Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Atlanta, Georgia 1963. SNCC set the stage for a Southern youth movement that would rock the national civil rights movement with civil disobedience actions across the South.
Campus Community Solidarity Campaigns
The Campus Community Solidarity Campaigns (CCSC) student committee engages in campaigns supporting various workers on college campuses. USASers engaged in the CCSC committee have won fair working conditions, rehirings of unjustly fired workers, new union representation and much more for professors, food service workers and many more hard working members of the campus community.
Our Movement Today
In April, we are commemorating the history of the youth and worker movement by high lighting the struggles and victories of the South. From the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 in North Carolina, to the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike that marked the untimely assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968, students across the nation acknowledge those individuals and the successes of their movements so that students today may work to build on them to continue the fight for justice on our campuses.
Throughout this month, schools from the University of California, Berkley to the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, stand together to reflect on the 1960s fight for people of color and the working poor and to continue the fight in solidarity with campus workers and the 99% across the nation. Check out our first ever Southern Youth Organizer Retreat and see below for the latest actions and keep checking in for more to come!
Recent News:
Join the campaign:
- OUR VANDERBILT: Vanderbilt Workers and Students Take a Stand Posted on: May 1, 2012
Photo Credit to OUR Vanderbilt Students with Occupy Vanderbilt stand with campus workers as they invite President Zeppos to dine with them and get a real and honest view... - TAKE ACTION: Stop the Attack on Santa Clara University Workers! Posted on: April 13, 2012
An urgent message from the USAS affiliate, Labor Action Committee, at Santa Clara University: Santa Clara University facilities workers are undergoing a brutal contract fight to save their healthcare and... - "The Numbers Said It All" - Northeastern Chartwells Workers Win Union Posted on: April 13, 2012
Northeastern workers celebrate as they announce that they’ve won their union. Photo credit to The Huntington News. It’s official. Chartwells workers at Northeastern University have won the union they fought... - UW student and worker coalition launches campaign to win respect for campus custodians Posted on: April 11, 2012
Today, members of University of Washington United Students Against Sweatshops and other students teamed up with faculty and custodians to launch a campaign to mobilize the campus community in support... - UNC Workers and Students take on SB575 Posted on: April 6, 2012
“It will make it easier to get rid of us; they can say they don’t need you anymore,” says Mary Farrar, a UNC-Chapel Hill housekeeper from Pittsboro. She was among...
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Student Action with Workers (SAW) host a Teach In to fight alongside workers to stop SB 575- http://stopsb575.wordpress.com/
UCBerkeley USAS affiliate, Labor Justice Project (LJP), hosts a Day of Action on April 4th to support workers at UCB’s International House who were under threat of being outsourced. The administration recently has pledged to not outsource so now it’s up to workers represented by AFSCME 3299 and students to hold them to it. Read more about their action in The Daily Californian.
University of Miami Chartwells’ workers speak out against abuse and speak up to demand a union for UM workers. USAS affiliate, Students Toward a New Democracy (S.T.A.N.D.), host a screening of “At the River I Stand” that tells the story of the Memphis Sanitation Worker Strike that set off a nation wide movement for people of color and the working poor. Cornel West has their back and so does the campus paper.
The Worker Student Alliance, the International Arts Exchange, Sigma Lambda Rho Inc., Alpha Phi Alpha Inc., the Black Student Organization, the Africana Studies Dept., and professors at William and Mary in Virginia all came together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy. Check out this video for a peek at the April 4th action at William and Mary.
