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GUEST: Felicia Gustin, co-Author of “Turning the Tide,” and co-director of Speak Out

As the school year begins for many university students across the nation, a new report entitled, “Turning the Tide: Challenging the Right on Campus,” has just been released by Speak Out and the Oakland Institute. Co-authored by Anuradha Mittal and Felicia Gustin and featuring a foreword by people’s historian Howard Zinn, “Turning the Tide,” calls for a broad-based, progressive movement on college campuses to counter the ever emerging college conservative movement. The report analyses the history and strategies employed by the right in order to gain political influence among students. College Republicans is a growing organization and has increased its total membership three-fold to over 120,000 members on over a thousand college campuses. Over the course of a decade, conservative opinions are increasingly finding favor among college freshmen. According to a 2003 survey sponsored by the American Council of Education, 53 percent of college freshman favored ending affirmative action, while only 55 percent favored reproductive rights, down from two-thirds in 1992. “Turning the Tide,” concludes by presenting options on how to construct a framework for progressive organizing on college campuses.

For more information, visit www.speakoutnow.org.

Download the report here:
http://www.campusactivism.org/server-new/uploads/turningthetide.pdf

To order a copy of Turning the Tide, send $10 check or money order (includes shipping & handling) along with your name and address to:

Speak Out
PO Box 99096
Emeryville CA 94662

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510-601-0182.

Bulk copies of the report are also available by contacting Speak Out.