Macalester Peace and Justice Committee
from the Macalester Public Knowledge Base
MPJC has become a chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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[edit] MPJC-SDS Points of Unity:
MPJC-SDS is a student organization based on the principle of direct democracy.
We strive for a participatory, non-hierarchical, democratic society which meets the basic needs of all people. We work towards environmental sustainability, accessible education, unrestricted free expression, and an immediate end to all forms of oppression and domination. We strive for the end to all wars of aggression, imperialism, and the socio-economic and political structures that support and profit from them. We demand an immediate end to the wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
We oppose racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism. Our critique is systemic and we view the structures that we oppose as inextricably linked. We are committed to building meaningful coalitions to work towards justice, self-determination, and autonomy through non-hierarchical and consensus-based organizing. We aim to work on these issues through a diversity of tactics.
Our current procedure document.
Spring 2009: MPJC holds weekly meetings Tuesday nights at 9, in Carnegie 05.
[edit] Spring 2007 Events
- Ramona Africa of the Move 9 spoke about state violence
- Patrick Leet from Witness for Peace spoke about neoliberalism in Latin America
[edit] Fall 2007 Events
- Consensus Training, open to all student organizations
- Iraq War Moratorium the third friday of every month
- September: Black armbands
- November: Strike! Speak-out, workshops, mass meeting, building an anti-war campus
[edit] Current and Past Projects
- Macalester Teach-in Day: Step Back
- Funk the War Anti-war March/Actions
- Anti-War Action and Organizing
- The Macalester Infoshop
- Oaxaca Solidarity
- Imimgration Issues
- Ending the exclusive contract with Coke
- Joint projects with The Grapevine Media Collective and The Jack Pine community center
- Tent State
[edit] Notes
[edit] Other Policies and Procedures
MPJC-SDS is committed to being an actively anti-racist, anti-sexist, queer-positive, anti-abelist, and environmentalist organizing space. In practicing anti-racist, anti-sexist, and queer-positive belief, MPJC will engage in self-education and self-reflection, embracing a personal-political critique of gender, race, sexuality, class, and all power dynamics within the organization that act to marginalize, erase, or disqualify difference.
MPJC-SDS functions through non-hierarchical, consensus-based decision making.
MPJC-SDS rejects all forms of white male and heteronormative leadership/dominance.
MPJC-SDS has no membership requirements and is an open organization.
Finally, MPJC-SDS rejects elitism and vanguardism, instead valuing pluralism and critical inclusion. MPJC is not a place for antagonisms, but for political complimentarity, thought, and action.
[edit] Contact
Email MPJC-SDS at macpeace.justice at gmail.com
