Tomorrow is a major day in the calendar, marking as it does this year’s:

Stand Up & Take Action Against Poverty Campaign!

On Friday 17th October at 1.10pm outside the Union, there will be a rally of students to voice our support for the Millennium Development Goals and our demands to tackle poverty and inequality. After hearing from guest speakers Paul Younger (Pro-Vice Chancellor) and Pete Mercer (Student’s Union), we will walk to Monument en masse.

It would be wonderful to see fellow Stop AIDS members there, particularly as one of the Millenium Development Goals pertains directly to HIV/AIDS. Make sure you wear something white!

Other events include a Civic Prayer Breakfast at 7.30am and a public lecture at 6.00pm in the Curtis Auditorium with Paul Vallely, the Associate Editor of The Independent and co-author of Tony Blair’s ‘Africa Commission’ report.

For details of these events, go to: http://www.mph-northeast.org.uk/.

For details of the worldwide campaign, see: http://www.standagainstpoverty.org.

Very best wishes,
Tony Baxter

Firstly, a huge welcome to all our new freshers! We hope that you enjoy being part of Stop AIDS… we’ve got a pretty eventful year lined up ahead!

1. Introduction Night/Social

   We are holding an Introductory Night on Monday 6th October at 6pm in the Union. You can find out about our Schools Project, an exciting project in Uganda, and many more ways to get involved with the society… afterwards we plan to head to Trent House for a few drinks.

2. Registration for Newcastle Stop AIDS

   PLEASE join Newcastle Stop AIDS through the Union Society website and follow the links through Activities and AU, Clubs and Societies Registration, and Log In. The smallest registration fee that the Union Society allows us to charge is £5, which is used for lots of things including:

   • Publicity, posters etc.
   • Campaigning
   • Prizes
   • Supporting charities
   • Events, with FREE food and drinks
   • FREE film nights

   For every member that registers and pays £5 by October 13th, the Union gives us another £7… so please sign up a.s.a.p.!

3. Speaker Night

   On Tuesday 14th October the 2008 Unite to Fight Speaker Tour is coming to Newcastle’s Hyena Comedy Club, bringing together young AIDS activists from Zambia, Ireland, Uganda and the USA. The speakers will share their powerful personal experiences of HIV and their roles in the fight to achieve universal access by 2010. This will be an incredible chance to get more informed, more involved and more inspired to Unite to Fight HIV. For more information see the Speaker Tour 2008 website.

That’s all for now! Hope to see as many of you as possible on Monday — old faces as well as new!

Harriet Quigley
Newcastle Stop AIDS President 08/09

It’s all kicking off at 7:30pm at the Hyena Café which is just off Percy Street. Click for a map.

It’s free to attend so bring your mates along too hear humbling stories from some truly inspirational people. More information about the tour and the speakers themselves can be found on the Stop AIDS Societies website.

Hopefully we’ll all see you tomorrow night!

Hi Guys

Not doing anything on that lazy Wednesday afternoon? Then come along to this!

It will only take up an hour of your life and it really will make a difference! Imagine if the whole university turned up one day wearing the same colour. Imagine if, just by wearing that one colour, every single student was making a difference.

This is reality…

WEAR WHITE THIS WEDNESDAY

Live 8 is over, the G8 long forgotten, white wrist bands are no longer cool… but poverty still lives on. This Wednesday (17th October) we as a university are going to stand up and speak out against poverty and inequality.

1pm outside the Student Union

Help us break the world record by turning up to this globally supported event. At 1pm come and show your support for the Millennium Development Goals outside the Union (there will also be a speech by Dr. David Golding). Then join us in walking down to the Quayside where we will form a white band across the Millennium Bridge in our effort to Make Poverty History. We know that you care. This is your chance to show it.

Facebook this event.

T-shirts:

• £3 plus free entry to Oxjam at WHQ
• Outside the Union on Tuesday

After events:

• BBQ outside Union
• Black Gold at Northumbria
• Insights lecture: Slavery in Nigeria (5:30pm Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building)
• Oxjam at WHQ

Goal 6 is directly related to Stop AIDS in that it aims to:

• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS;
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases;

by the year 2015.

Go to the UN website for more information.

See you there x

During the meeting we will discuss:

• How you can get involved
• Your creative ideas and what you want to get out of the society!
• Unite to Fight Aids Speaker Tour!
• Ideas for future campaigns, fundraising and projects
• Ideas for World Aids Day (1st December)

After the meeting we will be heading off to the Union Bar for a social, it will be great fun!

Looking forward to seeing you guys,
The Committee xXx

Stop AIDS Induction Night is Tuesday 2nd October 7.30pm in the Union Lounge (3rd floor of Union). Come along to find out what we’re about and how you can get involved. Free food and drink provided, so bring your mates too!

Looking forward to meeting everyone,

Alison