Housekeeping

Hey folks,

A few housekeeping issues following yesterday's excellent meeting:

Just to clarify, we agreed to invite Ted to join the reading group, and I suppose Jon will contact him with details of next meeting. While I don't think we finalised a maximum group size, the number a few us mentioned was eight. Does that sound OK? With Ted, there will be seven of us.

We also started to organise a second event on the Zapatista sixth declaration, tentatively scheduled for Thursday February 23. At our next meeting (February 10, at Sebastian's house, from 3 to 6pm), we will devote two hours to discussion of Jason Read's Chapter 2 and one hour to organising the event. We are all to read the Sexta (available at http://www.eco.utexas.edu/facstaff/Cleaver/TheOtherCampaign.html ) and think of a few suitable five minute passages (we are aiming to have four such passages). Sebastian suggested we also think of three or four questions to guide the 45 minute discussion following the reading. In the meantime, Fiona volunteered to contact Spartacus about space availability, and also to find four potential readers (two in English and two in Spanish). She also volunteered to get some Zapatista images to project during the reading, but maybe we can all engage in that (the goal is to put them on powerpoint and borrow a projector, I might be able to do that from my department). We all agreed to make a few copies of the selected passages in English and Spanish so the audience can read translations simultaneously. Finally, Scott volunteered to use his Serving It Right ticket to get a liquor license and buy some beer and juice for selling at the event (profits will go to Spartacus).

A third Ungrammatical Multitude event was tentatively scheduled for Thursday March 23 (?) on the theme of Colectivo Situaciones. More on that later.

See you all on February 10, if not earlier.

-Pablo