Register as a SEAC Chapter!
Think of how much better a place this world would be if young people ran the show. In SEAC, that reality is played out on campuses and in communities on a daily basis through everything from teach-ins to petition drives to regional conferences and benefit concerts. No matter how small the work of your local group may seem, the impact of your grassroots activism knows no boundaries within the SEAC network.
Groups that choose to affiliate with SEAC will sign on to our Anti-Oppression and Non-violence policies as well as receive resources on our national campaigns, including the Campus Climate Challenge. We welcome any group that is fighting the power structures that threaten our environment.
You can find out more about the benefits and responsibilities of SEAC chapters here and register your chapter here.
Headwaters Summer Training Camp
Take time this summer to increase your skills and sharpen your tools to be a more effective organizer on your campus! SEAC is having a week-long training camp and we'd love for you to be part of it! Join us for Headwaters this July 26 - August 1st at the Epworth Retreat Center in High Falls, NY.
As this generation continues to build our power, strengthening SEACs grassroots and national networks will be integral to a sustainable movement. Headwaters will empower you with the tools to organize your fellow youth for social and environmental justice!
Workshops include, but are not limited to:
- Uprooting environmental racism and injustice
- Campaign planning
- Power mapping
- Nonviolent direct action in social movements
- Anti-oppression and collective liberation
- Fundraising (grassroots and grant writing)
- Local food systems
- Media, including web 2.0 organizing
- Permaculture & sustainable design
- Leadership development.
Part of the week will be open for SEACers to self-organize workshops, projects, screen printing, stamp making, writing or zines. We love popular education and know that the best teachers are often our peers! Additionally, we'll be doing a sustainability service project at the Epworth Center to leave it better than we found it.
Camping out is not required, but is encouraged. We'll cook our own meals in the kitchens provided. SEAC is a participatory organization and those who take part in Headwaters can pitch in to help create an exciting week of learning, sharing and fun!
If you are a SEACer (or even if you aren't!) and you are interested in helping to plan Headwaters or to register, please fill out the form below, by clicking the link. Or you can send your contact information to alayne@seac.org
Two New Pamphlets from SEAC and RAN!
SEAC Election Guide: We're excited to inform all our members of two great new pamphlets by SEAC and RAN. The first pamphlet, edited by SEAC National Council Member Dave Shukla and designed by Slim Lopez is called "Now and After: SEAC's Guide to Student Organizing Around the 2008 Elections". The guide explores why engaging with the 2008 elections and our current political moment is so vital to the success of building movements into the next year. Essays over topics ranging from analyzing our political moment, to advocating that we organize heavily to prepare for the first hundred days of the next presidential administration and congress, to why the climate movement needs to win economic democracy in order to achieve justice and equity.
RAN NVDA Pamphlet: Secondly, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has produced an amazing pamphlet on Nonviolent Direct Action called "Get Some Action: Taking Our Place in the History of U.S. Social Movements", written by Joshua Kahn Russell, a RAN staff member and SEAC National Council Member. Like Dave and Slim's pamphlet, it stresses the importance of the climate crisis and taking bold action at this point in history in order to advert catastrophe. Drawing from the rich history of movements for social justice and their strategic application of NVDA, it outlines the basics of this method, its history, and why its a vital tactic in winning the fight against climate change, dirty energy corporations, and environmental injustice. Josh can be reached at josh(at)ran.org
