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The Success of Our National Day of Activism

By Abigail Alger, on December 28, 2009

Welcome to the best of campus reformers' activism, fall 2009 edition. While finals are upon us, CampusReform.org will share the most clever, entertaining, and effective activism events of the semester to keep your spirits high and get you ready for next semester. Think you've got a story that qualifies? Send me an email!

Rutgers

November 9 was the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Many colleges didn't mark the date, but more than 40 college groups across the country made sure it was not forgotten.

CampusReform.org and Young Americans for Liberty cosponsored a national day of activism -- and students quickly came on board. The benefits were easy to see: the idea was fun and creative, the message was important, and working as a national team of campus reformers greatly multiplied the effect of each group's efforts.

LSU

The point was simple: although the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, communism did not disappear. Campus groups used the anniversary to highlight America's slow slide to socialism. After all, our government started to nail into place each of communism's ten planks long ago.

To draw attention, they built mock Berlin Walls -- like the one from Rutgers University pictured above -- and invited others to write on them and, yes, to tear them down. Students posted photos and videos of their work online.

You can see the results for yourself. They had fun. They got attention. They shared their message. And, even better, in some instances, they infuriated their school's liberal administrators. A fun and successful day!

GWU How can you host a successful campus event like this?

2. Click here to learn how you can use CampusReform.org to make your activism more effective, and to multiply the attention you get for your efforts on and off campus.

And always remember that victory awaits students who stand up on campus. Use this site as your tool to do it.

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