Student Advocacy
One of Alliance for Justice’s primary goals is to provide educational resources to support the next generation of advocates.
Every year on the first Monday in October, the opening of the Supreme Court's session, Student Action Campaign unites student activists on college, university, and law school campuses nationwide to fight for social justice. For more than a decade, AFJ’s First Monday program has produced award-winning documentary films and programs designed to educate the public about important social justice issues and to expose students to careers in public interest advocacy. In 2006, SAC produced the documentary Quiet Revolution in response to the alleged right wing take over of the federal court system. Quiet Revolution has since been distributed to more than 25,000 viewers across the nation, and SAC has gone on to produce Supreme Injustices and Access Denied?, released in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
Student Action Campaign is a campus-based program designed to raise awareness about vital social justice issues. Past campaigns have explored issues such as housing and homelessness, the death penalty, gun violence, and post-9/11 civil liberties.
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“When our kids are young, many of us rush out to buy a cute little baby book to record the meaningful events of our young child’s life...But I’ve often thought there should be a second book, one with room to record the moral milestones of our child’s lives. There might be space to record dates she first shared or showed compassion or befriended a new student or thought of sending Grandma a get-well card or told the truth despite its cost.”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)