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Monday, November 09, 2009
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More than 40 Student Groups Join National Protest of Communist Policies on the Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Arlington, VA – Conservative and libertarian college students across the country coordinated a national day of activism on Monday, Nov. 9 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and raise awareness about communism.  Working with CampusReform.org and Young Americans for Liberty, the students built mock Berlin Walls at their schools to protest America’s socialistic tendencies.

ARLINGTON, VA - Lance Kennedy, a recent graduate of the University of Texas in Austin, won a $100 award on Monday, October 19, from CampusReform.org, the new social mobilization website for conservatives and libertarians on campus.  Students like Alex who expose stories of leftist abu

ARLINGTON, VA – The Young Constitutionalists of the University of Wyoming won a $1,000 grant from CampusReform.org, a new conservative social networking site, for their Constitution Day activism.

1962-65 Morton Blackwell serves as the state chairman of the Louisiana College Republicans and the Louisiana Young Republicans.  Morton then becomes executive director of the College Republicans and holds that position on and off for five and a half years under four College Republican national chairmen.

1967 Morton becomes the youth coordinator for the successful Louie Nunn for Governor of Kentucky campaign, an opportunity which enables him to create the nation’s first mass-based youth campaign effort.

1968 He uses his experience on the Nunn campaign to design and hold his first national youth leadership school, a class of twenty people whom he trained to be youth organizers.  Among these first twenty are future Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and future Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell.

Morton Blackwell began in 1960 to identify, train, and place bright young conservatives for activism in the public policy process.

He was one of the original eleven members of the Steering Committee of National Youth for Goldwater.

Barry Goldwater’s youngest elected national convention delegate in 1964, Blackwell served as the state chairman of the Louisiana College Republicans and Louisiana Young Republicans.

In 1965, he became executive director of the College Republicans and held that position on and off for five and a half years under four College Republican national chairmen.