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VOLUNTEER
in the W A M M office! Contact W A M M - click here
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
W A M M Internships
Women Against Military Madness is a peace and nonviolent feminist organization working to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression. WAMM supports the development and implementation of nonviolent solutions to the ever-changing challenges of living in a global community.
Since is founding in 1982, WAMM has been known for its creative and consistent legal nonviolent activism. WAMM and coalition partners held the first protest in the U.S. against troop deployment leading up to the Gulf War. Since then, WAMM has fought the deadly sanctions and continued bombing of Iraq. WAMM maintains weekly peace vigils in the Twin Cities area to end the occupations of Iraq and Palestine.
Currently all intership positions are unpaid.
General Student Internship
Summer 2006
General intern duties will vary in the office and may include outreach. The intern will be involved in a wide variety of activities--everything from assisting with basic administrative and office tasks such as data entry to taking a considerable amount of responsibility assisting with program logistics, research, communication, grassroots organizing and many other functions. It is impossible to escape gaining a great deal of knowledge about a grassroots organization and progressive movements while working as an intern with WAMM, as ours is a small office with limited resources, and a larger, terrific membership and active volunteers.
Requirements: Must be enrolled as full-time college student. Preference given to juniors and seniors. It will be helpful to have an academic major in any of the following areas: peace and justice, women's studies, international studies, foreign policy, political science majors. Students of color encouraged to apply. Students should share a belief in WAMM's mission of opposing militarism and global oppression.
Individual, short-term, special projects Internships
Graphic arts and communications students interested in building their portfolios.
Law students and others interested in developing experience.
To apply
Mail, fax or email a resume and cover letter to:
Mary Beaudoin
W A M M
310 East 38th Street # 225
Minneapolis, MN 55409
For more information contact W A M M.
About us: WAMM is a nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination and justice through education and empowerment of women. WAMM is hundreds of women and men empowered to make social change through volunteer activism! WAMM's purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression. WAMM has around 2100 member households, most of which are in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. We are consciously a local justice and peace organization, living our feminist principals by using a non-hierarchical organizational structure. WAMM is governed by a Steering Committee of volunteer activists who use consensus decision making. We program from the grassroots – allowing activists to form committees and act on issues based on their own passions. |
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