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Campus Organizer: 2014-2015 Job Description

Every day, powerful people are making decisions that affect our health, our safety and our future. In Civics 101, we're taught these decisions should be based on the public interest: that's how a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is supposed to work. Yet in the real world, on issue after issue, we see powerful interests corrupting the democratic process, twisting public policy to serve their own ends, all too often at the public's expense.

How do you counter those powerful interests? The Student PIRGs are mobilizing America's college students to take action. Our Campus Organizers are headed to 50 college campuses across the country, where they will recruit, train and work alongside thousands of student activists. Together we'll go beyond studying the issues; we'll document the problems, find practical solutions, inform the public and make the case directly to decision-makers. And when powerful special interests stand in the way, we'll mobilize the student body, the local citizens and as many people as it takes to make our voices heard in city halls, state capitols, Congress, the White House or wherever it will make a difference.

Contact Info

Kathy Glista
413-542-2265
Please call the college operator at 413-542-2000 or e-mail info@amherst.edu if you require contact info @amherst.edu