News
2009
Spread the Word
January 09, 2009
On January 9, the first Friday of the spring semester, Social Change through Peace Games sponsored Spread the Word, a semester kickoff event designed to raise social awareness and generate interest and excitement for the SCtPG mission. The event consisted of a public viewing of "I Love Hip Hop in Morocco", a feature-length documentary following a determined group of young Moroccan Hip Hop artists who band together to create the country's first Hip Hop Festival. After the documentary, the crowd gathered around the stage in AFTERhours to listen to a live performance by Unconscious Logic, a socially conscious Hip Hop group from Brooklyn, N.Y. The following link opens the NU-TV coverage of the event.
2008
It's Easy Being Green
December 04, 2008
Reincarnated newspapers, garbage bags and video tapes took the catwalk by storm at afterHOURS last night for Students for Environmental Action's (SEA) third green fashion show.
Co-sponsored this year by the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) and Social Change through Peace Games (SCtPG), the K-8 Maurice J. Tobin School in Roxbury will be given the donations to fund SCtPG's PeaceMaker projects....
From Homicide to Hope: FOCUS Forum
June 18, 2008
Jack Levin, Professor and Co-Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, student Alex Alvanos '09, Co-Founder of Social Change through Peace Games, and Emmanuel Tikili, Director of Programs for the Boston TenPoint coalition, lead a forum discussion on youth violence on May 22, 2008. This presentation was a F.O.C.U.S (Forming Opportunities for Collaboration, Understanding, and Service) Forum...
Campus Compact Honors Five Students for Innovative Programs to Serve Local, Global Communities
June 04, 2008
Students from Bowdoin College, Cornell University, Northeastern University, River Parishes Community College, and the University of Minnesota have won Campus Compact's coveted Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award for creating new approaches to address social issues...
Co-founder discusses Peace Games
April 10, 2008
Peace Games doesn't have a demand problem, but rather a supply problem, and the organization needs college students' help to fix that issue, said Eric Dawson, co-founder and president of Peace Games...
2007
A Fall Fair: Carving Out Social Change
November 03, 2007
Check out the Generation Y Fall Fair, held on Halloween, where students carved pumpkins for social change. Various student groups on campus set up Halloween-themed booths to educate Northeastern students about current social issues in the world like abortion, recycling, education, global warming and food waste. Hosted by NUTV's Laura Nelson...
Fall fair educates on social change
October 29, 2007
The Krentzman Quad was lit up last night with 900 glowing jack o'lanterns - not just for their eery luminescence, but to enlighten students to injustices in the world...
Web exclusive: Peace games teach children to be non-violent
April 18, 2007
Teaching children about peace and a sense of the community was the message of Eric Dawson, president of the non-profit organization Peace Games, last week.
In the event sponsored by Northeastern's recently established student group Social Change Through Peace Games in Shillman Hall, Dawson answered questions from the audience about the organization and spoke about his journey with the group...
Commentary: World weighs shoulders of students
April 11, 2007
Does anyone else feel like the weight of the world is on their shoulders? The genocide in Darfur, global warming, the spread of HIV/AIDS, the continued rise of youth violence and homicide rates, the war in Iraq, sex trafficking and the list goes on. Doesn't anyone seriously want change?
Yes, humanity has been around for quite some time, but every day it seems we mess up more and more things. And to top it off, any time you turn on the TV all you hear about is this murderer or that rapist and the death toll in Iraq...
Huskies with Heart: Student hopes peace games bring future social change
January 24, 2007
Check out the Generation Y Fall Fair, held on Halloween, where students carved pumpkins for social change. Various student groups on campus set up Halloween-themed booths to educate Northeastern students about current social issues in the world like abortion, recycling, education, global warming and food waste. Hosted by NUTV's Laura Nelson...
