IDEAS & RESOURCES FOR CAMPUS ACTIVISTS

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Things Your Organization Can Do

Holding fun, educational, and creative actions on our campuses are key to building our campaigns. From mock awards ceremonies to Guitar Hero! Fundraising parties, the more inclusive your actions are, the more appealing your campaign will look.

Support Local Workers’ Rights Campaigns

• Contact the local unions representing the workers on your campus or in the surrounding community to see if there are any upcoming actions or events in which your group can participate.
• Plan a solidarity action with local unions to support workers who are standing up for their rights in their workplace.
• Organize an action or Worker’s Rights Board Hearing with the local Jobs with Justice coalition.
• Hold a candlelight vigil in support of workers.

Support Campus-Based Campaigns

• Contact the local unions representing the workers on your campus to see if there are any upcoming actions or events in which your group can participate.
• Get involved with USAS’s Designated Supplier Program campaign. To learn more about this campaign, check out www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org.
• Get involved with the Campaign for Fair Food and the fight to ensure Burger King respects farmworker’s rights. Learn more about this at www.sfalliance.org
• Identify and contact other constituencies on your campus (campus ministry, campus unions, area Central Labor Council, etc.) to organize issue discussions and actions on campus and participate in the Week of Action.
• Pass a student government resolution supporting living wages and the right to organize and bargain collectively for all campus workers.
• Launch a campus living wage campaign.  

Organize Educational Events, Tactics, and Activities

• Set up a GrassRoot Organizing Weekend (GROW) in your campus. This training will teach the basics of building student power, strategy, planning, leadership development, volun teer recrui tment and direct ac tion organizing. For more information go to www.usstudents.org
• Organize a teach-in with a couple of speakers to educate students about the issues. This could be a lead-up effort or your action; it depends on where your campaign and campus is (contact the SLAP coordinator for help identifying the speakers, etc.).
• Get articles and editorials in the school paper about the issue and announcing the Week of Action: titles like “How does our school treat its workers?” or “Our school supports sweatshops” or “Do students believe that economic mobility is possible for our generation?”
• Set-up a table of info, including leaflets about the Week of Action, fact sheets, etc.
• Participate in an interfaith service that draws attention to issues of workers’ rights.
• Host a screening of labor films and documentaries (ie. “At the River I Stand,” a documentary about the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, the Justice at Smithfield documentary, or the Coalition of Imokolee Workers PBS NOW Documentary http://www.sfalliance.org/video.html
• Make March 28 th to April 4 th Student Labor Solidarity Week on campus: contacting progressive professors in political science, sociology, women’s studies, African-American studies, Chicana/o Studies, Latin American Studies, etc. to talk about it in classes.

 Stop the legal attacks on worker’s rights!

• Enter the “There out to be a law” video contest at www.efcavideo.com and share your campus stories. There will be 10 prize winners and 3 grand prize winners.
• Organize a forum on campus to educate students on attempts to silence free speech in this country and worker’s rights to organize by powerful interests in this country. Learn more about this at http://www.jwj.org/campaigns/freespeech.html