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About wts

our approach to fighting for democracy consists of action, lobbying, and civic education on national and local levels.

our approach to change

action & demonstration

We, the students, believe in the power and strength of youth voices when we unite with a common goal. We believe that when our constitutional rights are under threat--when our friends live in fear of deportation without due process, when our freedom of speech is compromised by the silencing of news sources, universities, and opposing voices, when rights and laws foundational to our country are put on trial--it is our imperative to unite with students across the entire country, regardless of political party, state, or differing beliefs on specific issues to fight for our democracy, country, friends, and future. By taking action in the form of nonpartisan, peaceful, large-scale walkouts and demonstrations, both locally and nationally, we demand that our voices be heard by changemakers and those in power. Peaceful protest is fundamental to democracy and our country's history throughout almost every movement for justice and rights, and we proudly carry the legacy of peaceful protest forward to our generation. We organize and demonstrate not to oppose America; on the contrary, we fight to protect its foundational values. We fight for the country we will inherit.

civic education

The words that make up the US constitution are the foundation of the American right to dissent. When these words are screamed over by those in political power, it becomes our generation’s responsibility to ensure that such words are still taught, learned, and understood. Knowledge and information is our power–unless we know our rights, our country’s laws, our constitution, federal and local systems, understand the current political atmosphere–we can’t truly fight against it. The erosion of the US constitution depends on our generation’s ignorance; hence, through precise, widespread civic education, we intend to ensure that such ignorance is understood, unraveled, and denounced. We, the students, are greater than ignorance. We the Students will open school clubs in schools across the country, teaching topics such as the contents of the US constitution, the legislative process, effective lobbying and dissent, and power mapping in order to arm our generation with the intellectual tools to stand up for its future--topics that social study curriculums tend to omit. In order to properly act, it’s important that students know exactly what is going on legislatively on a local and national level, or the political changes and events happening around us currently. We pledge to inform each and every inquisitive and interested student of the power hidden from them, and until that feat is realized, we will continue working towards it.

lobbying

Being American means that access to legislative change is a power is our constitutional right, and we believe that it's our responsibility as young Americans to do our part in holding our government accountable. As a nonpartisan nonprofit, our objective in lobbying is solely the pursuit of our human and constitutional rights. That said, we understand that the legislative wave of policy and law which seeks to undermine our constitution disproportionately affects different parts of the country; that’s why our lobbying efforts focus on states and cities under greater threat of change to undermine the rule of law.  The right to influence and fight for local policy change is foundational to America, and we fight to maintain this right both in the policy we’re fighting for and inherently by utilizing the right.

the national team

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jake Munzaa

Treasurer- california
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migdalia lopez

Communications Director & Ohio lead
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ariel Segura

Secratary - New York
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