Democracy Matters Social Justice Organizing

Create and lead a non-partisan Democracy Matters (DM) club on your own campus to register voters and to educate and mobilize students on issues like voter suppression, voting rights, and getting big money out of politics. Link these "democracy" issues to other causes including climate change, racial justice, poverty, the cost of higher education, gun violence, reproductive choice etc. Lobby politicians, create campus coalitions with other clubs, celebrate Black and Women's history months, Earth day, enlist the support fof faculty and others., and

Since 2001, on hundreds on campuses throughout the country, DM students have been creating on-campus programming including speaker panels and "pizza and politics" discussions, poetry slams, film screenings, poster campaigns, interactive tabling, open mics, and more. DM clubs reach out to elected officials at the local, state and national level with lobby visits, letter writing,petition campaigns to advocate for social justice policies and social change, and they join with others to push back against attacks on their fundamental rights and on democracy.

DM supports this internship with a $500 stipend each semester, on-going training and mentoring by experienced staff, an annual student conference, dialogue with interns on other campuses, materials like banners, pins, stickers, monthly ENews and bi-weekly information bulletins, connections with local and national social justice organizations, and much more.

DM interns learn leadership and organizing skills that enable them to make a difference now and and in the future, working with others to create a more fair and inclusive democracy. We join Martin Luther King in believeing "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

ANY COLLEGE CAMPUS In the UNITED STATES IS ELIGIBLE!