MassPIRG
From UMassWiki
MassPIRG (Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group) is an RSO at UMass Amherst dedicated to social change.
If you’re interested in any of the following campaigns, MassPIRG offers a volunteer or internship opportunity worth up to three credits per semester.
- New Voters Project: Getting young people ages 18-24 to register and pledge to vote. If we want legislators to listen to us, we need to show them that we’re involved in politics.
- Campus Climate Challenge: Lower the effects of global warming by starting close to home. This campaign urges the campus to conserve energy and use clean, renewable energy sources.
- Water Watch: Preserve and clean-up local water sources. This campaign ranges from water testing and phytoremediation to advocacy and policy changing. Also included is work to preserve and maintain parks and forests.
- Hunger and Homelessness: Community outreach projects and communication with politicians to take care of the hungry and homeless. Also included is work for Darfur, the genocide in Sudan, and lobbying to the United Nations.
- Affordable Textbooks: This project works on making textbooks and higher education in general more affordable for students, including work on student debt.
- Save Darfur: Working to raise campus awarness on the genocide in Darfur and helping to bring it to an end. This campaign holds many campus events each semester. Events in the past include: a coffee house, a fashion show, a die-in on the campus lawn and more. In addition to the campus events the campaign members attended Darfur-related rallies in Washington,DC, Boston, and New York City.
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