Tools for Organizing:

Student/Campus Organizing

Introduction:

We live on a remarkable planet that holds the extraordinary variety of human society. Unfortunately, human avarice and shortsightedness has led to a global society marred by injustice and destruction: over two billion people live in poverty, 50,000 species go extinct each year, and giant transnational corporations are expanding operations that exploit people and resources for mere short-term profit.

However, there is reason for hope. That reason is, quite simply collective political action.

The last hundred years have shown that campus activism plays a critical role in building power for progressive movements. The great movements of the Twentieth Century - civil rights, anti-war, women's rights, environmental protection - did not begin on campuses, but each got a boost from college activism that was essential to long-term success.

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