AZ SUMMER OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Social justice organizers in Arizona are organizing a Summer of Human Rights, and inviting young people around the nation to take part in creating a new Arizona. From Alto Arizona’s website:

We need organizers, artists, lawyers, communicators, trainers along with many other skills to help build the resistance this summer and beyond. This effort will run throughout the summer, kicking off on July 1st.

Alto Arizona seeks to build a program similar to Freedom Summer, a program that was instrumental in advancing the Civil Rights struggle in the 1960s.

From the Freedom Summer wiki:

It helped break down the decades of isolation and repression that were the foundation of the Jim Crow system. Before Freedom Summer, the national news media had paid little attention to the persecution of black voters in the Deep South and the dangers endured by black civil rights workers, but when the lives of affluent northern white students were threatened the full attention of the media spotlight was turned on the state. This evident disparity between the value that the media placed on the lives of whites and blacks embittered many black activists.[3] Perhaps the most significant effect of Freedom Summer was on the volunteers themselves, almost all of whom — black and white — still consider it one of the defining moments of their lives.[11]

If you have the time and drive please go to Arizona and take part, this is sure to be something that will live with you forever. Sign up here:
Alto Arizona Summer of Human Rights

Get involved in the External Affairs Office this Fall!

The EAVP office will be a hotbed of political and social justice organizing on campus next year! Many people have expressed interest in joining the office. In order to keep track of people who are interested in getting involved, I created two nifty applications: one for staff and one for interns! Applications for staff positions were due May 25th, but if you are specifically interested in being appointed to a commission to oversee university deals with corporations or in being on the Cal Housing Commission, or you just really want to be a staff member and willing to volunteer a lot of time, you can still turn one in.

Internship Application
Staff Application

For people interested in interning, your applications aren’t due until September so don’t even worry about it.

Staff and internship positions are not the only ways of getting involved, advisorships and skill shares (if you have valuable knowledge) are also welcome, so please specify on the form how you would like to get involved.

I will be contacting everyone who applies by the Fall either for interviews for staff positions, or to talk about other ways that you can help out.

Staff positions I’m looking for (there are more, but this is priority):
-A Person to Oversee Direct Action
-A Person to Oversee Direct Advocacy
-A Cal Lobby Corps Director
-A Cal Housing Director
-University corporation partnership oversight committee member
-If you are passionate about a certain issue area, I may create a position for you