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About STJC: Partners History National Team Campaigns Principles Partners :: Organizations :: Academics Organizational Partners STJC knows that the trade justice movement includes a wide number of organizations with many variant opinions, and that pretty much everyone could benefit from getting better in touch with students in the U.S. We also recognize that making progress towards trade justice is something that requires broad collaboration across a variety of groups. And we're also aware that just about every trade activist has twice as much to do as they could ever reasonably get done. Keeping these things in mind, STJC is interested in forming relationships with organizations and coalitions who are a part of the struggle for trade justice. We're looking to both broad partnerships, generally made up of information sharing and the occasional conversation when necessary, as well as specific relationships, where we actually connect individual people from STJC to individual people within your organization for specific purposes or projects. Given that the broader relationships tend to develop spontaneously, our focus here is on how we can put together the more specific relationships. It's crucial to emphasize that we don't see these relationships working unless they're really beneficial for both of us on our own terms. For this reason, we've brainstormed a potential list of ways in which the different divisions of STJC could be of benefit to your work. (If you'd like a recap of our basic structure, there's a summary here.) Advocacy Integrate your issues into our own strategic objectives Get traction for your issues on college campuses Potentially pass your e-alerts through our listservs Include your headlines in our newsletter Bring student energy and cost-free capacity to coalition work, otherwise run on individuals' spare time Provide you a bank of interns with experience in relevant areas Provide an easy-access, knowledgeable base for phone banking Provide direct feedback on how your messaging and issues are received on campuses Carry your issues to relevant conferences Policy Provide literature reviews Full-blown and free research outsourcing Specific support of targeted research areas Provide you a bank of interns with knowledge and experience Provide access to the super-expensive research tools to which universities maintain subscriptions Collect, distill/analyze, and relay current information from your field that is outside your time capacity to maintain Bring student energy and cost-free capacity to coalition work, otherwise run on individuals' spare time Dialogue facilitation between you and other organizations/individuals in related fields International Partnerships Provide a level of individual, direct attention to your international partners impossible with paid staff Provide access to our international partners for research, networking, or other purposes Provide Southern perspectives/information for inclusion in your own work Provide a bank of experienced volunteers versed in your protocols and quickly able to join in your international work Again, this is just a brainstormed list - if you've got ideas, we'd be thrilled to explore them. As a general rule, STJC is looks to these relationships to make sure that we're directly connected to the pulse of the trade justice movement. This usually begins with a general request for information and information sources, anything from listservs to books. From there, the most productive relationships will likely be project-based: if there's a specific issue you or someone in your organization is working on that could use some student-power behind, and the experience the student would gain from that project could really benefit STJC, then intern-at-a-distance might be a good metaphor for the relationship. In the absence of specific projects, coalition work or a particular joint political objective, STJCers would mostly like you to act as a general resource. Such looser relationships would take up a minimal slice of your time, at an hour or two per week. Only if a more specific collaborative project could be found, one fits into both of our current set of objectives, would it become more. It's difficult to go into more specifics without them becoming irrelevant to most people, so the best thing to do is get in touch with us directly about putting something together. If you can identify a division or specific working group that you think there may be a match with, it's best to email the respective director: For Advocacy, contact Lorena Rodriguez For Policy, contact Brian Cruikshank For International Partnerships, contact Sam Boyer or Lorena Rodriguez If you know you'd like to work with STJC but have a different sort of idea about how that might work, aren't quite sure where your best fit would be, or just have general questions, you'll want to get in touch with Hilda Gutierrez.

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