
To the Editor:As a local graduate student who has health insurance and a limited income, I am forced on a regular basis to choose when I can afford to see a doctor...

One of the ways that the Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program helps students hone their persuasive writing is to encourage them to write lots of letters to the editor. Here's a letter to the editor on animal rights recently published in the Keene Sentinel...

KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE JOINS GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTIONTO SPREAD MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER IN THE WORLDOne of Over 5,000 Simultaneous 350 Events in Over 180 CountriesKeene, NH: October 24th—Over 80 people from Keene State College, Antioch University New England, and the wider Keene community gathered S...

Antioch University New England Environmental Advocacy & Organizing Program Go Wendy, Go Vegan! Another LTE published!
Source: www.sentinelsource.com
Recently, Kenny Crammer wrote to the editor about the horrific treatment that animals are forced to endure during their brief yet excruciating lives on factory farms.

Antioch University New England Environmental Advocacy & Organizing Program my LTE - 350.org Climate Action this Saturday in Keene.
Source: www.sentinelsource.com
On Oct. 24, I’m joining the Monadnock community for a rally at Railroad Square at noon.

Antioch University New England Environmental Advocacy & Organizing Program Derrick Jensen has a timely article in the July/Aug Orion about the true social and political change. It's a nice read and reminder as we start a new school year in the EAOP.
Source: www.orionmagazine.org
Why personal change is not a substitute for political change.

Check out this interview with environmental writer Bill McKibben on the Colbert Report, the Comedy Channel's fake right-wing news program. The interview is about McKibben's new climate action effort called 350.org...

In the Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program's introductory course in "Organizing Social Movements and Campaigns," we spend time looking at a variety of campaign tactics, including organized boycotts and "buycotts." This tactic has been used effectively by such venerable nonviolent...

EAOP grad Peter Alexander was able to perform his "health care blues" song Begging for Change at a demonstration in our nation's capital several days ago. It was picked up on You Tube (see below) and was noted in an Associated Press news story.

Last week, EAOP graduate Peter Alexander was asked by the SEIU "Change that Works" campaign to write a song about the broken U.S. healthcare system...

One of my favorite activist writers is Audre Lorde, a very spirited and incisive African American, lesbian-feminist thinker...

From Carrie Abels in Montpelior, Vermont:There’s something to be said for an advocacy group that is small, highly focused, and under an intense deadline. ...

Antioch University New England Environmental Advocacy & Organizing Program A letter to the editor published in the 4-19-09 Keene Sentinel. by ES student, Robin Phillips
Source: www.keenesentinel.com

Antioch University New England Environmental Advocacy & Organizing Program A letter to the editor published in the 4-17-09 Keene Sentinel. by EAO student, Mike Goudzwaard
Source: www.keenesentinel.com
President Obama and Congress are faced with 21st century climate realities.

Dear Friends of Antioch,Antioch New England graduate students and faculty have been involved with the people of the Western Shoshone of Nevada for the past few years with practicum projects, Advocacy Clinic projects, and a field studies course.We are writing to enlist your help in an urgentissue of...
















