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Want to make a difference?
Come check out the Service Fair being hosted by the JMU Community Service Learning Office. This is a great chance to meet representatives from many organizations and learn about diverse service opportunities. A few of the many organizations that will be present include the Peace Corps, Teach for America, and Habitat for Humanity. This is a great way to speak with local, national, and international agencies that are all about making a difference. Come check it out Tuesday February 5th, 2009 in Transitions.
For more information, visit CS-L in Wilson 204 or call us at 540-568-6366 or see our website: www.jmu.edu/csl.
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Feb. 20: Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar, 3:35 p.m., Room 107, Jackson Hall: Dale Harter of Bridgewater College presents “‘Hell No, We Won’t Go’…Back: The Rockingham Rebellion, Spring 1862”; sponsored by the JMU Department of History and Lord Fairfax Community College; free.
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March 16-May 1: “Marching Through History with Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers” Exhibition, during normal Festival Conference and Student Center hours, PRISM Gallery: In this photo-documentary by Cathy Murphy that shows the most famous moments of the labor movement to some of the most private, Chávez is seen as a family man, dancing with his daughter at her wedding and practicing yoga. At the same time, he is also seen as stressed by the ordeal, worried. Other photos show the inspiration that was required of him before workers and before the press. Murphy documents the plight of workers in the field, the fight to resist child workers and the 1975 march through the state of California known as the 1,000 Mile March. In this historic 58-day march from San Ysidro to Keene, Calif., Chávez educated farm workers about a new law, the Agricultural Labor Relations Act; free.
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The CSL Service Fair had a wide variety of organizations there, all advocating people lending a helping hand through service. There were nationally known organizations such as the United Way, Big Brothers-Big Sisters and Habitat for Humanity, as well as local organizations such as Harrisonburg/Rockingham ARC and the local homeless shelter. There were opportunities to help out and give services locally or world wide. Organizations that advocate the fight against AIDS and Hunger were some of the opportunities that would let ones service go far beyond their local perimeters. The fair had a very positive turnout, observing some people they were only there because it was a passport event, while others seemed genuinely interested in dedicating a part of their life to service. Overall the fair showed how many different opportunities there are locally and world wide there are to give a part of yourself to the service of others who are less fortunate.
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