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SWA Releases 2006-2007 Annual Report
The
Student World Assembly announced the release of its 2006-2007
Annual Report. The report highlights the organization’s
grassroots efforts across the globe to combat its yearlong
campaign to eradicate human trafficking.
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Suggested Reading
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Multitude, written by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, discusses the possibility of new kind of global democracy that emerges as a result of globalization. People brought together in a globally networked community form a multitude, with the power to forge a democratic alternative to the present world order.
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Eco-Festival
2007
Location: Kingsborough
Community College, New York
Date: April
17, 2007
 On
April 17, 2007 Kingsborough Community College and
SWA held an Eco-Festival to provide students, teachers
and concerned citizens with a forum to explore the
issues of poverty, health and sustainable development
in a global context. The symposium was designed to
educate, motivate, and inspire meaningful action.
Eco-Festival was constituted by students and faculty
from many disciplines, community leaders, and environmental
activists, artists and writers. It featured keynote
speakers such as Andy
Revkin of the New
York Times, a faculty symposium, a day of the
arts, as well as films, lectures, and workshops. The
mission of the eco-festival was to raise ecological
literacy, to foster global citizenship, to promote
meaningful dialogue about environmental issues, and
to inspire environmental action and stewardship.
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Kingsborough Campus Cleanup
Location: Kingsborough Community College, New York
Date: April 25, 2007
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April 25, 2007, the Kingsborough Community College
chapter of the Student World Assembly in Brooklyn,
New York, hosted a Campus Cleanup in celebration of
Earth Day. The Campus Cleanup represented a movement
of SWA members to support sustainable development
and environmental conservation. By holding the event
on the Kingsborough Campus, the group wished to convey
the large impact of the individual ecological footprint
on environmental degradation. Co-sponsored by the
Kingsborough Environmental Club and Phi Theta Kappa's
Project Green, participants were provided with trash
bags and plastic gloves, and received a Campus Cleanup
t-shirt.
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New York-Dominican Republic Model UN Conference
Location: John Jay College, New York
Date: April 20, 2007
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April 20, 2007 SWA was invited to participate
in the Model United Nations of the Dominican Republic,
held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Hannah
Dunphy, Advocacy Coordinator, gave a presentation
to faculty and others entitled "Human Trafficking:
Child Sexual Exploitation in Latin America."
The presentation emphasized the importance of student
activism worldwide in combating the trade, and highlighted
SWA's yearlong campaign to eradicate trafficking.
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Becoming Natasha: A Performance about Modern Day Slavery
Location: Columbia University, New York
Date: April 24, 2007
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April 24, 2007 Columbia University hosted a performance
exposing the modern-day slavery of the multi-billion
dollar sex trade. Isadora Productions presented "Becoming
Natasha," where attendees heard the survival
stories of women trafficked into the sex industry.
Real testimony from "johns," traffickers,
and victims took people inside this multi-billion
dollar industry. SWA co-sponsored the event. Read
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Brooklyn
College Launches SWA Chapter
Location: Brooklyn
College, New York
Date: April
19, 2007
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Thursday, April 19, 2007, the newly established Student
World Assembly Chapter at Brooklyn College held their
first meeting at the Student Center. John Fitzgerald,
President of SWA-Brooklyn College, addressed the students
and professors about the need for students to become
involved and address pressing global issues. Students
learned how they could take action for issues like
human trafficking by joining SWA, and the Chapter
is currently planning events on campus for the Fall
2007. Read
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Our
Democratic Philosophy
The Student World Assembly believes that true global democracy affirms fundamental human rights, which include the dignity and worth of all human beings, the equal rights of men and women, social, economic and cultural justice for every person, and the freedom to promote these causes. SWA's representative democracy offers a powerful instrument for addressing the vital social and political conditions that threaten our global future. The informed wishes of the people, conveyed through the collective of a democratic assembly, need to be heard in the decision-making processes. By giving students from the most remote to the more accessible institutions an equal voice, we are enabling all students to educate, participate and take action, and to begin thinking of themselves as global citizens.
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