
Sunday 22
- NUS Women's Campaign Conference compositing in London.
Monday, 23 February 2009
Monday, 16 February 2009
Women's Officering 7th - 14th Feb
Women's Officering 7th - 14th Feb
Saturday 7th Feb:
- Met with a member of the Riveters to discuss campaigns this term.
- Finished editing and organising the Riveter magazine so it could be sent to print.
Monday 9th Feb:
- Attended the NUS’ Mental Health Awareness Day at Manchester, which was really useful and inciteful.
- Attended the second meeting for Lis, the Riveters play where people were cast into roles and sent the information to the women’s prison.
- Attended and promoted ‘The Birthday’ screening about being trans in Iran.
Tursday 10th Feb:
- Staffed the stall at the Refreshers fair for the Riveters and the LGBT society, where I spoke to loads of students and got them interested in joining.
- Promoted the priorities ballot for the general meeting and my motion ‘Increasing Opportunities for Accountability, Transparancy and Access in the Union’ was voted 2nd.
- Printed and collected the Riveter
- Assisted Ellie in the ‘How to Run for Elections’ workshop, focusing on encouraging individuals from the liberation campaigns to run.
Wednesday 11th Feb:
- Emergency General Meeting on Gaza, facilitated the chair with ensuring the meeting ran smoothly.
- Evict RBS demo on the roof of RBS to protest their funding of unsustainable power and ensuing the Union’s spaces are leased to ethical organisations and companies.
- Organised and planned for the LGBT impromptu tea party for LGBT Awareness Week.
- Ran (with Ellie) the ‘How To Reach Hard to Reach Students’ workshop for the first ever course rep conference in Manchester and facilitated part of the discussion on education funding.
Thursday 12th Feb:
- Attended the Student Parents Launch in Birmingham, a fantastic day of workshops, acitivities and networking to ensure student parents rights are fought for in the Union.
- Was VERY happy to hear the Riveters ‘Bring a Friend’ event worked well, as did the LGBT impromptu tea party ☺
Friday 13th Feb:
- Frantically re-sent amendments for NUS Women’s Conference to NUS.
- Attended the UMSU Governance Day.
- Finalised the plans for attending ‘Gender, Race and Class’ the anti-capitalist feminist conference, including going to Salford to retrieve the bus!
- Casework and caught up with emails.
Saturday 14th Feb:
- Attended Gender, Race and Class in London with a delegation from Manchester. It was FANTASTIC and we all wished it had lasted longer. A huge thanks to Hazel for driving us there and back!
Saturday 7th Feb:
- Met with a member of the Riveters to discuss campaigns this term.
- Finished editing and organising the Riveter magazine so it could be sent to print.
Monday 9th Feb:
- Attended the NUS’ Mental Health Awareness Day at Manchester, which was really useful and inciteful.
- Attended the second meeting for Lis, the Riveters play where people were cast into roles and sent the information to the women’s prison.
- Attended and promoted ‘The Birthday’ screening about being trans in Iran.
Tursday 10th Feb:
- Staffed the stall at the Refreshers fair for the Riveters and the LGBT society, where I spoke to loads of students and got them interested in joining.
- Promoted the priorities ballot for the general meeting and my motion ‘Increasing Opportunities for Accountability, Transparancy and Access in the Union’ was voted 2nd.
- Printed and collected the Riveter
- Assisted Ellie in the ‘How to Run for Elections’ workshop, focusing on encouraging individuals from the liberation campaigns to run.
Wednesday 11th Feb:
- Emergency General Meeting on Gaza, facilitated the chair with ensuring the meeting ran smoothly.
- Evict RBS demo on the roof of RBS to protest their funding of unsustainable power and ensuing the Union’s spaces are leased to ethical organisations and companies.
- Organised and planned for the LGBT impromptu tea party for LGBT Awareness Week.
- Ran (with Ellie) the ‘How To Reach Hard to Reach Students’ workshop for the first ever course rep conference in Manchester and facilitated part of the discussion on education funding.
Thursday 12th Feb:
- Attended the Student Parents Launch in Birmingham, a fantastic day of workshops, acitivities and networking to ensure student parents rights are fought for in the Union.
- Was VERY happy to hear the Riveters ‘Bring a Friend’ event worked well, as did the LGBT impromptu tea party ☺
Friday 13th Feb:
- Frantically re-sent amendments for NUS Women’s Conference to NUS.
- Attended the UMSU Governance Day.
- Finalised the plans for attending ‘Gender, Race and Class’ the anti-capitalist feminist conference, including going to Salford to retrieve the bus!
- Casework and caught up with emails.
Saturday 14th Feb:
- Attended Gender, Race and Class in London with a delegation from Manchester. It was FANTASTIC and we all wished it had lasted longer. A huge thanks to Hazel for driving us there and back!
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