Let me start out with a little bit about myself. I am a student at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I recently graduated this May with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications: Public Relations and Spanish. I love college so much that I am staying for my Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership with an emphasis on university student affairs. I was a 2007 YP4 Fellow and will start an internship this summer with YP4. I LOVE activism and will fight for the rest of my life to put an end to all forms of oppression, discrimination and all the other nasty crap that puts people down!

Last Wednesday I was approached by a friend and fellow WSAC member about how to set up a new Web site for the project that she is working on. Since neither of us had any idea how long it would take for Technology Services to set up a folder on the school’s server, and the site needed to be up and running within a week, I just bought a domain name and set the site up on an independent server.

This is cool: an anti-war group called Direct Action to Stop the War has been using the microblogging tool Twitter to help coordinate their protest efforts.

I'd like to preface everything by declaring that I am ridiculously inconsistent when it comes to journaling. My schedule is erratic at best and nonexistent at worst. Also, when I haven't written in a while I tend to ramble, but I promise there's a point buried somewhere. So, in the case that this "blog" isn't touched for several weeks after this entry, it doesn't mean that I'm not doing anything. Far from it, I find myself more regularly (ha!) active than ever before.

Last week, Laura Sahramaa wrote a blog about the connections between documentary media and social change as witnessed through the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Sicko. As a huge documentary fanatic (especially those aimed at creating social change) & aspiring documentarian, I wanted to highlight a couple of examples of simple, online videos made by the YouTube generation that are aimed at social change, if only to prove the point that you don't have to have a major movie studio or a distribution plan to pick up a video camera and start making some waves in your community.

Angela Davis Stresses Activism at Howard

By Brittany Hutson and staff reports
Black College Wire

REPRINT--

Jan2008--She received a standing ovation before she even touched the podium. Her
smile graced the audience as she thanked everyone for their gracious
welcome. A filled-to-capacity audience at Cramton auditorium eagerly
anticipated activist and feminist Angela Davis, who shared her views on
racism, the prison system and activism in the 21st century.

(I originally posted this on facebook but I decided to repost on here.) 

Citizen's Direct Action Camp 

GlobalWarmingSolution.org

Cross-posted on Alex on Politics and DailyKos.

This is a really striking letter to mom that a pair of brothers wrote just yesterday. One of them was kind enough to share it with me.