SEAC serves as a resource to grass-roots student groups all over the country, providing them with information, action alerts on specific campaigns (such as Zero-Cut, Global Warming, and the World Trade Organization). We help them network with other groups in the same region with similar interests so they can work together. SEAC also provides a unified student voice on environmental issues by conducting national campaigns. For instance, in 1990 we held Marches for Environmental Justice simultaneously in 34 state capitals on February 26th, and a Lobby Day for Clean Air on April 2-3 in Washington, DC. Our most recent national campaigns include Free Burma, toxic chlorine bleaching of tampons, and challenging the World Trade Organization. Our other campaigns include:
- Stopping the Mt. Graham telescope project
- Procurement and sustainable purchasing policies
- Corporate Divestment campaigns
- Protecting Northern Forests
- Greening your campus
- Zero–Cut: Stop Logging on National Forests
- Health Care Without Harm (medical waste)
- Defeating Chip Mills
SEAC’s primary mission is to strengthen the grassroots student environmental movement. We do this in many ways:
- We publish Threshold, the movement magazine written by student environmentalists for student environmentalists, with information on student campaigns and SEAC activities and issues.
- Our clearinghouse provides information on organizing, getting press, coalition building and also on specific issues.
- We network student groups with each other in order to share ideas and experience.
- We build local, regional, and national leadership by organizing training sessions (like our annual Summer Training Institute) and hosting
conferences and events.
- We create a unified student voice through our coordinated regional and national campaigns.
- We are developing a field organizing program, in which experienced organizers will visit SEAC groups around the country and teach students to organize more effectively.
- We have an electronic network of regional and national email lists (SEACnet), and a webpage (www.seac.org).
- Our Speakers’ Bureau can educate students about many crtical topics.