HUA Budget Spring 2009

Meeting Information

 * Meeting Frequency: bimonthly
 * Number of Meeting: 8
 * Projected Attendance: 30

Meeting Expenses

 * Total Food: $ 360
 * Advertising: $ 10
 * Magic Board: $ 10
 * TOTAL: $ 380
 * Publications

Publication Information

 * Name: Hampshire Independent News
 * Issues: 1200
 * Description: Due to the problematic, uninformed content circulated by the Climax, Hampshire Union of Activists would like to offer a more truthful representation of relevant news and topics at Hampshire. This will probably consist of 2 issues of the same publication in the spring semester and we will probably print 600 copies of each.

Publication Expenses

 * TOTAL: $ 250

Screening Information

 * Title:The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
 * Location:FPH
 * Description:The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. This feature length movie explores their extraordinary struggle for justice while incarcerated in Angola, a former slave plantation where institutionalized rape and murder made it known as one of the most brutal and racist prisons in the United States. The analysis of the Angola 3’s political work, and the criminal cases used to isolate and silence them, occurs within the context of the widespread COINTELPRO being carried out in the 1960’s and 70’s by the FBI and state law enforcement against militant voices for change. In a partial victory, the courts exonerated Robert King of the original charges and released him in 2001; he continues the fight for the freedom of his two brothers. The ongoing campaign, which includes a civil case soon to come before the Supreme Court, is supported by people and organizations such as Amnesty International, the A.C.L.U., Harry Belafonte, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, Ramsey Clark, Sen. John Conyers, Sister Helen Prejean, (the late) Anita Roddick, Bishop Desmond Tutu and the ANC. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have now endured as political prisoners in solitary confinement for over thirty-five years. Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal, The Angola 3 features interviews with former Panthers, political prisoners and revolutionaries, including the Angola 3 themselves, and Bo Brown, Geronimo (ji Jaga) Pratt, Malik Rahim, Yuri Kochiyama, David Hilliard, Rod Coronado, Noelle Hanrahan, Kiilu Nyasha, Marion Brown, Luis Talamantez, Gail Shaw and many others. Portions of the proceeds go to support the Angola 3. Features the music of Truth Universal written by Tajiri Kamau.


 * Projected Attendance:30

Screening Expenses

 * Rental: $ 5
 * Advertising: $5
 * Food: $ 30
 * TOTAL: $ 40

Screening Information

 * Title:Black and Gold
 * Location:FPH
 * Description:In 1994, the Latin Kings - the largest and most powerful street gang in New York - became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claimed to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords. With over 3,000 members in New York, some saw the Latin King and Queen Nation as the most important political voice to rise from the streets in decades. The NYPD did not agree, calling them a vicious gang with a PR campaign. One thing is certain, the City was never the same after the Nation went downtown. In 1997 Big Noise films became the only media group ever given unrestricted access to the Nation. For two years they ran with the Kings and Queens in New York City, filming on the front lines of their everyday struggle for survival. Black and Gold explores a reality that is too often reduced to a stereotype or a slogan. Its unblinking lens puts you at the center of a complex and controversial movement. The Nation was one of the major forces that made police violence and the prison system political issues in New York City. But from the beginning the NYPD has questioned the sincerity of the Nation's political involvement, and has systematically worked to dismantle what they see as the most dangerous street gang in the City. Their efforts culminated in a spectacular midnight raid on May 15, 1998 when over 1,000 Federal and City agents simultaneously raided homes across the city making over 100 arrests in what was the largest coordinated FBI action since prohibition.


 * Projected Attendance:30

Screening Expenses

 * Rental: $ 5
 * Advertising: $ 5
 * Food: $ 60
 * TOTAL: $ 70

Trip Information

 * Name:Anti-War March
 * Attendance:25
 * Date:March 17
 * Destination:Washington D.C.
 * Description:Anti war march and rally
 * Event Upon Return:Reportback, presentation, and discussion on anti war strategy

Trip Expenses

 * Lodging: $500
 * Other: $5
 * Description of Other:
 * TOTAL: $505

Equipment Information

 * Name: megaphones
 * Description: makes voice louder
 * Purpose: to use at marches, rallies, and protests, to buy 2 megaphones
 * Storage Location: media services

Equipment Expenses

 * TOTAL: $80

Equipment Information

 * Name: poster and banner material
 * Description: paint, posters, paper, paintbrushes, fabric, pens, scissors
 * Purpose: to creatively communicate shared political messages
 * Storage Location: media services

Equipment Expenses

 * TOTAL: $ 100

Events

 * Name of Event: Shutting Things Down to Open Things Up
 * Date of the event (best approximate possible): 3/15/09
 * Projected Attendance: 30
 * Description of Event: Lisa Fithian, an experienced direct action and organizing trainer, will give a training on consolidating power and organizing successful campaigns. She will address a variety of political tactics in the context of a broader, multi-faceted strategy toward social change. This will be a 4-6 hour long interactive workshop.
 * Description of Performer (if applicable): Lisa Fithian is a community and labor organizer with 27 years of nonviolent direct action experience. Over the past year Lisa has worked extensively in the Global Justice movement and helped found the Continental Direct Action Network. Lisa provided trainings and was actively involved in the SHUT-DOWN of the WTO in SEATTLE. She played a coordinating role between the R2K-D2K efforts at the Republican and Democratic Conventions, with her primary focus on the Democratic Convention in LA. Lisa led nonviolent direct action trainings and helped facilitate the street actions at the IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington DC (2000, 2001, 2002), Prague and Ottawa, at the FTAA Summit in Quebec and at the G8 meetings in Genoa, Italy and Calgary, Canada. Her work had often involved facilitating dialogue among diverse groups within the movement. This was especially true after 9-11 and the War on Terrorism (and Iraq), where Lisa continues to weave global justice and anti-war efforts together.
 * Advertising $: 15
 * Food $: 120
 * Magic Board Cost $: $5.00 (one day)
 * Sound and Lights Rentals $:
 * Security $:
 * Performer Honorarium $: 500
 * Other Costs $: 300


 * TOTAL APPROVED $: 640
 * Comments from The Committee on Community Activities (COCA): Please see COCA for additional funding for “other.


 * Name of Event: Justice For Jason Benefit
 * Date of the event (best approximate possible): February 5, 2009
 * Projected Attendance: 150
 * Description of Event: Fundraiser benefit concert at saga including food, t-shirts and buttons for sale. Funds will go toward Jason Vassell's legal fees.
 * Description of Performer (if applicable): A few local bands
 * Advertising $: 30
 * Food $: 300
 * Magic Board Cost $: $10.00 (two days)
 * Sound and Lights Rentals $: 200
 * Security $: 100
 * Performer Honorarium $: 1000
 * Other Costs $: 500


 * TOTAL APPROVED $: $0
 * Comments from The Committee on Community Activities (COCA): Further clarification needed, please see COCA