JOIN A SAVE THE CHE CAFE CAMPAIGN WORK GROUP? The Save the CHE Cafe campaign continues. The collective meetings are still in the CHE Cafe every Monday night at 7 pm. Come if you can. For our most recent update news about the campaign, please see our blog post at http://thechecafe.blogspot.com/2015/02/update.html We are asking supporters to join any of a number of CCSN Work Groups. All are in constant need of more volunteers. To join a CCSN Work Group, please call 858-373-7018 or send an email to thechecafe@gmail.com. Make sure you say "CCSN Work Group". These are not the same as the normal work groups that keep the CHE Cafe operations going. The current ones (more may always be added) are: Save the C.H.E. Cafe campaign Work Groups: 1. Fundraising The members of this group are responsible for organizing ongoing fundraisers to support the CHE. This includes benefits and appeals to individual donors and to unions and organizations. They are also responsible organizing a bail fund as a back up contingency. 2. Artists' Boycott of UCSD The members of this group are responsible for reaching out to all kinds of artists, musicians, and bands to support the boycott. 3. Recruitment The members of this group are responsible for bringing new volunteers into the support network work groups and into the collective. 4. Protest Mobilization The members of this group are responsible for organizing ongoing protests as well as the crisis mobilization plan. Members will monitor the UCSD events calendars and identify protest opportunity "targets" (e.g., Founders Day, etc.) and creative tactics for making our message clear. The crisis mobilization plan includes: recruiting people to sign on to the Rapid Response Team list, finding members who will volunteer to occupy the CHE on a 24/7 basis if necessary, gathering a list of members willing to be arrested for civil disobedience, and coordinating with attorneys, and the fundraising group for bail plans. 5. Press The members of this group are responsible for creating press releases for our review/approval and distribution of releases and making contact and answering questions by the press. 6. Outreach The members of this group are responsible for education, updating and agitation of campus and community support. Closely related to Press Work Group. 7. Historical Site Preservation: The members of this group are responsible for researching and compiling on the google doc the political, cultural and social significance of the space that is now the CHE over the last 50 years. The group is to work closely with Historical Preservationist Jaye McCaskill in her bid to have the CHE designated as a state and national place of historic interest AKA state and national historic landmark. 8. Student Governments The members of this group are responsible for attending and/or speaking at AS and GSA and UCAB meetings, and recruiting people to do this, and reporting back to the support network and collective. Some members are to be liaisons with committees of the AS and GSA and UCAB. Some members will work on drafting/reviewing documents/proposals. 9. CHE Cafe OPEN HOURS and Services The members of this group are responsible for exploring ways for the CHE to be open and accessible as a community center (and show "signs of life"). Daytime open hours are a priority. Offering coffee, tea and a wi-fi study space is a minimum goal. We started doing this Fall Quarter 2014 and as staffing allows, we continue and hope to expand it. 10. Legal Support Fronts The members of this group are responsible for litigation and negotiation work and for recruiting attorneys, paralegals and law students to volunteer time. Also, documents research, public records act requests and writing.