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10/21/2010

UNA-USA STUDENT ALLIANCE

It's a new week, with many changes and new awakenings to come upon. This week I am working on forming a UNA Student Alliance at the St. Petersburg campus of USF. This idea has been brought upon by a co worker, a graduate student at USF, and former undergraduate at USF. While in her undergraduate years, she had formed a Student Alliance with the UNA at the USF Tampa campus. Within her experience through this student alliance she had the opportunity of discovering many issues facing our planet and societies around the world from her peers and from the UNA. She organized group meetings to discuss important issues with her fellow peers at USF. She had the chance to run campaigns for important issues and get involved in the community to work toward improving our society and our home. She had the chance to travel to New York City and Geneva to partake in conferences of the UNA society to discuss important issues. She was able to raise awareness and educate others of important issues, such as environmental and violence issues. This will be a great opportunity for our USF St. Petersburg campus. To begin this process I need 10 individuals to sign up with me. This will be great for any LLS student, for the program will be somewhat similar to the Lead Learn Serve Program. We will be able to discuss important issues and run campaigns so we can become leaders and improve our world! The three big topics that we will be informed on from the UNA, and from there we will be able to do more research and hold meetings to discuss what we can do to make a difference. The three topics are Human Rights and International Justice, Building International Consensus on Climate Change, and Strengthening the United Nations. This is our chance as leaders to become apart of the nation's largest grassroots foreign policy and leading center of policy research on the UN and global issues! We will be able to carry out what we have been learning in the LLS program, and create more fundraisers for topical issues. We will be able to shine as leaders through this program to cause for a peaceful society and a safe environment. If you are interested edit this page and add your name and email below. I will be working hard on forming this group within the next two weeks so we can start meeting, I just need you, my fellow LLS students! I need my fellow leaders to become apart of this Student Alliance so we can really make a difference. :)

Hey Sheena - you've piqued my interest.  You can put my name down to get the group started.  Not sure if I want to dive in and participate fully just, yet.  I have my reservations about the UN, but I promise to come in with an open mind and see what the UNA-USA is all about.  Good on ya for taking the initiative and "being the change you want to see in the world!" ~ Jay

I am most defiantly on jay's side.... I have major apprehensions about the UN. Not ready to commit to club in the name of it, perhaps provide more information. mission statement?- Aberlyna Danelle <3

I'm interested, too!  Although I'm not in the current LLS program, I was last Spring.  I work full time, so I'm not sure how fully I can commit, but this is something I'd like to be a part of.

Jaime B.

jboyko@mail.usf.edu

10/25/2010

I know that some of you may feel doubtful about the UN, because of much talk and many actions by the UN's organization. The Student Alliance I am trying to form is based on the humanitarian aspect of the UN. The Student Alliance will just be a grassroots of the UN organization. This means our Student Alliance group at USFSP will be able to take the peaceful humanitarian idea basis from the UN and take it into our hands. We will be able to form our own fundraisers, discuss important issues that WE think is important, and take actions to these specific issues. The UN is run by head politicians and many military authorities. These people are the ones forming the top news and top actions of the UN organization. Politics and right for colonization and control are what gets in the way of the UN preforming for the humanitarian cause. Forming a Student Alliance with the UN, will be for our benefit for the issues we deem important. We will be able to raise awareness and fundraisers in the name of the UN, causing more attention, because the UN is such a widely known organization.

Sheena, I would be interested! :) - Andrea

10/26/2010

Today's class discussion: What's in the media?! A murder in the St. Petersburg area was brought up. Why is violence such a big topic in our American media? Why are we so attracted to the negative events? Why do we blow up a story that is considered so wrong?! Car crashes, murders, fights, war! That's all I hear about when referring to the media. These actions should be shunned, not exploited! We should not be spreading the word of radical violent acts. We should be embarrassed that this is happening within our society! We should not give attention to these horrible actions, such as murders. What kind of image is this portraying to our own society, and other societies world wide? Why aren't we exploiting positive movements, positive actions within our culture? I never hear it, and I WANT TO! I want to hear the positive image of our American culture that seems to be hidden from the media! So let's change the events we speak about, think about the events we are exploiting just through word of mouth. Is it positive or negative? What is more important to speak about?

Hi Sheena - found this today and thought of you.  Not sure if it fits with your interest but I thought I'd share :-)  Cheers. ~ Jay

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-david-perlmutter-md/neurogenesis-what-it-mean_b_777163.html

MAGNIFICENT DISCOVERY! THANKS JAY!

11/15/2010

Another week of hard lessons and valuable life experiences has passed, making another loop on my belt of life experiences. I am behind, like always, forming together my writing to evaluate research, and planning ahead for the next writing to convince paper. I am having a hard time finding a good non profit neuroscience research organization. As I go through many obstacles, I've still been planning my evaluation of a non profit neuroscience research center in the back of my head. Some unnecessary tensions have risen through the wiki recently. I try to avoid conflict and disharmony if possible, but chaos is always brewing in reality. All I can do is simply stop, observe the negative energy, and turn away. I am not one to fight for justice, for justice never seems to be served. Standing for justice only brews up negative energy within myself, which is not a common practice of mine. In my recent world religion studies I have come across a Confucius saying that states 'he who does not speak knows, and he who (readily) speaks does not know.' One with knowledge must bite his tongue at negative arguments and ruckus occurring around or directly at him. This is when justice is served, within oneself, not to the aggressor. The negative talk and energy I cannot avoid is a valuable learning experience to only train myself for what lies on the road ahead. I can only hope for a positive reality in my own world, that will shine through to those aware. Those who (readily) speak will not be able to experience the positivity within myself and all creations. I can only hope true individuals of positive nature will crowd this earth at a societal and cultural level of existence. 

11/23/2010

What's with the NEGATIVE?