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Track 4 - Student-Led Campaigns
Workshop 1: Do NO Harm! Fighting the Injustice of Waste from Medicine
Facilitators:
Le Tim Ly, former member, Students for Environmental Justice at Stanford
Janelle Ishida, former Co-Coordinator, Students for Environmental Justice at Stanford
In low-income communities of color, we often find the worst polluters, the deadliest substances being released into our environment and the most inadequate regulation. This is part of the picture of environmental racism. Between 1998 and 2000, students with Students for Environmental Justice at Stanford (SEAS) supported a grassroots campaign to shut down a medical waste incinerator in community Oakland, a facility with a history of permit violations and toxic emissions. Students organized a successful campaign on their campus to force the Stanford Hospital and Medical Center to stop sending its waste to the incinerator in Oakland and find alternative disposal methods. Since then the incinerator has been shut down completely from community pressure. Come learn about the strategy, tactics and lessons learned from the student solidarity component of this campaign.
Workshop 2: Students Affecting Change For North Korea
Facilitator: Adrian Hong, LiNK Executive Director
North Korea is without a doubt one of the most urgent and mysterious issues of the day. How have students gotten involved with this issue? Is anything students do worth the effort? Can students bring about real change in greater, national or even international movements? A look at the history, structure, activities and future of LiNK, Liberation in North Korea, a student-led organization started at a student conference (KASCON) only March of last year, now 70 chapters strong. Workshop will also include strengths and weaknesses of a student organization like LiNK, and how LiNK's model can be applied to other causes.
Workshop 3: How I Worked with Senator Akaka to Make Change
Facilitator: James Kawika Riley, University of Northern Colorado student
This workshop will discuss the student campaigning through the example of James Riley's work with Senator Akaka to reclassify Pacific Islanders as underrepresented minorities. The personal story will be enriched by supplemental materials on student campaigns and the public policy process that connect with the facilitator's personal experience in this matter.
Workshop 4: The APIA Vote: What Now?
Facilitators:
Tanzila Ahmed, South Asian American Voting Youth
Stephanie Chang, NAASCon Advocacy Co-Chair
Go Kasai, APIA Vote
Levin Sy, Every Vote Counts
APA college/university student leaders all across the country made great efforts to register, educate, and turn out the APA student vote in 2004. Now that the election's over -what steps should we take to keep the new federal administration accountable? How do we do this? What will be the hot issues this year to address? This session will be highly interactive and inspire further thinking about how we can continue to create voice for our community -post-election!
Workshop 5: Why Are We Fasting for the DREAM Act?
Facilitator: Jane Chung, NAKASEC Program Associate
Organization: National Korean American Services & Education Consortium
There are two legislations currently pending in Congress that would give undocumented immigrant students a chance to pursue higher education and obtain legal status. For over two years, students from across the nation have been involved in numerous grassroots actions to advocate for the DREAM Act and the Student Adjustment Act. However, with continuous inaction around the student legalization legislations and increasing anti-immigrant measures stemming out of Congress, there was a growing need to stress the urgency and the need for accountability around these legislations. NAKASEC spearheaded a fasting action, and together with other immigrant communities the DREAM Fast Vigil Campaign was born where students were involved in the most dramatic grassroots action to date. NAKASEC and its affiliates the Korean Resource Center in Los Angeles, the Korean American Resource & Cultural Center in Chicago, and YKASEC-Empowering the Korean American Community in New York continued to lead efforts to bring the Korean American voice in the debate around legalization of undocumented immigrants
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