IN the midst of what has been going on in our area recently, it would be easy to pack up and go home. Say good bye to the campaign we were working on this semester, and forget about more evnts this fall. Hopefully though it won't come to that. Hopefully all the students that have been affected by these fires can rebuild and move on with their plans. So, we are still committed to getting College of the Canyons to sign on to the Consortium. It might take longer than it would've normally, but it should happen. Especially because it seems like more and more things are coming to light in my own life about how I need to take action against these forces I don't agree with. What a better time than now to think about change when disaster strikes and change is on the air. We held a movie night a few weeks ago and showed a doc about Walmart called "the High Cost of Low Prices." That was an eye-opener as well. The country and our whole society are on different roads of decline and disaster unless we change the system from within. Where can me and my fellow students start: with our college. Sustaining things and supporting equality and justice are the things we advocate. Let us take steps to ensure thsoe things don't burn up like so many trees.
Progressive Student Alliance decided to play "The High Cost of Low Prices" this week on Friday for the viewing pleasure of the College of the Canyons student body. It will be our second movie night and let's hope it's a hit. Our outreach campaign is going slow but it has been a busy week for all involved so that's okay. We've been tabling and we will continue to table to get more support for our campaign.
As the fall semester of 2007 at C.O.C. comes to about a mid-point, the Progressive Student Alliance is just gearing up to be active as far as hosting some events and raising awareness about our campaign for this year. Our first movie night went well, with about 25 - 35 people coming out to watch "The Take," a documentary about workers organizing collective ownership of various factories that closed during the economic collapse of Argentina in the late 1990s. It was extremely interesting to see what labor politics are like in a place like Argentina. I was also surprised that the factories ran so smoothly without the interference of the companies that had once owned them or government regulatory aparatii. Our goals this fall include trying to get our college to become a member school of the Workers' Rights Consortium, which would guarantee the clothes that get sold in our school store becoming globally fair products. As usual with a campus organization, we are always optimistic about new members coming on board at all points during the semester. Other than that, our second movie night will be held next week, and we will be planning the final touches to our outreach process tomorrow at a meeting.
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