We create and connect students to opportunities to take action, from the campus to the national level. In addition to promoting opportunities to take action through AIDemocracy and partner campaigns, we also support student campaigns.
Check out AIDemocracy’s 2011-12 campaign teams:
- Climate change
- Hunger
- Sex & Justice
- Security
- Be2021 (tenth anniversary of 9/11)
Here’s a helpful listof great event ideas our members have used in the past.
Opportunities to take action are listed in the posts below. In recent months our members have mobilized to speak out about:
- The tenth anniversary of 9/11, via our Be2021 campaign.
- Protecting US foreign assistance (Tell Congress young Americans support US foreign assistance)
- The US position at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa (COP17) (US gearing up for COP17)
- US funding to fight HIV/AIDS (Take action this World AIDS Day)
- US support for global food security
- Cuts in nuclear weapons spending (Get Your House Rep. to Support Cutting Spending on Nuclear Weapons TODAY!)
- US ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START)
- Speculation on food commodities (Stop Gambling Green on Grain)
- Reforming the leadership selection process of the International Monetary Institution (IMF) (Reform the IMF Leadership)
