Some thoughts for follow-up

Hey everyone! Thanks very much for all your great comments yesterday in our wrap up session and thanks also to Matt for his comments - we touched upon them in our session as well

Keep in touch everyone xoxo jess

Group 1 : NEXT STEPS
30 mai : liste. Se mettre en contact avec les politiciens que l’on connait. La qualité prime sur la quantité. Envoi à Jessica ?
Conserver la déclaration actuelle.
Chaque pays peut insister sur les sujets qui leur paraissent importants. Traduire les déclarations, se les envoyer.
Partager les activités qui se font dans les différents pays.

Group 2 : STATEMENT REVIEW + NEXT STEPS
Audience = policymakers, national and international level
Strike paragraph 1 – not necessary
Keep paragraph 2 and 3 as is
Add instead pax Christi int’l + partner orgs and allies
Change age of young people to 16
Switch order of next 2 paragraphs make stronger statement this way
Wordsmith – later
Really emphasize theres a meeting in oct. – our statement leading up to = time sensitive!!
Copy and paste email list of parliamentarians for your country – rose can show you if questions
Eric – what our country has done so far, what goals and then concrete actions – VERY specific asks! /goals
-opening paragraph could be modified for each country
-customize statement

Group 3 - STATEMENT REVIEW + NEXT STEPS
statement can be translated into own language
-give specific recommendations for own country
-media training – start with most important info and then move to least
easy to write emails to politicians, attach statement
concrete action – Belgium
peace week in September we are planning diff activities, same week there will be a military summit in ghent (European military summit)
Jessica can go to parl with stijn vb
-also contact local newspapers – la croix (france), using rue 89
-INTEGRAL in front of human development (catholic social teaching)
Statement – 4th paragraph – first thing you mention is financial – it’s an economic crisis
HIV and AIDS