Week of Action Events in North Carolina

Guilford College:
2/17 - Homelessness Simulation and discussion. - Panel on student engagement

2/19 - open mike in the Underground. poetry, music and reflection
- Workshop: Advocacy 101 (tools for exercising citizenship)
- Workshop: Linking with your community

2/20 - Judicial process - a panel of community members from a state trooper to an assistant DA discuss the challenges of the judicial process. Also, a report from our Mcleanville prison literacy group
- Movie - Bullworth - Milner lounge

2/21- Knowledge swap - The Underground
- Reflections Mural

Raise your Voice Week was sponsored by Project Community (Guilford College's student run community service office)

University of North Carolina, Greensboro:
As a part of Raise Your Voices Week, students and staff from UNCG Housing and Residence Life and Spartan STARS (Students Taking A Responsible Step) brought attention to world hunger. Student painted pottery bowls in the student center. A local pottery place fired the bowls for free and Aramark donated soup for the bowls. Students then sold the bowls plus the soup for a minimim donation of $2. Each person who pruchased a bowl received a card which stated: When you finish this soup, keep the empty bowl as a reminder of those in the world who have empty bowls. The project raised $350 for Urban Ministries, a local food pantry in Greensboro.

North Carolina Central University:
These following activities will certainly help NCCU launch the campaign on its campus. I am asking that each chairperson assign a faculty member with the class that best meets this topic. The faculty member will need to facilitate the discussion and bring closure by providing his or her students with information that allows avenues for getting involved beyond the discussion. On Friday, February 21, 2003, these faculty members and the department chairmen, are invited to a luncheon in the Criminal Justice Conference room to summarize the week’s activities focusing on social change in relation to theological issues.

February 17, 2003
Department of History Dr. Freddie Parker.
Discussion Topic:

1. What is your opinion about how colonialism and the Cold War established the present status of International Affairs regarding the following countries? Liberia, Iraqi¸ Indonesia

February 18, 2003
Department of Political Science Dr. Jarvis Hall.
Discussion Topics:

1. What is your opinion about voting rights ending for African America?
2. What is your opinion about the government serving the interests of corporations versus those of citizens?

February 19, 2003
Department of Criminal Justice Dr. George Wilson.
Discussion Topics:

1. What is your opinion about the death penalty? Website: npr.org¸ George Ryan- Illinois¸ Governor Easley- North Carolina
2. What is your opinion about Roe versus Wade?

February 20, 2003
Department of Sociology/Social Work Dr. James Davie/Dr. Isaac Robinson.
Discussion Topics:

1. What is your opinion about single parent children who are more likely to be emotionally unstable and/or drug dependent? (Morning Herald Jan 24.2003)
2. What is your opinion about children who are affected by violence in the home?

Domestic Violence Resources –Jessamyn Resssler-Maerlender, Dr. Carolyn Halpern, Dr. Sandra Martin
Dr. Beth Moracco, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, www.vaw.umn.edu/library.asp#A4

February 21, 2003
Campus Ministry Mr. James Corbett.
Discussion Topics:

1. What are Social and Theological Issues in relation to civic engagement?