"I have been involved in Global Justice since its founding months in 2001 serving both as its Chair and Honorary Chair of the Board. During this time I have watched the organization grow into the largest student network focused around the dual crises of HIV/AIDS and child health...Global Justice has quickly earned the respect of many through its policy victories and progress in building a student movement."
-Jeffrey Sachs
Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University
Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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Core Principles
Global Justice is committed to working at the campus level to build a national grassroots campaign of student activists that is empowered by local chapter leadership. The organization conducts trainings in community based organizing adapting and drawing from curriculum developed by the Midwest Academy. Global Justice campaigns embrace through the following core principles:
- Student/youth owned and led organizing and campaigning: Operating through an organizing model that prioritizes the democratic voice of student campaigners, and is driven by the grassroots. Supporting, educating and training young people to lead issue-specific campaigns, guided by our most deeply held values.
- Lasting Empowerment and Transformation: Empowering young people to push for change today, and also to become global justice activists for life.
- Informed activism: Enhancing the power and impact of our work by connecting our advocacy to the best available research.
- Political Activism and Social Justice: While supporting the values of service, we also believe in the direct need to address the political and economic roots of global injustice by promoting policies that create a more just and equitable world for all.
- Diversity: Actively engaging a diverse student constituency in order to address core sources of injustice in our society.
- Movement building: Building greater partnership between campaigns and related organizations in order to develop a broader and more collaborative movement for social change.
- Working in solidarity with youth/students internationally: Addressing the patterns of global injustice by empowering, supporting and working in partnership with those around the world fighting for change in their communities.
- Making the Global Local: Highlighting the connections between the sources of both global and local injustice.
Global Justice transforms students into social activists by offering the following core programs: 1) Launching, staffing and overseeing student campaigns on issues of global justice; 2) Supporting campus chapters and affiliate organizations that are a part of global justice student campaigns; 3) Developing and supporting international partnerships; and 4) Promoting and supporting greater collaboration within the student advocacy community.
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