New Orleans Alternative Spring Break:

-Session A: March 10 - 15th
-Session B: March 13 - 18th
Students from across the country converge in New Orleans for an alternative Spring Break of building our organizing skills, support a live-campaign of low-wage workers fighting for living-wages and respect at work, and enjoying the Big Easy!

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Highlights:

  • Be a part of a live campaign - what the New York Times has dubbed the “the largest labor uprising since the late 1920s”. Join a movement with working people across the nation, standing up for dignity on the job, and a wage the allows them proper nutrition, safe, livable housing, access to healthcare and education, and a brighter future for their families. 
  • Share skills with students from campuses across the country! Swap skills with students who have won concrete campaigns! Learn how to build campus coalition, turn out people to events, master organizing conversations, and more! Don’t have a campaign you’re currently working on? We’ll help you kick-start something on campus!
  • Explore one of the country's most wondrous cities with cool leaders interconnected in the global movement for justice! Amazing Music? Cultural Exploration! Action!
  • Need help getting there? We’re happy to provide fundraising support, connections to carpools, and information about need-based scholarships! 
Register for a fundraising training here! Apply for a need-based scholarship here. 

• Lodging and meals are provided with your sliding scale conference fee! Register here for more information.

Cost: $275 for all expenses on site (food, lodging, etc.). *Does not include travel to New Orleans Solidarity Immersion:

To read about the summer trip to the Dominican Republic and Haiti, click read more.



Dominican Republic and Haiti 
July 30th - August 12th
Join student organizers from all over and leaders in the movement for social justice across the Dominican Republic and Haiti for an up-close look at how our global economy and fight for change is woven together! 

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Highlights:

  • Listen and learn directly from the personal stories of organizers at the forefront of the fight for social justice on the ground in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Gain a first-hand understanding of the bigger picture of human rights in the global economy through direct testimony from workers in the factories and fields, from garment-industry to Call Centers to agriculture in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
  • Share skills with rad student organizers from around the country who have won campaigns! If they can do it, you can do it! Lots of hands-on workshops, role plays, games, discussions, and campaign planning that will jump-start your organizing into the new semester. Build alliances with a network of amazing students from campuses across the country who are fighting for change, just like you!
  • Have a whole lot of pure, simple, fun, with an amazing community of organizers in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Enjoy the fantastic music and dance scene, the natural beauty, hike, go to the beach, hang out with local families! Bachata, Merengue, Dembow! Cook delicious Dominican food with homestay families in Villa Altagracia!
  • Meet the inspiring leaders of Alta Gracia, the first ever living-wage union-made factory producing college logo apparel. This article in The Nation and this fun video made by United Students Against Sweatshops share the history, or check out this short documentary film from past trip participants. Come see for yourself how more than a decade of student worker solidarity continues to transform the Free Trade Zone and community of Villa Altagracia.
  • Stay connected! Plug in to networks that will drive this movement forward when you get home. Whether sharing ideas and advice to help each other out on calls post-trip or meeting up at regional conferences, we stay involved in the labor justice movement post-trip! 
Cost: $975 for all in-country necessities (food, lodging, interpretation, transportation). *Airfare and health insurance not included

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