This year we are planning a 3 day, 60 person Training to teach participants how to better faciliate discussions about race. We are therefore working with the administration and college system. We are an active member of the Pan Ethnic Coalition. As a new organization, our main focus is group formation and consolidation.

After the recent deaths of two homeless people, we are working to ensure that everyone has access to shelter during the winter months by passing a No-Freeze Ordinance through the Board of Aldermen. We are also working on opposing the 90-day policy, which limits people's access to shetlers year round and fails to provide adequate assistance to help people permenantly attain self-sufficiency. Empowerment of clients in individual shelters to handle shelter-specific greivances and a new newsletter for homeless people will also be focused on. General meeting times are Sunday nights at 7:30 in the SJN room. All are welcome.

This semester, join us as we begin work on a new campaign around anti-predatory lending legislation.

SLAM works with a broad range of campus and community partners to educate students about the problems of the criminal justice system and, with that knowledge as a base, to activate students to participate in everything from petitions and legislative campaigns to civil disobedience and direct action.

This semester, SLAM is planning a Forum addressing Yale Police interaction with the community and Yale Administration investments. The group has also been working on a highschool education program that will teach New Haven youth about the prison industrial complex and how they can get more involved in activism. We are also starting our campaign to Bus local families with no means of transportation to out-of-town prisons.

This semester, qPAC is at work on multiple levels. The Yale Issues Working Group is exploring ways in which the University can demonstrate broader support for queer studies, working with the Student/Faculty Alliance for Military Equality to restore the Law School's Anti-Discrimination policy, and pushing the administration to change rules on cohabitation. The New Haven/Connecticut Issues Working Group is mobilizing support for civil unions and gay marriage initiatives in New Haven and Connecticut. qPAC is also working to establish a broad network of college queer organizations to coordinate wider actions. General meetings are Wednesdays at 9pm in the Yale Women's Center (next to Durfee's).

Our goals are:
A just labor contract
A comprehensive overhaul of university governance, which incorporates the voices of all members of this community
Recognition of all workers' right to organize
Vigilant protection of free expression for all members of this community
To make Yale a national model of diversity in and outside the classroom
A true partnership between Yale and New Haven to ensure good education and job opportunities for all

This semester, we are focusing on raising awareness on campus through educational campaigns including speakers, tabling, and flyering, and we are hoping to work in conjunction with the newly established national Campus Anti-War Network (CAN) to help stop the war. General meeting times are Thursday nights at 9pm in the SJN room.

This semester, we're planning to march on DC for affirmative action, to support the UNFPA's 34 Million Friends Campaign, and to work to get gender better integrated into non Women's Studies disciplines. Meeting times are Wednesdays at 10pm in the Women's Center.