Our next Democracy in Action training is on June 24 from 6:30-8:30 PM. Signup to join here. Not in DC? Join virtually!
In this critical moment, when our campuses & communities are under attack, students have the opportunity to play a central role in the anti-authoritarian movement. We know that throughout history & around the world, students have been the vanguard of successful social justice movements for freedom and democracy.
In collaboration with youth-led organizations, we’re convening weekly training sessions to hear from pro-democracy champions and learn how students can organize to protect our speech & rights on campus, and organize to create the thriving democracy our generation deserves. Pizza is included.
In collaboration with youth-led organizations, we’re convening weekly training sessions to hear from pro-democracy champions and learn how students can organize to protect our speech & rights on campus, and organize to create the thriving democracy our generation deserves. Pizza is included.
Pizza is included at trainings!
- June 17 — Meet & Greet and Textathon: To get to know each other & invite more students!
- June 24 — Democracy Movement 101: How we got here, how the democracy movement is related and connected to other student movements, and envisioning our generation’s democracy of tomorrow.
- July 1 — Organizing Under Advancing Autocracy: Lessons from student democracy movements around the world and at home through history.
- July 8 — Firewalls for Freedom & Intro to Campus Democracy Organizing: How we advocate to stop campus Administrations from complying/caving and support colleges that protect our rights & speech (using the ACLU/Amnesty’s campus Firewalls for Freedom).
- July 15 — Campus Campaign Planning I (Goal Setting): Taking our big-picture goals and applying them to campus organizing.
- July 22 — Campus Campaign Planning II (Strategy & Structure): Identifying points of influence on campus, figuring out campaign roles, and building a timeline for advocacy & organizing.
- July 29 — Campus Campaign Planning III (Outreach Planning): Building to 3.5% on campus, how to build to a kickoff event, how to mobilize students not already in campus organizing spaces, and retaining students already involved.
- August 5 — Strategic Escalation: Strategies to win protections and protect your school.
- August (Virtual) — Community-Building, Mutual Support, and Action Teams: How to structure long-lasting campaigns, create support networks between campus & community, and safely organize while being joy-centered.
No matter what issue drives students (free speech, climate, individual rights, healthcare) this training will show how these issues intersect with the struggle for our democracy and how we have to bring students together—across class, culture, and ideology—to meet the moment.
In the face of advancing autocracy, the training series & fall organizing will unify pro-democracy students in campuses across the country to resist Project 2025 and demand the just & inclusive democracy we deserve.
In the face of advancing autocracy, the training series & fall organizing will unify pro-democracy students in campuses across the country to resist Project 2025 and demand the just & inclusive democracy we deserve.
American Constitution Society • BulletProof Pride • Generation Common Good • Generation Vote • Indivisible NOVA • JStreet • NBJC • National Women's Law Center • Public Citizen • RepresentUs • Task Force for Democracy • The Workers Circle • Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice • Voters of Tomorrow
View all Democracy in Action partners here. Student & nonprofit pro-democracy organizations: apply to partner here.