Outraged about genocide in Sudan?
Incensed about extraordinary rendition?
Furious and fuming about university apparel being produced in sweatshops?
Would you like $500 to organize a campaign or series of events on your campus this Spring to address these issues or other related human rights issues? Take action and start a campaign to protect human rights at your school with AID’s "Rights Camera Action" project!
What is Rights Camera Action? You propose innovative campaigns around a global human rights issues and document your experiences on film. Your proposal will be evaluated on its potential to create substantive change at your university and to guide similar efforts on other campuses. Potential campaign issues and ideas include, but are not limited to: getting your university to divest from Darfur, getting fair trade food served in your university’s dining services, labor rights, immigration and immigrant rights, access to health care and medicines, extraordinary rendition, and a number of different fundraising events.
AID will select up to 10 winning ideas and provide you with:
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Each campus group will return to their school, conduct the campaign, and create a short film or video toolkit showing how others could replicate their campaign idea on another campus.
The top video toolkit will be chosen from the ten finalists by a nationwide vote on the AID website. The students with the most innovative and successful campaign will win an additional $500. Other campus groups can then apply for a $200 mini-grant to bring the winning campaign to their campus.
Are you ready to be an agent for change, to take action to promote human rights? To submit a proposal, please go to http://globalscholar.org/rca.
The deadline for applications has been extended to January 18, 2008!
How Do I Apply?
Phase 1 – November 10, 2007 – January 18, 2008: Submit your 1-2 page proposals online at: http://globalscholar.org/rca.
Successful proposals will contain three important characteristics:
- Will the proposed campaign connect global human rights challenges to local issues?
- Is the campaign replicable on campuses around the nation?
- Does the proposal provide a brief description of how the funds will be spent and a clear action/implementation plan?
Phase 2 – January 18, 2008 to January 22, 2008: A selection committee will screen the proposals and pick 10 finalists. The proposals will be judged based on the effectiveness and creativity of the campaign, the proposed technique and craftsmanship of the film-making, and the potential for the campaign model to be replicated in other campus or community environments.
The finalists will be invited to a retreat in Washington, DC on February 1-2, 2008. There they will learn even more about climate change and renewable energy and receive a special training on how to prepare a short multimedia toolkit. They will also receive their mini-grants of $500 each to implement the proposals.
Phase 3 - January 121, 2008 to May 1, 2008: The 10 finalists will return to their campus to plan and implement their campaigns. During the planning and implementation process, the students will film, photograph and otherwise document the steps they took and the results they achieved with their campaign. This film will serve as a toolkit to inspire and inform other students on how to implement a similar campaign on their campus.
The films will be displayed on the AIDemocracy and Witness websites where they will be available for a public vote. The winning entry will receive $500 and the winning design will be the model for future mini-grants.
Phase 4 – May 1, 2008 to December 1, 2008: AID will provide up to 50 mini-grants of $200 to students who seek to use the video toolkit to launch similar campaigns on their campuses.
**At this time, we are only able to offer this opportunity to students who attend school in the United States**