In July 2019, the Bernie Sanders campaign sent an email to thousands of students, inviting them to apply for an organizing summer school. Aides had to reopen the application process three times due to mass interest, eventually capping the process in early August.“Being a good organizer is something that just doesn't happen,” said Cho. She felt similarly tense.“It was kind of a scary thing to open up and be vulnerable,” said Sloan. !New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castPress J to jump to the feed.
Apply today! 31. History shows that it’s all about grassroots organizing, and we’re just giving people the tools to make it happen.”While the campaign’s overarching efforts are largely mission-driven, its goals are ultimately quantitative: persuade as many students as possible to register to vote, and have that vote be for Sanders. Bernie’s education plan addresses the serious crisis in our education system by reducing racial and economic segregation in our public school system, attracting the best and the brightest educational professionals to teach in our classrooms, and reestablishing a positive learning environment for students in our K-12 schools. Their next course of action is to gauge how they can use the resources and power of that campaign to back the campus workers in the battle against administrative cost-cutting.In late March, as students across the country returned home indefinitely amid school closures, the national leadership of Students for Bernie brought the group back to Zoom for a series of trainings on how to build a pressure campaign. The campaign is forgoing pushing celebrities and influencers with the students, who are made up in part of Generation Z, or Zoomers, opting instead to create influencers and surrogates out of the students themselves.“If we just look at how movements happen, especially youth-led movements, from Parkland, but even Occupy, the Sunrise Movement, BLM, it’s never done by influencers,” Cho added. You’ll receive training from the Bernie 2020 campaign on how to organize on your campus.
“Thinking that just because these are Zoomers, and they are digital native, it must be influencers that launch it, history shows us differently. Homework, coupled with attending three hourlong webinar classes a week, put each student on the path to being inducted into the Students for Bernie 2020 Campus Corps, the official school-based organizing effort for Sanders’s presidential bid. The campaign’s immediate demands include providing workers with access to paid sick leave, hazard pay, and PPE. Close. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images)What Canadian Parents Should Know Before Schools ReopenCoronavirus updates: Colleges could reopen if they test students every 2 days; Fauci 'cautiously optimistic' for vaccine this yearDene-based education plan in the works following education summitTrump-endorsed GOP candidate says Chinese students should be banned from studying chemistry and physics in the USEx-'Ellen DeGeneres Show' employees claim culture of 'rampant sexual misconduct' in new report'It’s actually quite astonishing': The most dangerous hand sanitizer mistakesGwyneth Paltrow and Daughter Apple, 16, Twin in Sports Bras and Leggings During Workout SessionPelosi: GOP doesn't understand 'gravity' of pandemicKayleigh McEnany Says Election Delay Is Undemocratic — In Hong Kong, AnywayTrump Maneuvers To Protect Robert E. Lee's Name In Secretly Recorded Phone CallTrump says to 'read the manuals' when asked who told him that you can 'test too much' for COVID-19Massive search under way off California for 8 missing U.S. Marines; one deadPuerto Rico National Guard Rescues Residents Trapped by Isaias FloodwatersTrump praises Jim Jordan and Anthony Fauci after they clashed during coronavirus hearing