Students Get Active
Downing, Ryan
ON THE LINE Students Get Active Chapel Hill, North Carolina Some 30,000 students at more than 2,000 high schools and colleges around the nation participate in the Muaent Environmental Action...
...With the new Congress bent on destroying twenty-five years' worth of environmental legislation, SEAC hopes its upcoming conference will serve as a springboard for young people who want to play a progressive role in the 1996 elections...
...This year, SEAC is planning its fourth national conference, Threshold, for October 13-15 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
...fax (919) 9674648...
...Speakers include Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers, Winona LaDuke from Indigenous Women's Network, Greenpeace executive director Barbara Dudley, NAACP executive director Myrlie Evers-Williams, Judi Bari of Earth First!, and Speech from the rap band Arrested Development...
...SEAC practices a decentralized, multi-issue brand of student activism...
...Members in California coordinate a fellowship program that gives inner-city youth the opportunity to work on local environmental, labor, and anti-crime projects...
...SEAC members join a protest in East Liverpool, Ohio...
...Seven years after its founding, SEAC has established itself as a leading voice in student activism...
...telephone (919) 967-4600 or 1-800-700-SEAC...
...Box 1168, Chapel Hill, NC 27514...
...For more information on SEAC and Threshold, contact the SEAC National Office, P.O...
...e-mail seac@igc.apc.org...
...Students should be responsible for the communities they live in and not just campus politics," says conference organizer John Tan...
...While SEAC members in East Liverpool, Ohio, are fighting a local hazardous-waste incinerator, students in Michigan are helping with efforts to shut down the Fermi 2 nuclear plant...
...The conference will focus on the role of young people in the global economy, and will feature leaders from the environmental and social-justice movements, including the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, the National Commission for Democracy in Mexico, the Labor-Community Strategy Center, and the Third World Network, as well as many experienced young activists...
...Ryan Downing...
...It allows us to educate ourselves and each other about different issues and to draw connections between them, whereas if an organization focuses on one issue, it can become isolated," says Jimmerfield about SEAC's loose construction...
...One of our big responsibilities as a university-based organization is to build coalitions with communities and make the university accountable to communities," says SEAC national council coordinator Shane Jim-merfield...
...ON THE LINE Students Get Active Chapel Hill, North Carolina Some 30,000 students at more than 2,000 high schools and colleges around the nation participate in the Muaent Environmental Action Coalition, the nation's largest youth-led environmental group...
...The goal is to prepare young people to transform their ideas into action for justice," said national office representative Miya Yoshitani...
Vol. 59 • September 1995 • No. 9
