Organizing at Brandeis University
Last Student Union e-mail we will directly copy and paste for a while, hopefully. The Student Union just keeps telling us about such good opportunities that I feel bad not re-promoting them in the name of social justice, though… The deadlines to apply for: DEIS IMPACT is Nov. 4th Stanley Family Night is Nov. … Continue reading “Social Justice Opportunities on Campus…Deadlines Approaching”
So, in the spirit of my series on games which encourage social justice, I decided to share another game I just discovered: it’s called You Shall Know the Truth. Released way back in February, You Shall Know the Truth is the third game in the Wikileaks Stories series, the first two being Leaky World and … Continue reading “WikiLeaks Online Game”
There’s an environmental social justice game called TransportationTown that I just discovered. In the game, you must balance the city’s pollution, mobility and happiness in order to insure that there is a balance between economic growth and damage to the environment. It’s fun and simple. While you play, facts about Whatcom County’s multimodal transportation system … Continue reading “Transportationtown! The game”
Spent! This is a social justice online computer game. What a brilliant way to spread awareness of the struggle unemployed people must combat, and the aspects of our society that foster inequality. In this game you must live on a budget of $1,000 plus wages over the course of a month. At the end it … Continue reading “Spent! The game.”
I’m thinking a lot about the role of the University in society lately, and long-term Social Justice infrastructure, etc. Brandeis talks a good game about Social Justice, but really neither defines it well or empowers its students to foster it. Even the committed activist clubs on campus are stuck in a paradigm of community service, … Continue reading “Social Justice should be more than an empty phrase”
A new game called Co-opoly is in the works. This board game resembles monopoly in its bare-bones objective: to succeed in business. However, rather than players competing to earn the most money, players must work together to win the game. “Everyone wins – or everybody loses,” the game advertises. Unlike Monopoly, which encourages an ultra-competitive … Continue reading “A More Cooperative ‘Monopoly’”
The World Food Programme has a new quiz on the famine ravaging Ethiopia. Just by taking it, you are helping to end it. How is that? For every person who takes the quiz, or shares it with their friends on facbeook or twitter, a meal will be donated to one child in Ethiopia. From WFP: "WFP … Continue reading “Take a Quiz, Feed a Child”
Today is National Food Day, and SEA, the Student Union and Dining Services have partnered to present events to call attention to our nutrition, the effect our eating has on our environment, and more social justice/awareness. It sounds like they are also planning on making it fun. And free. I went to a Chipotle Cultivate … Continue reading “National Food Day”
Interested in some light weekend reading? I wrote you (and Professor Cunningham 😛 ) a longish profile of Guy Rossman, campus radical. You can download it as a pdf if you’d like as well ? “Capitalism, blast it with piss.” Guy Rossman, the resident campus long-haired radical, balances on a chair in his suite, chomping … Continue reading “Portrait of a Jesus-faced Revolutionary”
As a lead up to our reLaunch on November 2-3, Innermost Parts is posting a series of critical, long-form thoughtful pieces on where we are, what we’re trying to achieve, that sort of thing. I hope you enjoy. What is Innermost Parts? A critical examination in advance of our 2nd birthday: I founded Innermost Parts … Continue reading “What is Innermost Parts?”
In the first day of my 8th grade social studies class, our teacher, Mr. Durkee, put up a poster of Michael Jordan in the act of making a slam dunk. We couldn’t tell whether Mr. Jordan was going up or falling down, Mr. Durkee told us, just by looking at the picture. We had to … Continue reading “Looking back six years ago (part 1)”
Something is rotten in the campus of Brandeis. Those guiding the course of this University have abandoned the core values that made our namesake great, and here we are, drifting rudderless into the sea of the future. Louis Brandeis was a champion of the people against the powerful, a guardian of civil rights, an advocate … Continue reading “Why we fight”