Level 1 Campus Centre, Building 10, Monash Uni Clayton
Tickets available from the Activist Space or MSA Reception, Level 1 Campus Centre
MSA Environment & Social Justice Department
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1. The Environment & Social Justice Department
2. The Environment & Social Justice Collective
3. Community Garden
4. Monash Organic Vege-Box Co-Op
5. Semester 2 Activities
1. The Environment & Social Justice Department
The MSA Environment & Social Justice Department and elected officebearers facilitate student involvement in sustainability and social justice, both on campus and in the wider community. If you want to help create a more earth-friendly campus, or would like to campaign on environmental issues beyond Clayton, drop into the MSA Environment and Social Justice Office or call 9905 5493 or email ella.bc@adm.monash.edu.au or lana.kagan@adm.monash.edu.au
What we do?
On campus, we work with the university towards building more sustainable campuses through minimising consumption of water, paper and energy; purchasing and use of renewable energies, recycled paper and other eco-friendly products; minimising waste and maintaining effective recycling and composting programs. We also support and assist wider student campaigns on issues like protection of old-growth forests, fair trade, indigenous justice, refugee rights, and climate change.
The Environment Department offers a Re-Zap Battery Program. Drop your used batteries off in the Environment Department and pick up recharged batteries for a small coin donation. Re-Zap takes all alkaline batteries.
2. The Environment & Social Justice Collective
The Monash Environment and Social Justice Collective is a network of groups and individuals working together to realize their own goals, desires and visions around social and environmental change. It ensures diversity and that all people can participate equally and take responsibility for the change they want to see.
The Environment and Social Justice Collective determines its own role, though there are a few fundamental principles upon which it was founded upon:
- inclusive of all forms of organising for Environment and Social Justice, whether it be direct action, educational, advocacy, publicity, domestic and fun,
- functions as a non-hierarchical consensus body,
- includes groups and individuals with similar interests,
- a network and resource hub between existing groups on campus that have different roles,
- empowers its members and participants by providing opportunities for members,
- recognises and consistently demonstrates the inexorable links between environmental degradation and social injustice - issues that cannot be separated.
The Environment and Social Justice Collective involves and supports the following groups:
Engineers Without Borders
Biological Society
Climate Change Action Group
Pedal Australia for Clean Energy
Monash Weather and Climate Society
Monash Greens
Green Campus Program
Wholefoods Restaurant
Monash Environment Group
Monash Indigenous Solidarity Collective
Hooked Students for FairTrade
Embrace Education
Oaktree Foundation
Amnesty International Monash Sustainable Transport Department
3. Community Garden
Monash Community Garden is underway, located at the corner of the Campus centre and the Chemistry labs at Clayton campus. It aims to provide a working example of sustainable food cultivation, education and to build community.
For more information and to get involved, contact: environment.msa@adm.monash.edu.au
Dig it! day - Veggie garden working day (Mondays)
Phoebe will be there from 1-2pm every Monday in Semester 2, 2008
Location: Corner of the Campus centre and the Chemistry labs
Fridays will now be designated working bee day where people can come along and hang out in the activist space. There may even be some t-shirt making badge designing and banner making if we get ourselves organised!
4. Monash Organic Vege-Box Co-Op
Are you interested in getting a box of organic vegies each week to feed a family of four for around $30.00 or a couple for only $15.00? The Monash Uni organic fruit and vegetable co-operative was formed from the simple idea that by working together, we can purchase fresh, organic vegetables at budget-friendly wholesale prices. It is a non-profit, co-operatively run venture -- owned, controlled, and run by its members alone.
To get involved contact us on at andreana.reale@gmail.com
5. Semester 2 Activities
Come along to four days of workshops, yoga sessions, forums and a whole lot more... There's also going to be a free movie night in conjunction with Free Food Mondays, a MAD debate, a clothes swap and a kick-arse party on Thursday night to top it all off!! Learn about everything from gardening and bike maintenance to environmental theories and how to get involved. See y'all there!
To help out email Ella or Lana at environment.msa@adm.monash.edu.au
Workshop Timetable
Wednesday 6th
11am - Introduction to Facilitation
Activist Space, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
Intro to the philosophy of Facilitation - theories and processes of running meetings in a progressive & inclusive manner.
- 1pm - The M.A.D. Debate
H8, Ground, Menzies Building 11
1pm - Building and Maintaining Collectives
Activist Space, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
Starting a new environmental or social justice crew can be hard. This is a workshop/discussion around various methods and approaches to building and maintaining collectives
2pm - Class Privilege Workshop
Activist Space, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
Many people involved in environmental and social justice on campus are in a privileged situation simply by having the opportunity to attend uni. This generally goes unacknowledged. This workshop will aim to expose what class privilege looks like and begin to address how we, as students, can work to redress these inequalities.
3pm - *Open Space*
Activist Space, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
Have you got any skills or awesome ideas that you'd like to share with the world?!?! The Activist Space will be free for anyone wanting to run their own workshops/skillshares. Add your workshop name, the time and your details to the large timetable on display outside the Activist Space or Wholefoods
4pm - Plenary: Visions of Student Movements and Organising
Wholefoods, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
What is your vision of student movements? What role do student movements & organising have in a broader context? What issues affect participatory student culture? This is a plenary hoping to articulate some of the issues affecting us as students, and map out ways of moving towards the student movements we envisage. Come along to have your say...
7:30pm - Superheroes Party!!
Sir John's Bar, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
Tickets available from the Activist Space or MSA Reception, Level 1 Campus Centre
Thursday 7th
12pm - Bicycles 1020
Menzies Lawn, between buildings 10 and 11
2pm - the Clothing-Fix
Activist Space, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
Bring along all your old, holey clothes you always wanted to fix - we'll show you how to fix 'em with some basic sewing skills.
3pm - *Open Space*
Activist Space, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
See Wednesday's listing for details
5:30pm - Clothing Exchange
Airport Lounge, Level 1, Campus Centre Building 10
Friday 8th
1pm - Crafternoon / Working Bee 
a "do whatever the hell you want" day
From 1pm we will be making badges, hand printing awesome t-shirts and chilling out to rad-crazy-sick music!!
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