This is to set the record straight about this project, as I keep hearing of mixed messages from students.
Ethical Action is a group of students from different courses that have formed a non profit community organisation, Ethical Action.
Ethical Action came alive in order to support an existing student event reach a wider audience, this student event is the Annual Human Rights Film Festival which forms a part of the Human Rights on Film Module. And enable young people and students to take action following being inspired by the film festival and get involved in a short film project to take place from January through to March 2012. The overall name for this project is Youth for Human Rights week. This is what is currently occurring at Roehampton University.
Saturday 10th December is the final day, with the focus being Palestine, and screening Hip Hop is Bigger Than the Occupation. All those that have attended a film screening or visited the Action Cafe (more info below) during this week will can collect a wrist band for entry to the Grey Matters Live – Youth for Human Rights Week after party at the Union Bar, Froebel Campus on Saturday night from 10pm to Midnight with performances from the Electric Soul Brothers, Mark My Word, Majestic and Logic.

In order to reach as many people as possible Ethical Action ran a Human Rights Cafe called Action Cafe, in Southlands to promote the festival informally to young people/students that were using the canteen during afternoons throughout the week. This gave us the opportunity to talk to people about their opinions on a number of issues including: Iran, Britain and the EU, Deaths in Police Custody, The New World Order, Capitalism, Obama, Australian Aboriginal Rights.

Next semester Ethical Action will be creating a series of human rights related videos to be uploaded to the Grey Matters* youtube channel. If you’re interested in getting involved in any element of this project whether its choosing the issues to cover, researching personal stories and accounts of human rights abuses, filming, editing, creating the music for the sound track to each short, promotion or organising an event to show case these in March, please get in contact.

All young people/students that have involvement in any element of the Ethical Action project are eligible for an international Youth Pass. Please email me for more information.

*Grey Matters is a informally political, current affairs student radio show, that covers a diverse range of topics with music from across the genres. Broadcast between 5 and 6pm every Monday on Fresh Air, Roehamptons radio station. To start discussions or get involved join the group:http://m.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_102015533209064&refid=7&_rdr

And it is certainly all about action at the moment:
Youth in Action, Ethical Action and Rights Camera Action form part of a wider cross campus series of activities during Youth For Human Rights Week, culminating in celebrating World Human Rights Day on 10th December.

So re-wind back a bit, as I sometimes feel with life, I am starting again with the blogging, and in order to get you to the point of which this Youth Initiative was created, I am rewinding back to last year when I started at the university.
I was employed by Southlands Methodist Trust last year to work with students predominantly across the Southlands campus but also across campus as Campaigner in Residence.

Whilst there I created a tool kit for increasing young people’s activity in campaigning right across the campaigning spectrum, another project I established during my time there was Ethical Action, a project group set up as an informal group and successful in a Youth In Action application, another was Grey Matters, a show on the student radio station.

These groups have joined together to create Youth for Human Rights Week, which is open to anyone interested in human rights, and those attending now only get the chance to get involved with creating a youtube channel for young people on human rights, but if you’re under 30 you’re eligible for an international Youthpass.

Click here for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/105999796183264/