Community Service Learning

A great example of some of the course-based community service learning opportunities available to ES advocacy students is the work that students did in our foundation course "Organizing for Social Change" back in Fall 2010. At the beginning of that semester, a Transition Keene Task Force member asked the class to help with local organizing for 10/10/10, a Global Work Party for Climate Solutions sponsored internationally by 350.org. The class agreed and then planned and carried out several 10/10/10 related activities including the filming and editing of this 30 minute documentary about all the Keene 10/10/10 workparties, including AUNE's. The students in this organizing class also:

Raised over $1,010.10 for Antioch's Green Bikes Initiative;
Hosted a film and discussion on the international Transition Movement for the wider community in the AUNE Library Media Room;
Organized three bike related workshops on campus for the wider Keene community as well as inspired other AUNE students to have a workparty putting Antioch's community garden to bed for the season and build compost bins; and
Promoted turn out of Antioch students, faculty, staff, and alumni at the Keene-wide evening climate work parties celebration downtown.

In each of these ways, the students in the Organizing For Social Change class helped Antioch become a key part of 10/10/10 — the largest day of global climate activism in world history, involving 7,300 communities in 188 countries. They also learned a lot along the way.