[Peace-discuss] to move AWARE meetings or not to move AWARE meetings / that is the question

[C. G. Estabrook]

I thought Linda Weber had made arrangement for meeting (if not storage space) in 
a church (with parking) near campus.  I suggest we met there Sunday and ask the 
IMC for a refund.  I'll check on storage space in downtown Champaign. --CGE

Karen Medina wrote:
> Dear Peace Discuss,
> 
> At the past two AWARE meetings, we have discussed the possibility of
> moving our meetings out of the IMC.
> 
> Reasons:
> 1) Low AWARE meeting attendance. High rent.
> 2) Noise level on Sunday evenings.
> 3) Ruined demonstration posters -- the recent fiasco with the IMC
> moving our demonstration posters and then getting them water-soaked.
> 
> Rent to the IMC for the meeting space is $800 per year.
> Low attendance: When we were having about 20 people per meeting, we
> could afford the expense; and of course the IMC was a "good cause".
> Now that we have 3-6 people per meeting sometimes, we really need to
> cut back on our overhead.
> 
> Noise: There has been an increase in the number of musicians who want
> to practice during our meeting times. Noise carries, from upstairs
> down to the Grandpa Wahlfeldt room, but also the drums from the room
> right next door. Already the acoustics in that room were not the best.
> 
> We had to throw out many signs. We had paid rent for the office space,
> but the IMC rented that room out from under us and asked us to move
> our signs to a different "safe place". They did not refund our rent
> money that we had paid ahead. Then they moved us out of the "safe
> place" into the boiler room. In that boiler room, our stuff mixed with
> other stuff and it got hard to figure out what was ours. Then, without
> notifying us, they moved us from one boiler room to boiler room #3
> back in the bowels. On that day, we were doing a demonstration on
> campus with CAN. We could not find our signs. Then, a few weeks later,
> that area flooded. Our bags had some holes in them from much use over
> the years. The bags held the moisture in. Some mould resulted, but
> mostly the messages on the signs ran and the integrity of the signs
> was greatly diminished.
> 
> I just wanted to let people know that this issue is being talked about
> in the AWARE meetings.
> 
> -- karen medina
> 

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