[fvc-wat-announce] Meetings, Global Citizenship Conference, Feds Club, new list

[Paul Nijjar]

 	There's a lot of little things happening over the next few weeks, 
so I thought I would send out an announcement to get everybody up to date.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE:
 	This is a conference being held at Wilfrid Laurier University from 
March 9-11. Among other things, Stephen Lewis will be speaking at the 
conference. See: http://www.gcclaurier.org/index.php for more info.
 	We will have a booth at the conference, and it looks like we will 
be part of a panel discussion. Help us make this event a success! You can 
help out by helping get our display ready, or by volunteering to staff the 
booth for a shift or two over the weekend.

MEETINGS:
 	At the meetings, we will be discussing upcoming events, organizing 
people to help with outreach and speaking, preparing chapter materials, 
looking into booking more permanent rooms, writing editorial pieces and 
more. Please join us at a meeting and help out if you can.

KITCHENER MEETING:
         We have the upstairs room at 43 Queen Street South booked for
Thursday the 22nd, from 6:30-8:00pm.

WATERLOO MEETING:
         We have room N1056 booked in the Science Building of Wilfrid
Laurier University on Wed Feb 28, from 7:30pm on.

FEDS CLUB:
 	If you are a University of Waterloo undergrad who might be 
interested in participating in a campus Fair Vote Canada club, please 
contact Nick.Rolfe at fairvote.ca . A campus club would make it a lot easier 
for us to do outreach at the University of Waterloo (with its 20K 
students!) but the deadline to get the paperwork in is coming up this 
week!

FVC-WAT-MEDIA:
         Eleanor was mentioning that it would be useful to have a source
of fair voting press releases and media coverage so that she could
learn more about the issue and get some inspiration for writing
editorials, letters to the editor, press releases, etc. Derek gets a
bunch of these releases through the Fair Vote Ontario list, but rather
than flooding fvc-wat-disc with these releases we decided to make a
third mailing list, which you can join here:

http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-media

         Expect this list to have moderately heavy traffic. It should be
a good resource for those who want to learn more about voting systems
and the kinds of arguments people make for and against it.

- Paul