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• Speak Out! On Campus

  Funded 2003-2004

• Sounds of Dissent

  Funded 2003-2004

• Youth Anti-Racism Project (YAP)

  Funded 2003-2004 YAP’s objectives are to recruit and train new volunteers and conduct anti-racism education workshops. YAP volunteers are committed to mobilizing other youth.

• University of Alberta Women's Centre Collective (UAWCC)

  Funded 2003-2012 The U of A Women’s Centre exists to provide a supportive environment for education, networking and organizing around women-specific issues within the campus community and beyond. It is a space dedicated to community building and activism, supporting women and women-positive groups to connect, dialogue, organize and create around issues and ideas. The Centre offer funding and administrative resources to support groups in carrying out their projects.

• Students for a Free Tibet

  Funded 2003-2004 Students for a Free Tibet recognizes the historical and legal status of Tibet as an independent country and supports the rights of Tibetans to determine their own future. Students for a Free Tibet uses various strategies in order to educate campuses and communities about the situation in Tibet, and to turn the awareness into positive action. They work with a variety of other Tibet support groups and human rights organizations. Underlying all activities is a commitment to non-violence, recognition for the need for universal responsibility and an interdependent world, and a firm belief that young people can and must take leadership in changing our world.

• South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA)

  Funded 2003-2004 SALSA aims to promote an understanding and appreciation of South Asian political, legal, and social issues with the overarching goal of highlighting the importance of legal discourse across borders. SALSA seeks to create a supportive community for law students, encourage South Asian involvement in the legal arena, and promote awareness of South Asian cultures and issues including, but not limited to, those of a social, political, and legal nature.

• Safe Zone

  Funded 2003-2004 There are two basic aspects to the SafeZone mandate.The first goal is education, raising awareness about various Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) issues faced by LGBTQ people at a University campus. The second aspect is to identify and train LGBTQ allies that exist at the U of A and beyond.

• Resources for Academic Excellence (RAE)

  Funded 2003-2004 RAE is dedicated to forming relationships between the newcomer community and post-secondary students. University students will be paired with newcomer youth from the community to offer free tutoring services. The objectives of RAE are to focus on disadvantaged youth, promote equal opportunity for education, help establish consistent study habits, provide a positive role model, build communication skills, and establish a long-term program in the community.

• Peregrine Falcon Webcam

  Funded 2003-2004 The Environmental Coordination Office of Students (ECOS) initiated a project to plant a webcam in the nest of a peregrine falcon couple nesting at the top of the Clinical Sciences building on the U of A campus.

• iHuman Youth Society

  Funded 2003-2004 iHuman Youth Society engages Edmonton's marginalized youth to foster positive personal development, wellbeing and social change.

• Campus Community Garden

  Funded 2003-2008 Goals: To produce food on campus without the use of pesticides, chemicals, genetically modified plants, or treated city water. To provide organic, fresh, and healthy food for students through the Campus Food Bank, a market garden, or another similar program. To create nature-connected recreational opportunities for students. To promote the cultivation of local, hardy, and easily managed vegetables.

• Brazil: Social Democratic Governance

  Funded 2003-2004 Goals: To develop a report on recent social change in Brazil, to provide observations on continuing political developments in Brazil, and to investigate how a social democratic government like the one represented by Lula can improve social development. Accomplished through the development of a small library collection devoted to resources on Brazil, the completion of a comprehensive and interactive website, the production of a short 20 minute documentary about Brazil’s current political environment, the continuation of presentations about Brazil, the compilation of a working group newsletter to print and distribute, and the sponsorship of a speaker from Brazil to do presentations about the situation in Brazil.

• Addressing AIDS

  Funded 2003-2004 This group hopes to increase public awareness of the local and global relevance of HIV/AIDS and the urgent need to arrest the free-falling cycle of infection. They are working to provide a supportive and integrative grass-roots approach to health care education, outreach, and advocacy for at-risk populations in Edmonton, especially those who “fall through the cracks” and have little or no voice in the community. Addressing AIDS hopes to rally the political will to devote more resources to addressing the HIV/AIDS problem and to empower people to break down the barriers impeding a solution to the AIDS stigma at home and the urgent AIDS pandemic abroad.

• The Olive

  Funded 2003-2011 The Olive is a non-profit editorial collective established by students and former students at the University of Alberta in 2000 to provide a regular and consistent forum for poetry in Edmonton. The mandate of the organization is to feature local writers and poets from across Canada. The Olive fosters an environment where local writers and poetry enthusiasts can interact with artists from the larger literary community.

• Student Worker Action Group (SWAG)

  Funded 2002-2010 SWAG organizes around issues that affect working class students, either students who work jobs while going to school, or students as workers in training. This includes teaching students how to organize unions, working with unions on campus, and struggling to improve the conditions of student labour.

• Simplefood Organic Food Cooperative

• Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC)

  Funded 2003-2004 The Sierra Youth Coalition Working Group encourages awareness and action on environmental issues through lobbying and consciousness-raising on the University campus and the greater Edmonton community. Our mandate is to seek coalitions amongst other groups with similar mandates to assert our collective voice to move us on a path of greater ecological and social sustainability. In Spring (2003) a group of students formed an APIRG working group under the banner of the Sierra Youth Coalition, UofA Chapter. The plan was to form an environmental activist group on campus and create greater awareness about environmental issues, especially those pertaining to the campus ecosystem. The Environmental Coordination Office of Students (ECOS) was a contributing member of this working group.

• Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA)

  Funded 2002-2004 The ESPA is an incorporated, not-for profit arts association that is committed to fostering the awareness and development of independent small-press ventures. The ESPA has an extensive resource library and small press archive, and tech equipment such as industry-standard computers and peripherals, a community photocopier, and more. The ESPA is a resource network for independent producers from all walks of life and skill levels, fostering the D.I.Y. or Die philosophy that anyone can be creative and anyone can have a voice.

• U of A Coalition Against War and Racism (UCAWAR)

  Funded 2002-2004 UCAWAR intends to create public space to debate and share information about democratic, humanitarian and egalitarian alternatives to war, militarization, and racism through actions like teach-ins, read-ins, theatrical agitation, and creating and reproducing antiwar publications for schools.

• Biofreedom

  Funded 2002-2008 Biofreedom is committed to consumer advocacy and education concerning Genetically Engineered (GE) foods. They plan to conduct a public awareness campaign about the issues concerning genetic engineering and mandatory labeling of GE food products, and to promote awareness of GE Wheat.