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Indigenous Call for Action Answered by Youth/Environmental Groups -- act now!
Submitted by aramie on Wed, 2008-07-02 20:24. Other CampaignsIndigenous Call for Action Answered by Youth/Environmental Groups
Black Mesa Project permitting process re-opened! Deadline for comments: July 7, 2008
Diné elder Pauline Whitesinger faces threats from government officials
Black Mesa, Arizona, home to the Diné (Navajo) and Hopi tribal reservations, is also home to massive mining operations run by Peabody Coal. In the past 30 years the mine at Black Mesa has contributed 325 million tons of carbon dioxide to atmospheric levels. Mining officials, with backing from the U.S. government, are responsible for capping local water supply (to supply mines) and harassing, threatening and in some cases assaulting Black Mesa residents, many who are elders resisting being driven from the land their ancestors have occupied for hundreds of years.
SEAC supports the Student / Farmworker Alliance!
Submitted by veneg1cr on Mon, 2008-03-31 18:42. Additional Involvement | Other CampaignsThe CIW is launching a national petition drive to demand that Burger King and other food industry leaders work with the CIW to improve the wages and working conditions of the workers who pick their tomatoes, and join with the CIW in an industry-wide effort to eliminate modern-day slavery and human rights abuses from Florida’s fields. The petitions will serve as notice that those who sign are “prepared to stop patronizing Burger King now, and other food industry leaders in the future, should they fail to do so.” The campaign comes on the 200th anniversary of the US ban against the importation of slaves, and echoes key strategies of the early abolitionist movement that helped hasten the end of slavery in the 19th century.
West Virginia Energy Gathering
Submitted by Dana on Wed, 2007-09-19 12:26. Issue and Organizing Materials | Activist Training Camp | Regional | Other CampaignsCome to POWER-VEG!
The West Virginia Energy Gathering will be held on September 28th, 29th and 30th at Glenville State College. Come for a weekend of sharing, learning, and strategizing around energy issues with other students and youth from across the state! Build solidarity among youth and community groups working to make energy in West Virginia both sustainable and just! Power-Veg can become the foundation for a youth environmental justice coalition in West Virginia!
This is not intended to be a summit of workshop after lecture after workshop. Instead it will be first and foremost a strategy session, a space for us to hash out just how we intend to make change on our campuses, in our communities, in our state, and in our world. Come share your vision and create a better future!
Protest at the WV Coal Bowl
Submitted by Bobby Mitchell on Mon, 2007-09-10 21:48. Other CampaignsTemperature rising at the Friends Of Coal Bowl
On Saturday morning a group of students and youth demonstrated against the Friends of Coal sponsored Marshall and WVU back yard brawl, meeting and educating folks on the real picture about dirty industry working its way into the universities and major media outlets on a closed bid to the naming of the game series.
Ivan met up with Gov. Manchin and told him the views of the students and the discontent of the game's coal labeling.Bill Raney(pres. of the WV coal association) rode in a slow moving Marshall caped golf cart right past us and we just approached him with our message, "Coal Keeps WV Poor" and "Stop MTR", he had no response but a glare and a smirk.
The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition
Other CampaignsSEAC is a member organization ot the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC), which aims to organize and mobilize the youth and student response to Bush's open-ended, so-called "war on terror." This broad-based youth and student led coalition was formed shortly after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and has worked to build strategic, long-term opposition of youth and students to the war, both at home and abroad. We believe that young people have an important role to play in taking back our democracy-on our campuses, out in the streets, and at the ballot box. NYSPC believes that the struggle for social and economic justice is key to the struggle for peace and we are committed to engaging and including youth of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth, working class and other marginalized youth. For more information, see www.nyspc.net
