Check
Out the Student PIRGs' Activist Toolkit:
This resource guide has helpful how-tos on organizing
skills including recruitment, leadership development,
media, and grassroots organizing. CALPIRG's High Speed Rail Campaign: Students spent their spring break traveling the proposed route for California’s high speed rail line, building support along the way.
Make
Textbooks Affordable: We're working to encourage professors to use free "Open Textbooks." Check out the campaign!
Education Week 2008: New Jersey Water Watch organized a week-long service event throughout the state to educate thousands of young people about water quality issues in their neighborhoods.
Student Debt Alert: Get the resources you need to call attention to student loan debt at your school.
Truth
About Credit: Read our new report, Campus Credit Card Trap, which outlines the unfair marketing practices of the credit industry. Hunger and Homelessness: Donate to the Hunger Cleanup, a one day service-a-thon.The money raised goes to local, national and international hunger relief organizations.
New
Voters Project:The youth vote is making a huge impact in primaries and caucuses across the country. Check out our work to turn out the vote!
Truth About Credit:
Help stop out-of-control marketing and unfair
practices of the credit card industry.
Register to Vote :
2008 is a huge election year. Register to vote and make sure your voice is heard.
Presidents Commitment to Civic Engagement: See how you can get your campus to sign on.
Affordable Textbooks:
The Student PIRGs are working to get publishers
to lower the price of textbooks.
Start a New Chapter: Find out how to start a new PIRG chapter at your college.