This is the brand new blog for the University Organizing Center! We’re just getting started, but our goal is to make this blog into an accessible space for updates and information about the University Organizing Center as well as a forum for news and discussion about student organizing and activism more generally.
The UOC is a space located at 190 High St, on the main floor. It was established after a wave of powerful activism in the spring of 2004. This wave of activism lead to the creation of 200 Church, Korean House, Turath House and an Anti-Oppression Center, which soon became the University Organizing Center we have today!
The mission statement written in 2005 by the student who organized for the space reads:
The University Organizing Center serves as a resource and support to students who seek to understand the intersections of oppressions in our broader society as well as seek to question, interrogate and work towards finding solutions to end multiple oppressions. To this end, we will reach out to the campus to facilitate dialogues and actions around these and other social justice issues. We seek to create a space that acts as a working model for the world we envision in the future, where privileges are not used to repress and dominate, and where we encourage students and student organizations to organize and create programs toward this end. And above all else, we will have fun!
The University Organizing Center a student controlled space, so our power is in our own hands. Within the University Organizing Center you can find: an anti-oppression library, several meeting rooms (ranging from big comfy couches to conference room-style tables and chairs), a zine library, office and storage spaces your group can use and a variety of other resources, games and supplies.
Questions? Ideas for the blog? Ideas for the University Organizing Center? email mmcguire@wesleyan.edu