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Environmental Advocacy and Organizing
The Advocacy Clinic
Making A Difference By Directly Serving Activist Organizations
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Clinic participants provide pro bono advocacy work on behalf of Clinic clients—organizations at the local, state, national or international level working for environmental protection, corporate accountability, democratic governance and social justice. We pursue purposeful results for clients that gain access and provide voice in the decision-making process, change power relations and serve the public interest. The Clinic brings the community into the classroom and the classroom into the community.
Grounded in their substantive knowledge of environmental science and advocacy skills gained in their first year at Antioch New England, Clinic participants provide advocacy research, public policy critiques and analysis, strategic planning, issue and corporate campaign materials, action planning, and communications and membership development plans to Clinic clients.
Project Proposals
Download the 2008 Call for Project Proposals (PDF 26K)
RFP deadline: August 1, 2008
Examples of Clinic work to date include:
- bringing the award-winning radio news show “Democracy Now!” to Keene on behalf of a local civic education group and building a sustainable base of support for community radio
- Researching and drafting communications pieces for UN advocacy and corporate engagement & shareholder activism in support of the Western Shoshone Defense Project's efforts to stop expansion of gold mining operations onto sacred tribal lands by Canada-based Barrick Gold Corporation.
- providing research and advocacy support for two natural resource extraction corporate shareholder proposals by the New York City Employees Retirement System
- Successful advocacy to establish a town conservation commission in Burlington, Connecticut
- Building effective grassroots campaigns for passage of legislation supporting New Hampshire’s Land and Community Heritage Program (LCHIP) and a Maine ballot initiative to grant current-use tax status to working waterfronts
- Organizing a state-wide strategy meeting for Vermonters working to challenge the harms of genetically modified seeds and foods
- Rights-based community organizing and advocacy to challenge a polluting power plant and to strengthen democratic governance in Russell, Massachusetts
- developing a media strategy for a Connecticut-based healthy schools grassroots organization
- designing/testing a member development strategy for a national campaign finance reform group
- completing research on access to municipal water systems on behalf of Public Citizen
- developing a template for municipal climate change action plans on behalf of Massachusetts Climate Action Network
- Completing research on alternative pest control models for the Boston-based Neighborhood Pesticide Action Committee
- providing campaign strategy guidance and a corporate profile to a Massachusetts’ North Shore citizens’ organization seeking better environmental practices by a multinational mining corporation operating in their town
- developing a corporate profile of Wal-Mart for national organizations campaigning to pass federal legislation mandating greater transparency of U.S.-based multinationals’ overseas operations.
The Clinic accepts project proposals for multifaceted advocacy in domestic and international settings. The deadline for submissions for the Fall 2008 docket is August 1, 2008. For details about how to submit a project proposal, download our Request for Proposals (PDF 26K) or contact:
Abigail Abrash Walton, Clinic Director
Faculty
Department of Environmental Studies
Antioch University New England
40 Avon Street
Keene, NH 03431
Tel: 603.283.2344; Fax: 603/357-0718
E-Mail Abigail
Clinic Clients to Date
- ALCRER (Benin)
- American Friends Service Committee (New Hampshire)
- Americans for Campaign Reform (New Hampshire)
- Antioch New England Student Alliance (New Hampshire)
- Brattleboro Climate Protection (Vermont)
- Canary Committee (Connecticut)
- Center for Democracy and the Constitution (Massachusetts)
- Clean Air-Cool Planet (New Hampshire)
- Coalition for the Health of Aggregate Industries Neighbors (Massachusetts)
- Coalition of NH Land Conservation Organizations Advocating for LCHIP Funding (New Hampshire)
- Connecticut Association of Conservation and Inland Wetland Commissions (Connecticut)
- Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Association (Connecticut)
- Democracy Now! Project of the Monadnock Region (New Hampshire)
- Environmental Partnerships (Massachusetts)
- G.A.L.A. Co-op (New Hampshire)
- International Labor Rights Fund (Washington, D.C.)
- League of Pissed Off Voters (New Hampshire)
- Maine Congress of Lakes Association (Maine)
- Massachusetts Climate Action Network (Massachusetts)
- Monadnock Community Radio Project (New Hampshire)
- Native Wind Powering America (Vermont)
- Neighborhood Pesticide Action Committee (Massachusetts)
- New Hampshire Campaign for the U.S. Department of Peace (New Hampshire)
- New Hampshire Council of Churches (New Hampshire)
- New Hampshire Rivers Council (New Hampshire)
- Ocean State Clean Cities Coalition (Rhode Island)
- PrioritiesNH (New Hampshire)
- Public Citizen (Washington, D.C.)
- Reclaim Democracy (Massachusetts)
- Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights (Washington, D.C.)
- Save Our Working Waterfront Jobs Coalition (Maine)
- The Naked Truth Project (Maine)
- Toxics Action Center (Vermont)
- Valley Alliance for Smart Growth (Rhode Island)
- Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety (Massachusetts)
- Western Shoshone Defense Project
- Windham County Genetic Engineering Action Group (Vermont)
- Working Families Win (New Hampshire)
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