Hello,
Thank you to everyone who came to the CSSC 8th Annual Convergence at UCSD! It was a great opportunity to build community and network with people from all over California, sharing the work we have done to make our world cleaner and kinder and helping each other gain the tools we need to do it all better! You can view photos from the weekend-long event on our Facebook fan page. We've also included at the end of this newsletter a wrap-up of the Convergence!
IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:
1. Human Rights Month - 60+ events throughout May!
2. SSC Moves Into the SRC!
3. Student Worker Collective - weekly rounds and upcoming potluck
4. San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) - Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project
5. Sustainable Food Project's Urban Farm
6. Recycling at the Cross for
7. Neighborhood Community Garden
8. The Green Initiatives Fund (TGIF) - Spring Allocations
>>Convergence Wrap-Up by Jared A. Muscat (SSC Food Director/CSSC Convergence Coordinator)
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1. Human Rights Month 60+ events throughout May!
The SSC has compiled many of the events that various campus departments, student groups, and government programs are organizing into a single calendar of social and environmental justice-themed events held throughout the month of May. Some of the events include:
Mon. 10 May: Pilipin@ Awareness Week Kick-Off Nooner (PC Plaza / 12-2pm)
Thurs. 13 May: “The Politics of 21st Century Apartheid” by ANGELA DAVIS (MSA / PC West Ballroom AB 4:00pm)
Mon. 17 May: Future of Iranian Democracy Activism PANEL (Students for Civil Rights in Iran / PC West ERC Rm 7-9:30pm)
Wed. 19 May: INVISIBLE CHILDREN Film Screening (Schools for Schools / 6-8pm – PC West ERC Room)
>>SSC joins AS External Office, African American Studies Minor, Chican@/Latin@ Arts & Humanties Minor, Community Law Project, the Cross-Cultural Center and more in sponsoring Justice in Palestine Week, all of Week 7.
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3.
Student Sustainability Collective Moves Into the Sustainability Resource Center!
WHERE: SRC next to Price Center Theater
WHEN: Monday 17 May 2010
The Sustainability Resource Center opened in November 2009, and the SSC would now like to invite you to our MOVE IN event! We will host an inclusive info session about the SRC and SSC history, with talks from the co-founders, a slideshow of pictures and stories from the sustainability events, projects, and campaigns of the past couple years.
Please join us and the other sustainability organizations of the campus, as we settle into the Sustainability Resource Center, where social, environmental, and economical justice are the talk of the day.
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3.
Student Worker Collective rounds and upcoming unity potluck
As students, our tuition and other fees continue to rise annually. Even with this increase in fees, the workers still experience low wages and terrible conditions as working people. Where does both the money that we as students pay, and the money that the workers deserve go? In response to the workers struggle for better wages and conditions, organizers from Kamalayan Kollective and M.E.C.h.A formed the Student Worker Collective.
>>SWC rounds are every Monday @ 12pm (meet at the Cross Cultural Center) and Wednesdays @ 9am (meet in front of Rubios).
>>SWC Potluck: Wednesday 19 May in the Cross Cultural Center Library from 7-9pm! Join us as we build a united, conscious community of UCSD workers and students.
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4.
SANDAG Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is now accepting comments from the public on route alternatives, the project purpose and need, and issues to be studied in the project’s environmental document.
SANDAG will hold five “open house” meetings during the coming month for the public to learn more about the project and submit comments. Comments received will be taken into account as SANDAG decides which route alternative(s) to carry forward into environmental review.