True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
UR-SDS Campaigns
STUDENT POWER MOVEMENT
Student Power for Accessible Education Campaign
National SDS Campaign (for more info, see national campaign page)
PEACE MOVEMENT
University of Rochester Making Peace, Not War Campaign
Mission: To understand and reform how the University of Rochester contributes to the United States' large-scale military occupation of Afghanistan and and Iraq and military assaults on Pakistan and Syria.
Action plan: teach-ins and sit-ins about the wars and U of R support; demand institutionalized change (short-term moratoruim, long-term reform of transparency and funding-structure)
WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
Combatting Domestic Violence Campaign
Action plan: Collaboration w/ Alternatives for Battered Women in Rochester
CONSUMER MOVEMENT
Compasionnate Cosumers Campaign
Mission: Seeks to promote greater awareness of consumerism and corporate influence on consumption.
LABOR MOVEMENT
CONSUMER MOVEMENT
Compasionnate Cosumers Campaign
Mission: Seeks to promote greater awareness of consumerism and corporate influence on consumption.
ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Animal Rights and Knowing Where Your Food Comes From Campaign
Mission: Seeks to promote greater awareness and understanding of where our food comes from and the systematic abuse of animals in the process.
Get to Know Your Community Campaign
Mission: Seeks to promote greater understanding of the Rochester communities in and around the space we live and learn.
Action plan: student-contributed website about the community; actions in the community
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