|
Raise Your Voice: Month of Action Activities
2004 Highlights: February 15 - March 20, 2004
Throughout the CSU, students in conjunction with community members, held town hall
meetings, met with legislators, and participated in dialogues in an effort to educate and
inspire their campus and community to act on pressing local, state, and national
issues.
- On Thursday, February 19, the Chico, Fresno, and Monterey Bay campuses joined several
thousand participants in the
New Student Politics National
Teleconference sponsored by the Midwest Collaboration of Campus Compacts. CSU campuses
followed the teleconference with a dialogue exploring student political action and civic
engagement at the local level.
- The Chico Campus & Community Come Together to Dialogue
The Chico community held a town hall meeting to discuss the campus-community divide. A CSU
Chico faculty member led a workshop on social movements, and students and staff from
Chico, Humboldt and UCLA facilitated a workshop on the RYV campaign at the Continuums of
Service Conference in San Diego, CA in March 2004.
- The People Have the Power at Humboldt State University
The People Have the Power was the theme for the 2004 RYV: Student Action for
Change Month planned by Humboldt State University (HSU) Service Learning Center.
Popular democracy was the focus of the month's activities in which participants engaged in
small-group dialogues about pressing local, state and national issues. Before the March 2
election, community members, elected officials, and students met to discuss: Propositions
57 and 58; the Humboldt County District Attorney recall; and the role of local government
in national affairs. With the election over, HSU set out to examine people-centered
movements, such as a workshop that looks at the military's economic draft and resistance
to pressure on high school students to join the armed forces.
- Leading Generations Toward Social Change at CSU Fullerton
During CSU Fullerton's 2004 University Leadership Conference, the Volunteer & Service
Center hosted a workshop entitled, "Leading Generations Toward Social Change." Following a
screening of the documentary film, Unprecedented: The Presidential Election of 2000,
directors Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler led a dialogue focusing on topics such as
changing the political system and mobilizing students to become more socially and
politically active in their school, community, and country.
- Fresno Students Take Time to "Keep it Real"
CSU Fresno students opted to rally around three distinct political issues facing their
campus rather than creating a new initiative. One such issue, an increase in student fees
due to the looming budget crisis in California prompted students to lobby with their
governmental representatives, to keep students informed, and to strategize about next
steps during their weekly "Breakfast Club."
- CSU Monterey Bay honors Cesar Chavez
CSU Monterey Bay Service-Learning Student Leaders collaborated with the Central Coast
Citizenship Project for Cesar Chavez Day (March 31). Student leaders assisted in
citizenship education, hosted an educational forum on Chavez's legacy for local school
youth, and coordinated a supply drive to provide necessary materials to farm worker
families in local farm camps.
- CSUN Dialogue Raises Awareness for Women and Benefits Community
For three days at CSU Northridge, students, faculty, staff and community members packed
into the university's Performance and Arts Center (PAC) to see one of the most acclaimed
performances designed to change social attitudes towards violence against women, a student
adaptation of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. While the show was free to all audience
members, t-shirts were sold for $10 and a $5 donation was asked to benefit three
organizations that provide services to abused women and children: Haven Hills, Inc.,
International Child Abuse Network and V-Day.
Back to RYV main page
|
