Make Your Voice Heard
Campus Progress Action, part of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, works to help young people -- advocates, activists, journalists, artists, and others -- to make their voices heard on issues that matter.
Check out these sites from Campus Progress Action.
Pushback is a blog written and edited by a diverse group of progressive young people from across the country. Pushback’s goal is simple: Let young people speak for themselves, not just on stereotypically “youth-oriented” topics like music and celebrities, but on everything from healthcare to congressional races to American foreign policy.
“I’m Voting For,” an online video testimonial campaign, gives young people a platform to talk about how their personal experiences and passion for the issues driving them to the polls. While everyone is focusing on “who are you voting for?” Campus Progress Action is interested in focusing the debate on what matters most – the issues.
Check out these public education campaigns from our partner organization, Campus Progress.
Campus
Progress is a proud member of Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition of
student, faculty, and civil liberties organizations working to protect
free speech at colleges and universities and to stop measures, like the
so-called Academic Bill of Rights, that would impose government
censorship on what teachers can teach and students can learn. Members
of the coalition are committed to advocating for the rights of students
and faculty to hear and express a full range of ideas unencumbered by
political or ideological interference.
Debt
Hits Hard is Campus Progress's national campaign to promote access to
college and reduce student debt through strong and fair financial aid
policies. Working with our partners in the Campaign for College
Affordability, Campus Progress advocates for: raising federal Pell
Grants; cutting student loan interest rates; and ending wasteful
subsidies to lenders. See Campus Progress's guide to investigating
campus financial aid practices - Honest Lending, Fair Lending.
The
Campus Progress Iraq Campaign works to halt the escalation, bring a
prompt resolution to the conflict, reduce violence and suffering in
Iraq, bring our troops home, and build greater peace and security for
the United States and the world. Through local and national organizing,
advocacy, activism, and training, plus our Iraq Film project and other
events, the Iraq Campaign aims for a change of course on the war now.
Campus
Progress is an active member of the Campus Climate Challenge, a
coalition of 37 national organizations and over 500 local groups. The
Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college
campuses across the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their
schools. The Challenge is growing a generation-wide movement to stop
global warming, by reducing the pollution from our schools down to
zero, and leading our society to a clean energy future.
