JHR Meeting #9 – Minutes
February 7, 2007 – Café Solstice
Present: Nari Corley-Wheeler, Todd Price, Jacob Galfano
Website: Regina is in the process of developing a JHR-USA website; UW’s chapter will be added to this once complete. If anybody has ideas or suggestions about what this might look like, please email Regina. One example is Amnesty International’s UW site:
http://students.washington.edu/amnesty/
Race & Culture in the Media: A cohort of journalistas attended the event in Bellevue last night – which offered the Seattle Times’ Jerry Large and Colors Northwest’s Naomi Ishisaka. The keynote speakers were brief and let the audience do most of the work; this interactivity was facilitated by a set of philosophies for diverse group discussions as well as a sign that read: “Please sit next to people you don’t know!” Audio is available upon request: j4hr@u.washington.edu
Projects:
Guatemala human rights speaker: The event with Jillian Tuck was a success! Approximately forty people attended the talk, which was sponsored by JHR, Amnesty International, UW Latin-American Studies, UUCAN, and UW Center for Human Rights & Justice.
Jillian discussed a brief historical context before talking about on-the-ground stories of human rights violations and the struggle for justice. Her moving, poignant presentation was a sobering reminder of the state of human rights in Guatemala even today. But she lifted the audience with anecdotes of survival and hope, and her narratives were appreciated.
She also left the crowd with steps for action; if you would like to write letters or postcards please contact j4hr@u.washington.edu
Audio of the event is also available; please email JHR if you would like a copy.
- Newsletter: Drafts are in or will be in soon for the following articles:
- Homelesness: Jan/Nari/Todd/Lily/Jacob
- Sidebar/Statistics: Jan
- Gentrification in the CD: Jacob/Julie
- NISGUA/GAP/UUCAN w/resources: Nari
- YES! magazine: Human Rights & Interns (Spotlight on...):
Jacob/Nari
- Comic: Jacob
- Interactive/Poll (previous results for future issues)
- Future article/theme ideas:
- Safe Zone Project (?)
- Seattle Urban Debate (Jen Johnson?)
- World Social Forum (Davey D)
- Save Darfur Tour
- Hate-Free Zone (?)
- KBCS/Reclaim the Media (?)
Distribution is still being discussed; the Daily, Ruckus, and community spots like cafes and restaurants are all possible outlets. However, the Daily has quoted us a price of $500 per newsletter – which would require fundraising. JHR will be meeting with the Daily to discuss this. The first issue will be hand-distributed (we need volunteers!).
- Radio show: KBCS (at BCC – 91.3 fm) offers workshops to train volunteers to get onto the airwaves. Julie talked about establishing an independent media home at the Aaron Dixon Center, which also would promote the above-mentioned workshops. This home could act as a site to share content among other groups and organizations. Its public affairs section is an opportunity for JHR members to broadcast on the air. Still up in the air is a radio show through UW’s Rainy Dawg Radio.
- Documentary: JHR-USA director Regina Eddleman has established a connection with BJ Bullert, a local documentarian who might be willing to help out. If there is interest, BJ will be asked to speak at an upcoming JHR meeting.
- End of Year Event: A larger public meeting could allow us to screen an interview, host a speaker, or any other idea you may have. This would be a great way to segue into the summer months so that the following school year has a strong corpse of JHR members from the start. Also, the JHR official fundraising event (SpeakSilence) is to be held in October. This should be a focus for preparation at one of our final meetings of this school year.
- News Monitoring: A discussion has been started about JHR members participating in a news monitoring project that is currently being developed by local advocate Daniel Hannah. Daniel works for SCAN-TV and Reclaim the Media. There may be school credit or Work/Study payment available. This will be discussed at the next meeting.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be Wednesday, 2/14, time and location TBA. An email will be sent out.
The group is still accepting suggestions for optimal meeting times. Please send your desired day/time to j4hr@u.washington.edu
Tentative Agenda for meeting #10:
- Fundraising: Open-mic benefit
- Newsletter completion
- Text shopping (Following production of the newsletter)/Cross-X
- JHR-USA website input
- Aaron Dixon Center/Hip-hop Congress (Georgia Roberts)
- Banner
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