Campus Initiatives and Activism
Young America's Foundation provides conservative students with the necessary information, tools, and resources to effectively advance conservative ideas on their college on high school campus. The resources and initiatives listed below are only a few of the activism ideas that are available for young conservatives to organize across the country.
Obama: Epic Fail Fliers
Celebrate Ronald Reagan's Birthday
March Liberal Madness
9/11: Never Forget Project
No More Che Day
Freedom Week
The Campus Conservative Battleplan
The Campus Conservative Battleplan provides specific activism ideas you can organize each month of the school year including how to:
- Remember those murdered in the September 11 terrorist attacks
- Celebrate Freedom Week
- Organize a No More Che Day
- End divisive race-based programs on campus
- Adopt the Ronald Reagan Model of Campus Activism, and more!
Download the latest edition of the Campus Conservative Battleplan .
Do the job the mainstream media will refuse to do! On the anniversary of Obama's inauguration, download, personalize, and distribute the Obama: Epic Fail Fliers to show your campus community the negative impact of his policies. Be sure to download all three fliers.
Club 100 students can receive 10 points for posting and distributing these fliers. Photos and/or video are required to receive points. If you are not a member, sign up now!
Ronald Reagan is considered one of America’s greatest presidents. Sadly, college and high school faculty and administrators rarely share an optimistic or uplifting view of Ronald Reagan. Furthermore, many assigned text books attack Ronald Reagan and his presidency. One widely distributed text book, A History of the U.S., describes Reagan’s presidency as "budget-busting, criminal-ridden, [and] trigger-happy." A leading national guide for teachers calls Reagan "a cheerleader for selfishness."
President Reagan, in many of his speeches, often touched on the importance of individual freedom, limited government, and free markets and even warned against political correctness. You can easily post fliers or distribute leaflets featuring quotes by President Reagan. You may want to obtain one of the following books: In the Words of Ronald Reagan by his son, Michael, or The Quotable Ronald Reagan by Peter Hannaford. In addition to posting flyers, your club may choose to:
Host a table in the student union to distribute literature on President Reagan
Schedule a film festival showcasing President Reagan’s most popular speeches or movies.
Celebrate his birthday with a party for your club members
You can also distribute these free Reagan Reality fliers: Reagan Reality #6 , Reagan Reality #20 , Reagan Reality #67 , and Reagan Reality #92 .
Your club can dedicate a week towards the end of March to highlight the most outrageous statements made by liberal leaders. The Left never hesitates to remind the public when a conservative misspeaks. Yet many outlandish remarks made by prominent liberals go unnoticed by the general public and the media.
You can use a bracket system similar to the NCAA Basketball Tournament to highlight sixteen of the most radical liberals and their extreme statements. This activity will encourage participation from other students and, if marketed correctly, build anticipation as to who will be voted by students as the "maddest" liberal in the country.
Young America’s Foundation has already compiled a list of sixteen liberal leaders and their top "moment of madness."
Begin by reserving a table in the student union or another high traffic area on campus for the entire week. Announce your plans to the local and campus press and advertise that students can come by your location to begin voting.
Create your bracket system on a dry erase board, chalk board, or poster board that can be displayed by your table. On each bracket, include the name and the picture of each leftist. Consider purchasing Velcro strips that can be attached to each name to allow you to move the name to the next series of brackets
Each year Young America's Foundation helps students across the country properly remember the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks through our 9/11: Never Forget Project. Young America's Foundation began this program in 2003 when we discovered that most college campuses were either completely ignoring the anniversary or holding a politically correct event instead.
You can unite your campus community to properly remember the victims of the terrorist attacks by taking part in Younbg America's Foundation's 9/11: Never Forget Project.
Young America's Foundation will provide you with ideas and information on how to:
- Establish an American flag memorial on campus consisting of 2,977 American flags representing each person tragically killed in the terrorist attacks.
- Schedule a campus-wide moment of silence or prayer on September 11, at 9:11 a.m.
- Host a conservative speaker at your school
- Provide you with free buttons, posters and other materials to distribute on the anniversary.
Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose Communism on countries throughout Latin America, Che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men, women, and children.
For decades, the Left tried to glorify murderers and thugs like Lenin, Mao, and even Stalin. They are discredited today because people know about their evil deeds. Che is more obscure. He is one notorious figure who is idolized by the Left and hailed as a "hero," yet most students never learn the truth about his cult of violence.
Use the anniversary of Che's death on October 9 to educate the campus community about Che's atrocities. Young America's Foundation can provide you with free copies of our "Victims of Che Guevara" poster and other downloadable fliers.
For the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, rally students on your campus to stand up to those who want to restrict freedom by giving more power to the federal government by tearing down a mock Berlin Wall on your campus.
The Obama administration, professors, and campus leftists endless preach government control to sove policy problems. Your group can warn students about the endless misery, rationing, and despair that results from socialist policies and question why many leftist students and professors still advocate these concepts.
Learn more about what you can do during Freedom Week.
Sadly, Christmas has become politically incorrect. "Holiday break" has replaced "Christmas break." The word "Christmas" is also absent in most official university literature. Christmas trees have been removed from campus administration buildings, and campus choirs have been banned from singing religious Christmas carols.
Your club can draw attention to your school’s efforts to erase Christmas by launching a Christmas Tree Drop. Read more about it in the Campus Conservative Battleplan .
