SOCIAL JUSTICE MONTH
Social Justice Month is usually 3 weeks in March focusing on different aspects of justice. It's a time when the Newman Center takes a time out to examine how we affect the world and how we can bring awareness to and aid our brothers and sisters around the globe and in our own neighborhoods. It is a unique opportunity for us to learn from those we serve.
Past Causes for weeks that students have chosen were:
- Homelessness Awareness Week: With a ShantyTown and SoupLines in the Nosh
- Hunger Awareness Week: Hunger Banquet
- Capital Punishment Awareness Week
- Fair Trade Awareness Week
- Environment Awareness Week
- Climate Change Warnings
- Prison Ministry
This school year: 2011 social justice causes:
More details for events coming closer to March, check back then!
Week One (2/27-3/5): Environmental Awareness Week
Week Two (3/6-3/12): Hunger Awareness Week
Week Three (3/3-3/19): Homelessness Awareness Week
Week Four (3/20-3/26): Immigration Awareness Week
last school year: 2010 Social Justice Month Calendar:
Week One (March 1-5): Migrant Farm Worker Rights Awareness Week!
Scavenger Hunt, Cash Prizes!
Help carry bushels of fruit and earn some money!
Dr. Benson on Farm Workers
Dr. Benson is an Assistant Professor at Washington University in Sociocultural Anthropology. He will explain how agriculture fits into the globalized world, as well as how the shifting management of markets, labor, and health impacts farm workplace conditions and influences the social, moral, and emotional lives of differently positioned farmers and farmworkers. His field research in Guatemala and the United States should make this an excellent talk.
All In for Farmers!
Play a friendly game of Texas Hold 'Em for a suggested donation of only $10. All money raised will go to local, national, and international poverty-fighting organizations.
Week Two (March 8-12): Hunger Awareness Week
Soup Lines
Purchase a bowl of soup and bread (donated by Chartwells) to help fight hunger. All proceeds donated to local, national, and international hunger-fighting organizations.
Hunger Banquet
Experience the unequal distribution of wealth in the world as you eat as the world eats. The banquet is an educational and thought-provoking experience that is well worth the hour and free food!
Week Three (March 15-19): Homelessness Awareness Week
ShantyTown
Get a box, bring your sleeping bag and sleep outside with us in solidarity with the homeless. The evening's events include: speakers, documentaries, and a candle light vigil.
Volunteer-After-College Service Panel (not affiliated with a week)
Want to travel? Want to make a difference? Come listen to speakers talk about their experiences with local, national, and international service alla round the globe. Get more information on where to go for service needs and ideas, and find out if you are a good candidate for this type of non-profit work.
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