Hey everyone,
So there has been interest from many students at RMIT to run a concession card campaign this year across RMIT and other universities. This campaign is directed at the Victorian Government to get them to stop discrimination and allow concession cards for all students, whether International, Post graduate or part time students. The next meeting for this campaign will be held on this Thursday 24th April at 12:30 in the Post Grad Lounge (building 28 level 3).
We had several good ideas and actions come out of the first meeting that was held last Thursday 17th April, including the potential to organise groups from other universities to join a campaign, launching a overseas poster campaign exposing Victoria's discriminatory policies against international students and informing overseas students not to study at universities in Victoria, getting a petition ready for the next meeting and getting students to contact their Members of Parliament (easy to find MP's: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/mlas1.html ). We've also started up a blog site for people to share information and ideas, which will be up and running very soon and have thought up a name for our group and the campaign, it's CC4VIC (concession cards for Victoria).
Tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd April) the representatives from the Student Union are holding a BBQ in Bowen Street to promote the Concession cards campaign. But they are in desperate need of some volunteers to help run the BBQ and also inform students about the Concession Card campaign and get students to sign up for more information.
There is also some good news I have also heard that RMIT's Vice Chancellor and several other Vice Chancellors in Victoria are supporting concession cards for International Students, which is a definite positive for any campaign that we run.
So I hope that we see all of you there at the BBQ tomorrow or at the next meeting on Thursday.
Regards
Ryan
Ryan Mosby
RMIT Student Union
General Representative
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Sorry that I could not attend the meeting! Its not a suitable time for me, but just so you know.. there are heaps of us who support the campaign but we can't squeeze in the meeting in our schedules.. and I'm from Bundoora so thats another big bummer. Keep up the good work!
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