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UHRC's strategy for next semester.
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From: "Kathy
Polias" <kpolias@uyghurs.org>
I just wanted to let you know that the Uyghur Human Rights Coalition's Executive
Board decided at its meeting last week to change the UHRC's strategy for next
semester. Rather than continuing to do ONE presentation at MANY
universities, we have chosen six "FOCUS" schools to BOMBARD with
Uyghur human rights activities. Those six schools will be: American
University (DC), George Washington University (DC), University of
Maryland-College Park (MD), Stanford University (CA), UC-Berkeley (CA), and
University of Washington (WA). We already have students at four of these
six schools who are interested in starting UHRC student chapters (as a result of
our presentations this semester) and we really want to focus our energy on
working with those students to establish these chapters, get lots of members,
and organize activities on campus to educate more students and motivate them to
action. We realized that having ONE presentation at MANY schools wasn't
going to be very effective in building an active student movement for the
Uyghurs. We need to focus our energy and have decided instead to BOMBARD a
FEW schools (the six listed above) with Uyghur human rights activities and build
active student movements on those campuses. We expect that after we get
active student movements going at those six schools, there will be a
"domino" effect and students at other schools will hear about it and
also want to start chapters. We just need to focus on a few schools to get
the momentum going. So next semester, we will be organizing activities at
each of these schools at least every other week, including having Uyghur human
rights presentations, tabling information at the university campus centers,
organizing political action nights at the campus cafes, hanging up Uyghur human
rights fact sheets around campus, and holding Uyghur culture events. We
have put two UHRC members in charge of each of the six universities.
/ Kathy
Kathy Polias
Executive Director
Uyghur Human Rights Coalition
P.O. Box 75785
Washington, DC 20013
(202)548-6084
kpolias@uyghurs.org
http://www.uyghurs.org
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