Category: General

I received the following email announcement asking to help publicize an employment opportunity for graduating seniors:

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Are you interested in a job fighting global warming or promoting gay & lesbian civil rights? Here’s your chance! We have job openings starting in August 2008!

We at the Fund for Public Interest Research (aka “the Fund”) are hiring smart, passionate students to help run our offices across the country next year, working on behalf of leading progressive organizations including the Sierra Club, the State Environment Groups (e.g. Environment Massachusetts), and Human Rights Campaign.

We’re conducting an info session and interviews at U MASS Amherst on March 11th and 12th.

Here’s the scoop:
WHAT: Info Session & Interviews w/ the Fund for Public Interest Research
WHEN: March 11th Information Session (for details contact kurquiza@ffpir.org or pmansperger@ffpir.org)
HOW: Sign up for interviews by emailing kurquiza@ffpir.org or contacting the career office.

If you want to learn more, check out www.fundcareers.org and/or contact me, Kristin Urquiza at kurquiza@ffpir.org for more information.

And please feel free to post this e-mail on any and all listservs so we can reach more people about these opportunities. And forward this to any friend who might be interested!

Thanks, and hope to see you soon!

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Kristin Urquiza
Regional Director, The Fund for Public Interest Research
PO Box 120-271
Boston, MA 02112
617-747-4368
kurquiza@ffpir.org
www.fundcareers.org

This blog will be used in conjunction with my Sociology 361 course that I am teaching in the Spring 2008 semester at UMass Amherst. On this blog I will post announcements and updates about the course, current events and news items that relate to course issues and material, and upload readings, handouts, and other materials for students to download.

Students can also participate on this blog by (1) submitting their own short posts on issues and materials covered in class, or current events and news items that relate to the course issues and materials, and/or (2) commenting on either my posts or those of your classmates.

There are only two rules for submitting a post or a comment: (1) you must register on this site and post using your real name (and also for me to know who to give credit to) and (2) respectful disagreement and constructive debate are fine and encouraged, but comments that are abusive, slanderous, threatening, or blatantly racist are not.

Finally, remember that posts can relate to any kind of media (articles from the textbook, newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, YouTube videos, TV shows, etc.) but should focus on a ‘serious’ issue related to race/ethnicity.

So for example, writing something like, “Hey, what’s up with J Lo’s dress at the Grammy Awards last night?” is not a serious race/ethnicity issue. However, something like, “What do people think about Kanye West’s comment that ‘George Bush doesn’t care about Black people’ on the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert last night?” or “Did everyone see the latest episode of Big Brother last night? Was [Contestant x]’s comment to [Contestant Y] racist? are appropriate.

Thanks for your cooperation and participation!