Author: Students for Environmental Action


Posted on: December 5th, 2010

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Category: Activism, Context and Connections, News, Students for Environmental Action, The Public Good

Wow. I just got back from SJSF’s Student Conference of the Parties (SCOP) in collaboration with the Pricing Carbon Conference. I was utterly impressed with and inspired by both halves of the event. The Pricing Carbon Conference took place on Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, CT, November 19-21st. The event was co-hosted by Wesleyan’s newly [...]

Author: Morgan


Posted on: November 15th, 2010

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Category: Context and Connections, Democracy, Morgan

On the list of things that I find interesting, alongside vegetarian recipe blogs, the hindi festival holi and baby animals, is the idea of party based politics. This comes to mind when thinking about last week’s election and some of the conversations that I had about the election with some of my less politically minded [...]

If you are interested in food and social justice and you love to meet people doing food justice work then get ready for this Tuesday! There will be a regional student Real Food meet-up at Suffolk University on 73 Tremont st. (park st. T stop) in Boston on November 16th 6pm with plenty of desserts [...]

Author: bencoll


Posted on: November 11th, 2010

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Category: Activism, Context and Connections

I have never been especially active or avid about activism. Here at ‘deis, activism seems to be all around me — which means that it has become increasingly important for me to understand what activism is. I suppose that at its most basic, is is the promotion of a cause you feel strongly about. It [...]

To me, Brandeis is all about people having multiple skills, passions, areas of interest, and being able to pursue all of them no matter how disparate they may seem. Although this is impossible at times, since there is not enough time to do everything you’re interested in, or sometimes you decide it’s better to focus [...]

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