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What: Northeast Student Global AIDS Campaign Conference

When: Nov. 8-10 (Registration starts at 6pm and goes until 7:00 on Friday. The conference will finish by 1:30 on Sunday.)

Where: Williams College (Williamstown, MA)

Why: To learn about the pandemic that has killed 21 million already and infects 40 million currently AND to become a part of the grassroots movement to wipe it out.

Who: Students from all over the Northeast-old time AIDS activists and people who know virtually nothing about the pandemic or activism. (i.e.: no experience necessary!) 

Featuring: Zackie Achmat (director of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa) and Chung To (founder of the Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong)

How: Register to come to the conference online at www.fightglobalaids.org or contact Healy at 03hft@williams.edu or 413-597-2624 for more information

Registration for the conference is $20 per person and includes all meals, speakers, and materials at the conference. (It's being substantially subsidized by Williams College and area businesses.) We recommend trying to get your school to pay your way, but we won't turn anyone away if money is a problem. Just let us know.

Housing will be provided at Williams for all conference participants. 

Parking is free and easily accessible.
 

Preliminary Agenda

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8TH

4:30 Mitch Besser's talk on Mother to Child Transmission (optional)

6:00-7:00 Registration 

7:00-7:15 Welcome by Williams SGAC and Williams College Dean Roseman 

7:15-7:35 Introduction to SGAC 

7:35-8:15 Overview of AIDS Pandemic 

8:15-8:45 Adam Taylor, director of Global Justice, co-founder of SGAC

8:45 Hosts come

9:15 Movie (Optional)
 
 

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9TH 

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:45 Chemistry of AIDS overview- Professor Lovett

9:45-11:00 AIDS Issues Presentations 

11:00-12:00 Small Group Discussions

12:00-12:30 Lunch

12:30-1:30 Chung To, founder of Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong 

1:30-2:15 Toyi Toyi Protest Dance, Poster Making, and Snacks

2:15-3:15 SGAC Platform and Campaigns

3:15-4:00 Lobbying training

4:00-4:30 Letter writing training

4:45-5:15 Chapter Development Discussions and Meetings

5:15-6:00 Safe Sex talk with Donna Denelli-Hess, Health Services, or video or free time (choose which one you want)
6:00-6:45 Dinner at the JRC

7:00-8:00 Zackie Achmat, founder of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa.

8:15-9:00 Vigil at Chrysalis, an end-stage AIDS home in Williamstown 

9:00-on Free time. Parties. Whatever's on campus.
 
 

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10TH 

9:00-9:30 Breakfast

9:30-10:00 Nat'l coordinating committee teams presentations

10:00-10:30 Nat'l coordinating committee team meetings 

10:30-11:00 Sidewalk chalking

11:00-11:45 Training to do one-on-ones

12:00-1:00 Final Speaker

1:00 Lunch, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and good-bye