On the Front Lines: How Campus Organizing Can Inform Movements Today - Non Profit News

On the Front Lines: How Campus Organizing Can Inform Movements Today - Non Profit News

Credit: Kefr4000 on Wikimedia Often in US history, student movements have played a crucial role in helping spark movements for nationwide change. In the 1960s and early 1970s, for example, student demonstrations against the Vietnam War played a leading role in building a mass antiwar movement, which ultimately led politicians to withdraw US forces in 1973. Last year, campus organizing drew national attention to bombing and military attacks by Is…