The Institute has three main components:

Education and Issue Based Workshops - To build an effective coalition we must be committed to learning from one another how our struggles are interrelated.

Skills Trainings - Where we will learn and teach the basic elements and strategic planning skills necessary to build a mass-based, diverse, multi-issue movement for social change.

Movement Building - We cannot become good agents of social change until we have learned to deal with issues of oppression within our own groups. We will also strengthen our network of youth activists, and build a sense of community amongst ourselves.

 

Times are changing and with George W. Bush as president and a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas in the works, it doesn't look like it's for the better. The income gap is growing. Corporations are merging and the rich are getting richer. Rainforests are shrinking, the sea level is rising, and more and more people are in prison, starving, displaced, and oppressed. Things look bleak.

But it is not too late. Everyday people are fighting back, storming corporate offices, staging tree-sits, dropping banners, monkeywrenching, demonstrating, and organizing. A resistance is growing. We must struggle for a sustainable future for ourselves, our communities and our natural environment. Come to the Summer Training Institute where we will be learning, building, and organizing.

 

Our Time Is NOW!

 

Southeastern Michigan is an amazing hub of environmental justice activism.

 

Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (ACCESS)

Detroit Summer

Massasauga Earth First!

MI Environmental Justice Coalition

The Sweetwater Alliance

The Ecology Center

The Green House

 

 

Student Environmental Action Coalition • PO Box 31909 • Philadelphia, PA 19104 •  0609

Phone (215)222.4711

 

Friday July 25 – Monday July 28

 

1st Unitarian-Universalist Church

4605 Cass Avenue

Detroit, Michigan 48201

 

www.1stuu.org

313.833.9107

 

Located on the southwest corner of Cass and Forest

 

Registration $50.00 for all 4 days.

Per day registration $15.

 

SEAC’s 2003 Summer Training Institute is open to all students with concerns about social justice in our society.  The focus this year will be on

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE!!

 

Come join us and share your skills.

Come join us to learn.

This year the presenters will include:

 

·        Grace Lee Boggs

 

·        Triangle Foundation

 

·        Guild Law Center

 

·        Sweetwater Alliance

 

·        Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

 

·        Cleveland Green Building Coalition

 

·        Sierra Club

 

·        Coalition for Black Trade Unionists CARAT Teams

 

·        Rainforest Action Network

 

Workshop Topics:

 

Media

Anti-oppression

Clean Energy

Legal Rights as Activists

Coalition Building

GMOs

Movement Building Forums

 

 

Partially Funded by: Urban Visionaries

SEAC’s Mission

 

So what is SEAC you ask...

 

pronounced "seek," is a student and youth run national network of progressive organizations and individuals whose aim is to uproot environmental injustices through action and education. We define the environment to include the physical, economic, political and cultural conditions in which we live. By challenging the power structure which threatens these environmental conditions, SEAC works to create progressive social change on both the local and global levels.

 

So who started SEAC

 

The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) was founded in 1988 by a group of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who placed an ad in Greenpeace Magazine calling for a national student environmental movement.  Since then, SEAC has grown to include hundreds of high school and college groups all over the country!

 

SEAC is one of the largest youth-run and led organizations in the US.  Through local grassroots organizing, conferences, national campaigns, and most importantly, individuals working for a just society, SEAC has been and will continue to be a powerful force in the quest for environmental and social justice.  This is your movement!

 

This is a tremendous opportunity

to find your own potential and power!

We need you!

 

Student Environmental Action Coalition • PO Box 31909 • Philadelphia, PA 19104 •  0609

Phone (215)222.4711