By Whitney Mutch
IndieGainesville is a labor of love by locals (and for locals) to protect the interests of independent businesses in Gainesville.
By Rusty Poulette
A radical mental health support group in Gainesville provides a haven for those who struggle with psychiatric conditions — such as depression and anxiety — without framing them as “illnesses.”
By Staff
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) is an international student-led campaign that seeks to increase access to medicines that are developed in university laboratories and to increase research on neglected tropical diseases. Our efforts focus on working with the Technology Transfer Officer at UF and building student, faculty and community support for our campaign.
By Julie Ludwig
The QAC is a politically motivated activist group at UF fighting for full civil and social equality for the LGBTQ community. We believe that discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity is not only unjust, but harmfully oppressive, yet the homosexual community remains one of the most marginalized communities in America today.
By Travis Pillow
The “Never Again” motto has not been taken seriously, and for decades we have overlooked human crises. We have studied, analyzed and added them to our history books, but we have not tried to ease, control or end them. Genocide, war crimes, social abuses, displaced refugees, rape: unfortunately these tragedies continue, and Human Rights Awareness [...]
By UF Amnesty International
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” -Edward Everett After semesters of relative inactivity, UF Amnesty International is back! Amnesty International is a nonprofit, non-affiliated [...]
By Joe Richard
The International Socialist Organization (ISO) is committed to building an organization that participates in the struggles for justice, liberation and ultimately for a future socialist society. The ISO has branches across the country whose members are involved in helping to fight in a number of struggles: the movement to stop war and occupation, fights against [...]
By Fine Print Staff
With President Obama promising the removal of combat troops from Iraq by 2010, we might wonder what place a peace organization has on UF campus. Yet with 17,000 troops preparing to go to Afghanistan, we must ask ourselves why our government is continuing to finance wars that have destroyed our international image while needlessly putting [...]
By Peter Laumann
Public education in Florida has been put at risk by draconian budget cuts that have put entire departments and even universities in jeopardy throughout the state. Students are not sitting idly by and have determined to voice our concerns and interests as participants in the process of deciding the future of our education. To this [...]
By Fine Print Staff
Environmentally Conscious Vegetarians, or enVeg, is a University of Florida organization that is raising awareness about the connection between meat consumption and the impact humans have on the environment. Although there are many reasons why students choose to become vegetarian or vegan, enVeg focuses on how our diet actually affects our planet’s health more than [...]