3 easy ways to getting involved...
Get an internship... Check out one of our info sessions to find out about how you can get an internship for course credit.
Get involved… You can come to one of our upcoming events and volunteer. See upcoming events above.
Stop by one of our meetings...
Core Meetings
Every Tuesday
12:30 p.m. -1:15 p.m.
South C Room (lower level of the Campus Center)
Where interns and volunteers plan future events, make decisions about campaigns, and give updates on the status of the chapter. One stop shop for finding out what’s going on. New members always welcomed.
Intern Class
Every Thursday
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Fine Arts Building, Room 108
Come learn the skills you need to make an impact on the issues you care about. Interns, volunteers, student groups, and curious folks welcome.
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2010 Spring Campaigns!
Global Warming Solutions
Hunger and Homelessness
Sustainable Camden
Affordable Higher Education
Expanding Healthcare
21st Century Transportation
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To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.
- Walt Whitman
Here are a few of our accomplishments from this last semester.
New Voters Project
- Over 180 students were registered to vote for the gubernatorial election in Camden.
- NJPIRG Students with the Law School Voter's Rights Project and Office of Campus Involvement put together a voter tailgate party inviting student leaders SGA president, Jon Madison, and President of the Student Bar Association, Sandy Budd, and assembly candidates, Angel Fuentes and Stephanie Grecy-Velez, to speak on the importance of voting. Through this event and phone banking they contacted and reminded over 400 people to vote on Election Day for the New Jersey's governor race.
- NJPIRG students registered 4,500 across the state, and made 9,000 Get Out the Vote contacts.
Global Warming Solutions
- NJPIRG students have distributed over 400 light bulbs to Rutgers students and Camden citizens by partnering with Project Porchlight.
- Interns and volunteers helped revitalize vacant lots in the city with Camden GreenUp. In eleven weeks 81 vacant lots were “greened”, over 141,000 square feet. Students attended two events where 6 lots total were greened. Students were able to hear prominent community members speak at the final event, such as Mayor Gwendolyn Faison and John Bon Jovi.
- Interns partnered with Residence Life and put together a tour of the University Residence Halls that highlighted the green initiatives the school has put in place, educating students and community members alike on how simple and cost effective Global Warming solutions can be. Fox 29 came out and attended the tour, airing it on the 10 o'clock news.
- Interns educated their peers through orchestrating a call-in day, September 24th, to Senator Lautenberg, generating 75 phone calls to the Senator's office from Rutgers students in 3 hours. Student PIRG chapters across the nation participated in the call-in day and students generated a total of 2,500 calls to their Senators in a day. Rutgers dropped off photo petitions of students with a seven foot-tall Senator Lautenberg Superhero asking him to be a champion for Climate Control at his Camden office. They met with his staff to discuss what they expected to see in the Climate Control bill.
- During the call in day students asked for a stronger Climate Control Bill and for the closing of the loophole that did not allow the EPA to regulate stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the House Bill. Days later the Senate introduced a version of the bill without this loophole.
- Students participated in the international Climate Day of Action also known as 350 day on Oct. 24th. While educating Philadelphia citizens on issues of Global Warming an intern collected video petitions asking President Obama to ensure the passage of the Climate Control Bill and represent America in the Copenhagen Conference on climate control. The Video Petition was sent to Obama and uploaded to YouTube. Students also participated in a human formation of the number 350, representing the safe amount of carbon particles per million in the ozone, which was sent to world leaders. There were over 5200 events in 181 countries that day.
- On November 23rd President Obama announced his plans to attend the Copenhagen conference on world climate control.
Hunger and Homelessness
- NJPIRG interns have formed an after school program that meets twice a week at the Urban Women's Crisis Shelter in Camden. They tutor kids on their homework and plan art projects to allow the children to express themselves creatively. The program has grown from 5 initially to 18 students in just a few weeks.
- Students Chantal-Annik Ezoua, Gabby Schwalbe and Michael Kuzma have worked all semester on food, clothes, and toy drives for the community. They have raised a total of 148 clothes items and 3 boxes of food.
- NJPIRG assisted a Jumpstart intern Samantha Rozzell in a Faces of Hunger Panel. The panel featured an organizer from Project HOPE, two New Jersey citizens who shared their experiences with Homelessness, and an NJPIRG intern. They educated 30 students and community members on the issues of Hunger and Homelessness and what steps can be taken to combat the problem.
- NJPIRG, the Black Student Union and the Jewish Student Union presented The Resolution Dance. Funded by SGA, Campus Activities Board and Office of Campus Involvement.
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NJPIRG Camden in the News
http://www.philly.com/community/archives/features/69384567.html
http://www.nsns.org/news/new-jersey-students-push-voting-and-voting-rights
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20091030/NEWS01/910300348/1006
http://www.projectporchlight.com/press/clipping/examinercom-local-organizations-support-september-11th-national-day-service-and-remem