USAS held its first meeting of the semester tonight. A main 
topic of discussion focussed around plans for the semester. As 
mentioned last semester, our goals are to educate people and have 
direct actions.  We decided that due to time constraint, we should 
focus on the Coca-Cola boycott, but at the same time educate 
ourselves and others on other sweatshop issues.  
    With the Coca-Cola issue, we plan on fine tuning an existing 
Powerpoint presentation and then make presentations to classes on 
campus.  We also discussed making anti-Coca-Cola fliers/posters to 
put up in classes.  How to tackle the ISU vending contract that is 
currently in negotations, was also discussed.
    Regaring education, we discussed finding speakers within our 
budget.  Ideas of holding a Global Review with a sweatshop related 
speaker was brought up, along with showing videos every now and then 
such as "The Hidden Face of Globalization".  We plan to have fliers 
about USAS meetings created and hopefully posted by the February 4th 
meeting.

Upcoming events to keep in mind:

- January 28: Meeting with Nancy Steffan from the WRC,at 7pm at 
              the Coffeehouse.

- February 1: Meeting of local progressive groups to discuss what 
              each other is doing and brainstorm (2pm at Coffeehouse).

- March 31&April 1: Conference on The Jungle (7PM on the 31st in Bone 
                    Student Center; all day on the 1st, location TBA).