Events Supported by Center for Community Service and Justice

October 2006

The 19th Annual Student Conference on Hunger & Homelessness (Oct 27-29, 2006 at Los Angeles )

Join 450 students from across the country that are committed to ending hunger, homelessness, and poverty in America and abroad, for the largest gathering of college students working on these issues. Throughout the weekend, students will learn from some of the top activists, organizers, and advocates in the country.

• Be inspired by Keynote Speaker, Dolores Huerta, a long-time activist and organizer advocating on behalf of workers' rights. In 1962, Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez, which later became the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and lead the great grape boycott.
• Choose from more than 50 skills trainings and program workshops on innovative campus programming, ways to strengthen your organizing and leadership skills, and informative discussion on poverty-related topics.
• Meet experts and professionals from 40+ organizations. Learn about summer internships, career opportunities, and travel abroad programs.
• Are You Planning an Oxfam Hunger Banquet for Your Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week? Check out the Hunger Banquet at the conference for ideas - learn from Oxfam staff.
• Meet Student Leaders from Across the U.S. More than 90 schools will be present from Maine to Florida to Washington.

For more information about this event please click the banner above or you may contact Margarita Dubocq at ext.5352

SHARE - Celebrating 25th Anniversary (Sep.30 - Oct 2, 2006 at DC)

SHARE is an organization that supports the empowerment of historically impoverished and marginalized communities in El Salvador, as they are changing the structures that keep people poor through an integrated effort that is reactivating sustainable local economies, creating viable rural policies that aid subsistence farmers, and financing projects that provide for the empowerment of women, development of leadership and community organizing. SHARE also has a dynamic Sister Parish and community program where a relationship of accompaniment is created with communities in the US and El Salvador.

The organization is celebrating it's 25th anniversary  this year, and there are activities in conjunction with this celebration is held in a few different location through out the State, including Washington DC from Sep.30 to Oct.2, 2006. Please click here to learn more about it and register for the event.

Please contact Andy Goicochea at ext 5823 for more information about this event.

March 2006

 Green Food and Band

Southwest Baltimore Quilts is an enrichment program of the Sisters Academy of Baltimore, a tuition-free middle school for girls. This enrichment program is open to fourth grade girls living in Southwest Baltimore neighborhoods including Poppleton, Franklin Square, Hollins Market, Union Square, Barre Circle, new Southwest/Mount Clare and Washington Village. The participating girls will be taught language arts activities, such as poetry writing, that connect the quilting project with theme of the year. The enrichment program also includes academic works, such as math-based components.

September 2005

Eyes Wide Open, is American Friends Service Committee’s widely-acclaimed exhibition of the human cost of the Iraq War, features a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty, a field of shoes and a Wall of Remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict, and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war.

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