Get Involved
What can YOU do?
Less than 5 minutes:
1. SIGN and SHARE our Change.org petition: Change.org Petition
2. EMAIL AND CALL: Student Council Representatives, President Teresa Sullivan and Board of Visitors – see Callswarm blog post here.
3. SHARE any and all updates on your facebook–a Hunger Strike is just a group of hungry people unless the world knows about it. Simply share your support of the campaign and the link:livingwageatuva.org
4. FINALLY, if you know anyone in media outlets or have connections to large blogs/websites/news outlets–PLEASE tell them about what is happening at the University of Virginia
Feeling a little more committed?:
1. VISIT us at our site in front of the Rotunda! We are there every day from 10AM-5Pm with daily rallies at 12PM. Stop by even if just for an hour and sit/study/hold a sign. Just BE PRESENT. See our full schedule here.
2. If you can’t be physically with us and you feel able/willing, consider DONATING to the #UVAHungerStrike so we can buy things like posterboard, markers, and other necessary Hunger Strike equipment.
If the button does not work, please use this link to send a secure PayPal transfer.
Thank you!
I want to thank you for your courage! What you are doig is needed and will be rewarded. As the Pastor of First Baptist Church know we are praying and working with you.
See you at 10am.
Thanks for checking out our website. It’s true that no UVa economics professors are signatories of our faculty petition; UVa’s econ department is currently pretty solidly neoliberal/free-market in its theoretical orientation. However, there are plenty of economists whose work does support our core belief that raising the wages of the lowest-paid workers is beneficial not only to those workers, but to the organizations which employ them and the communities in which they live (see, for example, the work of former UVa professor Luis Fernando Medina, Harvard professor Richard Freeman, and Nobel Laureate in Economics Dr. Robert Solow.) We certainly don’t want to hurt low-wage workers, and we’ve thought long and hard about the economic implications of the changes that we’re advocating. For further info, please see our research document “Keeping Our Promises.”
I am a low wage UVA employee who appreciates what your doing but has some issues with your campaign. It is causing some problems for us low paid workers. Please check your e-mail where I went in to more detail. Thank you
You guys are phenomenal! I participated in the Living Wage Campaign at DePaul University 2010-2011, and stand in solidarity with your hunger strike and campaign.
Please contact me if there’s anything we can do at DePaul.
Pamela Barrientos
DePaul 2012